Gottfried Semper and the problem of historicism

HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
DEDICATION......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 8
FIGURES......Page 12
PROLEGOMENON......Page 16
INTRODUCTION GOTTFRIED SEMPER: TEXTS AND INTERPRETATIONS......Page 22
SEMPER’S WRITINGS......Page 24
The Early Writings......Page 26
The London Writings......Page 27
The Mature Writings......Page 30
The Dresden School......Page 33
Semper’s “Return from the Second Exile”......Page 35
APPROACH......Page 37
PART I TOWARDS APOETICS OF ARCHITECTURE......Page 42
1: THE CULT OF ORIGINS......Page 44
UNIVERSAL ORIGINS: LAUGIER AND THE PRIMITIVE HUT......Page 45
HISTORICAL ORIGINS: QUATREMÈRE DE QUINCY AND THE CARACTÈRE RELATIF......Page 50
RITUAL ORIGINS: GUSTAV KLEMM AND THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF ART......Page 57
2: THE DOCTRINE OF IMITATION......Page 62
IDEAL IMITATION: QUATREMÈRE DE QUINCY AND LA BELLE NATURE......Page 63
ORGANIC IMITATION: GOETHE, SCHLEGEL, AND SCHAFFENDE NATUR......Page 67
TECTONIC IMITATION: KARL BÖTTICHER AND THE AUTONOMY OF FORM......Page 72
THE PRIMITIVE HUT REBUILT......Page 79
IMITATION REDEFINED......Page 87
Mimesis......Page 90
Praxis......Page 92
Mythos......Page 93
Poiesis......Page 94
PART II  PRACTICAL AESTHETICS......Page 100
4: SEMPER AND PRACTICAL AESTHETICS......Page 102
THE THEORY OF FORMAL BEAUTY......Page 103
THE THEORY OF SYMBOLIC FORM AND THE AESTHETIC EVOLUTION OF ART......Page 117
THE FORMULA FOR STYLE......Page 122
5: THE COMPARATIVE METHOD......Page 129
COMPARATIVE ARCHITECTURE......Page 130
COMPARATIVE ANATOMY......Page 138
COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS......Page 148
6: TOWARDS A METHOD OF INVENTING......Page 152
COMPARISON AS EXPERIMENT: COMTE AND LA PHYSIQUE SOCIALE......Page 153
POIESIS AND PRODUCTION IN SEMPER’S METHOD OF INVENTING......Page 157
PART III THE APORIAS OF HISTORICISM......Page 162
7: SEMPER AND THE “STYLE OF OUR TIME”......Page 164
THE “DILEMMA OF STYLE”......Page 165
SEMPER: STYLE AS RESULT......Page 169
THE NECESSITY FOR DISINTEGRATION AND THE NEW SYNTHESIS OF ART......Page 173
FROM GESCHICHTEN TO GESCHICHTE: THE ORGANIC UNITY OF HISTORY......Page 177
THE ARTWORK OF THE FUTURE......Page 183
THE FUTURE AS A WORK OF ART......Page 185
9: BETWEEN POETICS AND PRACTICAL AESTHETICS......Page 190
WILHELM DILTHEY: HISTORICITY AND HISTORICISM......Page 191
SEMPER AND THE QUESTION OF METHOD: A CONCLUSION......Page 195
EPILOGUE......Page 204
PROLEGOMENON......Page 208
INTRODUCTION......Page 209
THE CULT OF ORIGIN......Page 214
THE DOCTRINE OF IMITATION......Page 219
SEMPER AND THE POETICS OF ARCHITECTURE......Page 225
SEMPER AND PRACTICAL AESTHETICS......Page 231
THE COMPARATIVE METHOD......Page 239
TOWARDS A METHOD OF INVENTING......Page 247
SEMPER AND THE “STYLE OF OUR TIME”......Page 251
HISTORY AND HISTORICISM......Page 254
BETWEEN POETIC SANDPRACTICAL AESTHETICS......Page 258
EPILOGUE......Page 262
SELECTED SEMPER BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 264
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 268
INDEX......Page 284