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Architecture of Truth: The Cistercian Abbey of Le Thoronet by Lucien Herve 1st
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Type
- Photography
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Inscribed
- No
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9780714840031
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Phaidon Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0714840033
ISBN-13
9780714840031
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1704913
Product Key Features
Book Title
Architecture of Truth : the Cistercian Abbey of Le Thoronet
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2001
Topic
Buildings / Religious, General, History / Medieval
Illustrator
Yes
Features
Revised
Genre
Architecture
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
46.1 Oz
Item Length
11.8 in
Item Width
10.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-278841
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
'Lucien Hervé's amazing photographs of Le Thoronet Abbey have acquired mythical status in the profession. Now, these 50s images have been excellently reproduced in Architecture of Truth .' (Architectural Review)
Grade From
Eighth Grade
Dewey Decimal
726/.7/094493
Grade To
College Graduate Student
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
Le Thoronet Abbey, one of the wonders of twelfth-century Cistercian architecture and still revered by architects today, nestles in a wooded valley in Provence, South of France. This book is a pictorial appreciation of the abbey, photographed by Lucien Hervé in the mid-1950s and introduced by Le Corbusier. 'The pictures in this book are witnesses to the truth, ' says Le Corbusier of Hervé's photographs of the Romanesque abbey. Hervé's exquisite study presents the building throughout the course of a day, depicting the changing play of light and shadow on its stone vaulted exterior and interior. Highly textured and almost abstract in quality, his photographs reveal how the abbey is defined as much by light as by the conventions of Romanesque architecture, to communicate the intense spirituality of the Cistercian monastic order. Arranged according to the canonical hours of prayer, Hervé's photographs are complemented by quotations from the psalms and the saints. An essay by Father Samuel of the Abbey of Notre-Dame de Sept-Fons provides a profound insight into the Cistercian monastic order, while the renowned state-of-the-art architect John Pawson contributes a personal appreciation of this fine example of Cistercian architecture., A pictorial celebration of the magnificent architecture and stonework of the 12th-century Cistercian abbey of Le Thoronet, Provence. Herve's black and white photographs, taken during the 1950s, are each accompanied by brief extracts from biblical texts, psalms, prayers and quotations by contemporary Cistercians, notably Bernard of Clairvaux. The architect John Pawson supplies the afterword., Le Thoronet Abbey, one of the wonders of twelfth-century Cistercian architecture and still revered by architects today, nestles in a wooded valley in Provence, South of France. This book is a pictorial appreciation of the abbey, photographed by Lucien Hervé in the mid-1950s and introduced by Le Corbusier. 'The pictures in this book are witnesses to the truth,' says Le Corbusier of Hervé's photographs of the Romanesque abbey. Hervé's exquisite study presents the building throughout the course of a day, depicting the changing play of light and shadow on its stone vaulted exterior and interior. Highly textured and almost abstract in quality, his photographs reveal how the abbey is defined as much by light as by the conventions of Romanesque architecture, to communicate the intense spirituality of the Cistercian monastic order. Arranged according to the canonical hours of prayer, Hervé's photographs are complemented by quotations from the psalms and the saints. An essay by Father Samuel of the Abbey of Notre-Dame de Sept-Fons provides a profound insight into the Cistercian monastic order, while the renowned state-of-the-art architect John Pawson contributes a personal appreciation of this fine example of Cistercian architecture.
LC Classification Number
NA5551.L46A74 2000
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