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First printing. Translation by James Emmons of "Étienne-Louis Boullée, 1728-1799, de l'architecture classique à l'architecture révolutionnaire" (Arts et métiers graphiques, 1969). Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", shows moderate wear, with very mildly bumped outside corners. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. This work contains 120 b&w illustrations, as well as endnotes, glossary, chronology of the life of Boullée, selected bibliography, and an index. Price of $3.95 appears in upper outside corner of front cover. 128 pages."Boullée's work provides, as a matter of fact, some particularly illuminating insights into that permanent revolution, that great movement of ideas, that violent uprush of imagination which marked the history of the arts in the latter half of the eighteenth century. It helps us to understand how the backward-looking aesthetic of the champions of a return to antiquity was transformed into a forward-looking asethetic which is not unrelated to… Read More
