- Paperback: 616 pages
- Publisher: MIT Press; New edition edition (8 April 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0262681013
- ISBN-13: 978-0262681018
- Product Dimensions: 26.4 x 21.6 x 3.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 725,775 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Can a highly erudite book enquire what the sex of columns might be? It can, if the author is Joseph Rykwert. Can one imagine anything more rigid, more desperately immutable and dumb than a column? And yet Rykwert not only makes it dance, as he promised in the title; he also makes it speak. We thought we knew all there was to know about the ancient theory of the architectural orders, but Rykwert obliges us to return to the origins of Western civilization and listen to what architecture is telling us - speaking of many other things beside itself."--Umberto Eco
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"Can a highly erudite book enquire what the sex of columns might be? Itcan, if the author is Joseph Rykwert. Can one imagine anything morerigid, more desperately immutable and dumb than a column? And yetRykwert not only makes it dance, as he promised in the title; he alsomakes it speak. We thought we knew all there was to know about theancient theory of the architectural orders, but Rykwert obliges us toreturn to the origins of Western civilization and listen to whatarchitecture is telling us - speaking of many other things besideitself." Umberto Eco "Joseph Rykwert is a gloriously erudite, ingeniously speculative historian and critic of architecture--- of, that is, the forms (in the most concrete sense) of civilization, of social embodiment itself. His The Dancing Column is a sovereign account of its intricate subject and an enthralling mental journey." Susan Sontag "This essay on our profound and daily relationship to classical formsis fairly boggling in its scholarship, its scope, its freedom fromcant, and also in Rykwert's fresh reading of meanings vested in theorders that 'have dominated Western architecture for nearly threemillennia.'" Village Voice Literary Supplement
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erudite...as usual
30 April 2000
Format:Hardcover
we came to expect from Joseph Rykwert works of great erudition, which incessantly delve into their subject matter to uncover its deepest folds and hidden meanings...[perhaps a "deconstruction" without the fancy of that attribute], and this work is no exception to this. This is a thick investigation into the meanings of the column, and from that into the associations of body and building, into the meanings of classical architecture. For the erudite, a pleasure; for the professional, a necessary though at times difficult read. Not a coffee table book, though...amateurs beware.
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