Egyptian Revival

Name: Egyptian Revival
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ISBN: 9780047240010

ISBN-10: 0047240016

ISBN-13: 9780047240010

Edition: 1982

Authors: James Stevens Curl

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In this beautifully illustrated and closely argued book, a completely updated and much expanded third edition of his magisterial survey, Professor Curl describes in lively and stimulating prose the numerous revivals of the Egyptian style from Antiquity to the present day, drawing on a wealth of sources. His pioneering and definitive work analyses the remarkable and persistent influence of Ancient Egyptian culture on the West.

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: Routledge
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 7.48" wide x 9.84" long
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

List of Illustrations	p. x
Foreword	p. xviii
Preface
Introduction	p. xx
The Argument	p. xxvi
Acknowledgments	p. xxxi
Egypt and Europe	p. 1
The Idea of Egypt in the European Mind	p. 2
The Isiac Religion	p. 12
The Absorption of Egyptian Religion into the Groeco-Roman World	p. 16
Obelisks	p. 22
The Isaeum Campense	p. 30
Pyramids	p. 39
Epilogue	p. 41
Some Manifestations of Egyptianisms from the Time of Trajan to the Early Renaissance Period	p. 43
Introduction	p. 44
The Villa Adriana at Tivoli	p. 47
Egypt, Rome, and the Emperors	p. 55
The Reality of Egypt in Recession	p. 60
The Transformation of Isis	p. 62
The Proto-Revival and the Survival of Egyptian and Egyptianising Artefacts	p. 73
Further Manifestations with Egyptian Connotations in Europe from the Renaissance to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century	p. 109
The Mensa Isiaca	p. 110
Records and Drawings	p. 112
Egyptianisms in Design	p. 116
The Hermetic Tradition	p. 128
Some Manifestations of Egyptiana	p. 133
Travellers and Speculators	p. 134
Bernini	p. 137
The French Connection	p. 139
Egyptian Elements in Eighteenth-Century Europe to the Time of Piranesi	p. 143
Explorers of the Eighteenth Century	p. 144
Further Baroque Themes	p. 146
The Search for Stereometrical Purity	p. 154
The Individual Contribution of Giovanni Battista Piranesi	p. 155
The Legacy of Piranesi	p. 168
The Egyptian Revival from the Time of Piranesi until the Napoleonic Campaigns in Egypt	p. 171
Introduction	p. 172
The Tomb and Egyptianising Forms	p. 172
Egyptianisms in Design before the Impact of Denon and the Description	p. 193
The Invasion	p. 200
The Egyptian Revival after the Napoleonic Campaigns in Egypt	p. 203
Introduction	p. 204
Denon	p. 204
Thomas Hope and the Neo-Classical Use of Egyptianisms	p. 206
The Description and the Glorification of Napoleon	p. 225
Freemasonry	p. 230
Furniture Design, and Other Egyptianising Manifestations	p. 234
Applications of the Egyptian Style	p. 249
Introduction: Die Zauberflote	p. 250
Stage-Designs and Mozart	p. 252
The Commercial Picturesque and the Adoption of Egyptian Forms	p. 260
Other Egyptianising Designs	p. 273
The Egyptian Revival in Funerary Architecture	p. 281
Introduction	p. 282
Funerary Exemplars	p. 283
The New Cemeteries	p. 286
Pugin	p. 304
Commemorative Egyptianisms	p. 306
Conclusion	p. 310
Aspects of the Egyptian Revival in the Later Part of the Nineteenth Century	p. 311
Introduction	p. 312
Travellers and Scholars	p. 317
The Egyptian Revival in the Hands of Serious Egyptologists	p. 320
The Individual Contribution of Alexander 'Greek' Thomson	p. 334
The Victorian Vision of Egypt	p. 341
Electicism and Design	p. 343
The Egyptian Revival in the Twentieth Century	p. 347
Introduction	p. 348
Egyptianising Architecture from 1900 to 1922	p. 366
Tutankhamun and Art-Deco	p. 373
Later Developments	p. 389
Epilogue	p. 395
A Postscript	p. 397
Introduction	p. 398
The Longevity of Nilotic Themes	p. 400
Afterword	p. 411
Select Glossary	p. 415
Select Bibliography	p. 471
Index	p. 533
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