Volume 43, Number 18 · November 14, 1996
The Drama of Gottfried Semper
By Gordon A. Craig
Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century
by Harry Francis Mallgrave
Yale University Press, 443 pp., $50.00
Since the onset of modernism, there has been a tendency to depreciate the art of the previous age, Hermann Muthesius in 1902 going so far as to dismiss the whole of the nineteenth century as 'the inartistic century.' Nineteenth-century architecture in particular has been the object of criticism, and it has often been described as being stuck in a historicism that stifled design, and whose practitioners, without any ideological preconceptions, simply copied the structures and styles of the past according to the whims of the market and contemporary taste.
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