Open AccessHeteronomic Historicism
Author(s) -
Mari Hvattum
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
architectural histories
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 2050-5833
DOI - 10.5334/ah.216
Subject(s) - historicism , architecture , classicism , exhibition , hegemony , history of architecture , modernity , art history , field (mathematics) , aesthetics , history , art , literature , philosophy , visual arts , epistemology , law , politics , political science , mathematics , pure mathematics
If classical architecture from Vitruvius to Winckelmann had been characterized by firmness, fixity, and ‘quiet grandeur’, the 19th-century monument stood anything but still. Architecture in the 19th century moved at a rapid pace, disseminated in the form of archaeological fragments, exhibition displays, texts, and images. One of the most striking examples of this newfound mobility is the proliferation of architectural images distributed by the new illustrated press. Presenting the old and the new, the high and the low, the local and the global alongside each other, the new media challenged the hegemony of classicism and opened up a new, heteronomic field of architectural expression and deliberation. Using the mid 19th-century public press as a point of departure, this essay addresses historicist attempts to legitimize architecture in an age when even monuments seemed to move