Format:
1 online resource (609 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780203011959
Content:
Completely updated and expanded, this beautifully illustrated third edition draws on a wealth of sources to chart the influence and persistence of Ancient Egyptian design in the West over the last two thousand years
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Cover -- THE EGYPTIAN REVIVAL: Ancient Egypt as the Inspiration for Design Motifs in the West -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Argument -- Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER I Egypt and Europe -- The Idea of Egypt in the European Mind -- The Isiac Religion -- The Absorption of Egyptian Religion into the Græco-Roman World -- Obelisks -- The Isæum Campense -- Pyramids -- Epilogue -- CHAPTER II Some Manifestations of Egyptianisms from the Time of Trajan to the Early Renaissance Period -- Introduction -- The Villa Adriana at Tivoli -- Egypt, Rome, and the Emperors -- The Reality of Egypt in Recession -- The Transformation of Isis -- The Proto-Revival and the Survival of Egyptian and Egyptianising Artefacts -- CHAPTER III Further Manifestations with Egyptian Connotations in Europe from the Renaissance to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century -- The Mensa Isiaca -- Records and Drawings -- Egyptianisms in Design -- The Hermetic Tradition -- Some Manifestations of Egyptiana -- Travellers and Speculators -- Bernini -- The French Connection -- CHAPTER IV Egyptian Elements in Eighteenth- Century Europe to the Time of Piranesi -- Explorers of the Eighteenth Century -- Further Baroque Themes -- The Search for Stereometrical Purity -- The Individual Contribution of Giovanni Battista Piranesi -- The Legacy of Piranesi -- CHAPTER V The Egyptian Revival from the Time of Piranesi until the Napoleonic Campaigns in Egypt -- Introduction -- The Tomb and Egyptianising Forms -- Egyptianisms in Design before the Impact of Denon and the Description -- The Invasion -- CHAPTER VI The Egyptian Revival after the Napoleonic Campaigns in Egypt -- Introduction -- Denon -- Thomas Hope and the Neo-Classical Use of Egyptianisms -- The Description and the Glorification of Napoléon -- Freemasonry
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Furniture Design, and Other Egyptianising Manifestations -- CHAPTER VII Applications of the Egyptian Style -- Introduction: Die Zauberflöte -- Stage-Designs and Mozart -- The Commercial Picturesque and the Adoption of Egyptian Forms -- Other Egyptianising Designs -- CHAPTER VIII The Egyptian Revival in Funerary Architecture -- Introduction -- Funerary Exemplars -- The New Cemeteries -- Pugin -- Commemorative Egyptianisms -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER IX Aspects of the Egyptian Revival in the Later Part of the Nineteenth Century -- Introduction -- Travellers and Scholars -- The Egyptian Revival in the Hands of Serious Egyptologists -- The Individual Contribution of Alexander 'Greek' Thomson -- The Victorian Vision of Egypt -- Eclecticism and Design -- CHAPTER X The Egyptian Revival in the Twentieth Century -- Introduction -- Egyptianising Architecture from 1900 to 1922 -- Tutankhamun and Art-Déco -- Later Developments -- Epilogue -- CHAPTER XI A Postscript -- Introduction -- The Longevity of Nilotic Themes -- Afterword -- SELECT GLOSSARY -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Additional Edition:
Print version Curl, James Stevens The Egyptian Revival Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2005 ISBN 9780415361194
Language:
English
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