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LEADER: 02478cam a2200301 i 4500
001 2014019940
003 DLC
005 20150621074122.0
008 140520s2014 ilua b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2014019940
020 $a9780226191805 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a022619180X (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $z9780226191942 (e-book)
040 $aICU/DLC$beng$cICU$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aNA440$b.M87 2014
082 00 $a723/.5$223
100 1 $aMurray, Stephen,$d1945-$eauthor.
245 10 $aPlotting gothic /$cStephen Murray.
264 1 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c2014.
300 $ax, 290 pages :$billustrations ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThree eyewitnesses of Gothic. Villard de Honnecourt: ymagier and interlocutor ; Possessing Villard ; The role of the interlocutor in the Villard enterprise ; Animating the artifact ; Animating the beholder ; Controlling the artifact ; Conclusion: deceit and desire in the Villard enterprise ; Gervase of Canterbury: cronicus and logistics man ; Storytelling ; Mnemonics: remembering the old ; The means of production: controlling the new ; Old and new reconciled ; Apocryphal storytelling: a building that "speaks" ; Conclusion: signs, miracles, and illusionism ; Suger, abbot of S-Denis, and the rhetoric of persuasion: manipulating reality and producing meaning ; Rhetorical structure of de consecratione: manipulated dialectic ; Production of the text: from oral to written ; Making connections ; Production of the new church, production of salvation ; Apocryphal stories ; Conclusion: the abbot who spoke the building -- Staking out the plot. Interlocutor and monument ; Material contexts: the means of production ; How on earth did they do that? ; Economic means ; Reading the signs: construction history ; The production of meaning ; Similitude to nature; local roots ; Similitude to other buildings ; Modernism and reason ; An image of heaven ; Conclusion -- Animating the plot. Picturing the three agents of construction ; The cathedral as object of desire ; Triangulating desire ; The gap between vision and realization ; Compression and expansion: plotting ; My desire ; Conclusion: Gothic plots' synchronic, diachronic, and spatial.
650 0 $aArchitecture, Gothic.
650 0 $aArchitecture, Gothic$xSocial aspects.