"During the nineteenth century, a change developed in the way architectural objects from the distant past were viewed by contemporaries. Such edifices, be they churches, castles, chapels or various other buildings, were not only admired for their aesthetic values, but also for the role they played in ancient times, and their role as reminders of important events from the national past. Architectural heritage often was (and still is) an important element of nation building. Authors address the process of building national myths around certain architectural objects. National narratives are questioned, as is the position architectural heritage played in the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries"--
During the nineteenth century, a change developed in the way architectural objects from the distant past were viewed by contemporaries. Such edifices, be they churches, castles, chapels or various other buildings, were not only admired for their aesthetic values, but also for the role they played in ancient times, and their role as reminders of important events from the national past. Architectural heritage often was (and still is) an important element of nation building. Authors address the process of building national myths around certain architectural objects. National narratives are questioned, as is the position architectural heritage played in the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries.
Recenzijos
The book Forging Architectural Tradition is an excellent contribution for anyone interested in the creation of national narratives around architectural buildings. It is suitable for architects, art historians, historians, sociologists, cultural researchers, and the general cultural public, as well as anyone interested in the national narratives of small nations. The topics explored in the book should not be viewed as a part of the distant past but as still current as the historical processes described in the book can help us deal with problems related to the politicization of heritage that is still evident today. Prostor
The scholarly essays in this book present a sweeping panorama of this fascinating development based on new research, otherwise virtually inaccessible in English. József Sisa, Institute of Art History, ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, Hungary
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction: Forging Architectural Tradition
Aleksander upienko
Part I: Architectural Conservation and National Narratives
Chapter
1. The Cathedral of Citizenship: Race and National Identity in
Eugčne Viollet-le-Ducs Work and Discourse
Bérénice Gaussuin
Chapter
2. Identity Written in Stone?: Gothicising Renovation of Estonian
Churches at a Second Glance
Kristina Jõekalda
Chapter
3. Architecture as a Weapon: The Gothic and the National Ideal in
Nineteenth-Century Polish Discourse
Aleksander upienko
Chapter
4. Before and After Emile-André Lecomte du Nou’ or the Birth of
National Style in Romanian Architecture
Anda-Lucia Spānu
Chapter
5. On the Articulation and Popularization of Christian Built
Heritage: Representing National Continuity in Nineteenth-Century Athens
Georgios Karatzas
Part II: Styles for the Nation and State
Chapter
6. Creating a Monument to Kaiser Wilhelm I in Berlin: Tensions
between National, Prussian and Dynastic Identities
Douglas Klahr
Chapter
7. History, National Identity and Architecture in the Last Royal
Palaces in Europe (18611930): Turin, Budapest, Bucharest
Paolo Cornaglia
Chapter
8. Renaissance Architecture and the Search for the Hungarian
National Style in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Gįbor György Papp
Chapter
9. Vernacular Versus Historical: National Style(s) in the
Architecture of Austro-Hungarian Croatia
Dragan Damjanovi
Part III: Appropriation of Heritage(s)
Chapter
10. Architectural Heritage in the National Discourse of the
Nineteenth Century Russia: Kazan Antiquities
Gulchachak Nugmanova
Chapter
11. Hungarian Nation-Building and the Use of Medieval Archaeology:
Interpreting the Székesfehérvįr Excavations in the Nineteenth Century
Andrea Kocsis
Chapter
12. Architectural Heritage of Silesia in the Purview of Prussian
History (17401918)
Monika Ewa Adamska
Chapter
13. Madonna del Pascolo: Ruthenian Heritage in the Baroque Rome and
the Development of the National Church of the Ukrainians, 1640s1960s
Anatole Upart
Afterword: For the Glory of Nation: Architectural Heritage in
Nineteenth-Century Europe
Dragan Damjanovi
Index
Dragan Damjanovi works as a full professor at the Art History Department, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia, teaching and researching history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Croatian and European art and architecture.
