Architecture of Truth: The Cistercian Abbey of Le Thoronet by Lucien Herve 1st

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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
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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
Topic
Buildings / Religious, General, History / Medieval
Publication Year
2001
Features
Revised
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Architecture
Author
L-Abbaye De L-Abbaye De Sept-Fons, Lucien Herve
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)
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Dewey Decimal
726/.7/094493
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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