Memory and Modernity: Viollet-Le-Duc at Vézelay

by Kevin D. Murphy and Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc

Memory and Modernity focuses on the first project of the renowned nineteenth-century French architect and theorist Eug ne-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, the restoration of the Romanesque church of the Madeleine at V zelay in Burgundy. This is the first book-length study to approach the work of Viollet-le-Duc from the perspective of institutional and social history.

Kevin D. Murphy situates the V zelay restoration project within the government...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027101850X
• ISBN13: 9780271018508
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"