The Tyranny Of Straight Line: Mapping Modern Paris Min Kyung Lee Yale University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Arts Art General

A Revolutionary Study Of Nineteenth-Century Parisian Cartography And Its Role In Shaping Modern Conception Space Maps Are Rarely Given The Same Attention As Other Print Media Or Art Forms Urban History Author Min Kyung Lee Shows Their Rich Potential This Lavishly Illustrated Which Brings Together Archival Materials Along With Drawings Paintings She Works Across Disciplines To Examine Mapping Practices Development Paris Transformative That Had On City’s Modernization Investigates Paris’s Formation City Ultimately Framing Practice Catalyst For Emergence New Spatial Compositional Theories Beginning An Examination Emblematic Plan Napoléon Iii Gave Prefect Seine Georges-Eugène Haussmann 1853 Explores Significance Map Itself Means Production Through Surveying Methods Use Reception By Architects Engineers Administrators Place Visual Culture At Heart Exploration Is Focus Orthography Architecture Quality Exactitude Precise Grid Structure Orthographic Plans Evinced Sense Objectivity Yet It Was Not Without Political Context Social Consequences Demonstrates Throughout Σελίδες: 208 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0701 Διαστάσεις: 21 6X21 6Cm