Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
Named Person: | Victor Hugo; Charles Meryon; Victor Pyanet; Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc |
---|---|
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael Camille |
ISBN: | 9780226092454 0226092453 |
OCLC Number: | 517430770 |
Description: | xvii, 439 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Pt. I. Restoration. Monsters of Reason: The Gargoyles of Viollet-le-Duc -- Monsters of Stone: The Gargoyles of Victor Joseph Pyanet -- Monsters of Romanticism: The Gargoyles of Victor Hugo -- Monsters of Race: The Gargoyles of Science -- Monsters of Revolution: The Gargoyles of Politics -- Epilogue to Part I: The Gargoyles Restored (1864) -- pt. II. Reproduction. Monsters of Melancholy: The Gargoyles of Charles Méryon -- Monsters of Light: The Gargoyles of Photographers -- Monsters of Sex: The Gargoyles of Gender -- Monsters of the Media: The Gargoyles in the Twentieth Century -- Epilogue to Part II: The Gargoyles Restored Again (2000) -- Appendix: The Chimeras (a List and Photographic Survey). |
Responsibility: | Michael Camille. |
More information: |
Abstract:
Most of the people who visit the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris probably do not realize that the legendary gargoyles adorning this medieval masterpiece were not constructed until the 19th century. This title presents a history of these monsters. It argues that they transformed the iconic 13th-century cathedral into a modern monument.
Read more...
Reviews
Editorial reviews
Publisher Synopsis
"The celebrated medievalist Michael Camille takes on the modern era in this sweeping and brave book - with staggeringly original results. Exploring the indispensability of the monstrous to the modern, The Gargoyles of Notre Dame is at once a meditation on the valences of modernity and a rumination on the meanings attributed to the Middle Ages and the cathedral itself in the later nineteenth century." - Hollis Clayson, author of Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life under Siege" Read more...

