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100			_aRykwert, Joseph _969183
245			_aDancing column : on order in architecture
260			_aLondon _bMIT Press _c1998
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505			_aContents List of Illustrations viii Preface xvi Order in Building 2 Catalogues and recipes • Skeptics, critics, and romantics • The Beaux-Arts and the Ecole Polytechnique • Imitation of the primitive hut • The end of metaphor • Return to sources II Order in the Body 26 Scriptural columns: John Wood the Elder • Gian Lorenzo Bernini on bodies and columns • Jacques-Fran,ois Blondel on faces and capitals • Face, character, fate • Psychology in the studio: Charles Le Brun's Conferences • Artificial gesture, natural gesture • Face, character, mood, landscape • Variety of character and fixity of canon • The church as a body • The city as a body • The city as a house III The Body and the World 68 Love and strife • The body of the first man • Humors, elements, and stars • Astral man, canonic man • The dignity and the misery of the body • Geometry of God and man • Man the measure • The canon realized • Vitruvius' man in motion • Diirer on human variety • Gian Paolo Lomazzo • Michelangelo • Fabric of man, fabric of the world IV Gender and Column 96 The square and the circular man • Kanan Polykleitos • A female canon? • Luck and invention V The Literary Commonplace 116 Girl and boy • The metaphoric animal • The shock of meaning • The primal post • Imitation and manufacture • If nature built a house • Do-alike, look-alike • Tragic building • Persians and atlantes • Caryatids VI The Rule and the Song 142 The sons of Herakles • The first shrines • The heroes' sacrifice • God and king • Altar and temple • Parts of the building • The demiourgos at sacrifice • Lions and a column • The holy column • Egyptian Doric • Djed: Column and mummy • Egyptians and Greeks • Greek origins VII The Hero as a Column 170 Base • Column: The shaft • Column: The capital • Beams and roof • Metopai • Triglyphs • Models • Delphi: The legend • Eretria and Lefkandi • Dreros and Prinias • Thermon • Olympia: The temple of Hera • Olympia: The House of Oenomaos • Delos: The Naxian Oikos • Corinth • The awkward Doric VIII The Known and the Seen 210 The temple and its users • Tholoi • Type and project • Six hundred varieties • Tympanum or pediment • The corner triglyph-again • Optical refinements • Theory and practice • Surface IX The Mask, the Horns, and the Eyes 236 Ionic and descriptive • The legend of the first Ionic • Doric territory • Artemis at Ephesus • The worship of Artemis • Artemis and Dionysos • The Ephesian Artemision • Votive columns • The Sikyonian thalamoi • A Persian Ionic? • The Aeolic "order" • Oriental parallels • In Anatolia: Mittani, Hittites, and Urartians • In Anatolia: Phrygia, Lydia, Lycia, Carya • Spirals and trees • Aphrodite at Paphos • Astarte at Kition • The guardians of the doors • Models and shrines • Furniture and fabrics • The horned skull • Humbaba • The column-statue • The reed bundle: Inanna 's pillar • Hathor X The Corinthian Virgin 316 The girl • Death and burial • The offering basket • Acanthus-the plant • Acanthus at Delphi • Acanthus and tripod • Delphi: The landscape • The girl again: Persephone • Monuments 1: The temples • Monuments 2: Tholoi • Monuments 3: Monopteroi • The Athenian Olympieion XI A Native Column? 350 The Etruscan arrangement • The disposition Greek rite, Etruscan rite • Capitolium • Ceres • A Tuscan Ionic? • Columns of honor • An Italic order XII Order or intercourse 372 The double metaphor • Dorian objectivity • Skin and bones • Sensation and production • Making imitating, loving Notes 392 Abbreviations and Ancient Texts 522 Bibliography 532 Index 578
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