The Judicious Eye: Architecture Against the Other Arts by Rykwert, Joseph - 2008

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. The publisher's blurb asks whether architecture is art. "This vexed question has been posed since the 1700s, when?breaking from earlier centuries in which there were no divisions between visual artist, architect, and engineer?architects and laypeople alike began to see these vocations as distinct. Exploring how this separation of roles occurred, and how in the twentieth century arts and architecture started to come together again, The Judicious Eye is the definitive history of the relationships between painting, sculpture, and architecture as they have shifted over the past three centuries. Sterling condition Imperial octavo hardcover format copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. 120 half-tones. [6], 7-496 pp. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.