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Beforewecanfairlyanswerthisquestionwe

needtobe

moreawarethanweareofcontemporaryinfluences

whichprejudicearchitecturalopinion..

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CHAPTER II

THEROMANTICFALLACY

The Renaissance too vigorously creative to form an

abstractcriticaltheoryofarchitecture.. 37

The Romantic Movement

still

further delayed the /

opportunityofimpartialcriticism.. •

37

NatureofRomanticism....

-39

Romanticisminarchitecture:conditionsessentialforits

success ......

41

Failureofour 'romantic' architectureto complywith

theseconditions....

.41

FirstevidencesoftheRomanticMovementinarchitecture;

Chinoiseries

andearly

Gothicexperiments

.. 42

Birthofarchaeologicalconscience

; Gray

.

.

.44

Attemptstofuse

GothicandClassic

;

B.Langley. 45

Firstattempts

atsystematicrevival; Walpole.. 46

Riseofsymbolic

senseofstyle;Goethe.. 47

Greekand

Gothicstylesassymbolic..

.48

Romanticism

atitsheight;Beckford..

.50

Symbolic

or literary values in modern architectural

criticism... ,.

.51

Resultsfortaste. Itbecomes:

(1)

subjectiveandcapricious.

.. .52

(2)

stylistic....

.

.54

(3)

antiquarian..

.. .56

(4)

concentratedupondetail.

. ;

-57

EffectsofRomanticismuponpur

modernjudgmentsof

Renaissancearchitecture.

..

.58

In what sensepoetical values

may rightly be said to

belongtoarchitecture

..

-59

,

The primary

values of architecture are sensuous

and

formal;those ofliterature are associative

and in-

direct

*

..
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