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Terms and conditions applyThe Gargoyles of Notre Dame: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity
Michael Camille
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Format: Book
Pages: 488
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: May 2009
Stock Code: 62710
Binding: Hardback
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Most of the seven million people who visit the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris each year probably do not realise that the legendary gargoyles adorning this medieval masterpiece were not constructed until the nineteenth century. The first comprehensive history of these world-famous monsters, The Gargoyles of Notre Dame argues that they transformed the iconic thirteenth-century cathedral into a modern monument.
Michael Camille begins his long-awaited study by recounting architect Eugene Viollet-le-Duc's ambitious restoration of the structure from 1843 to 1864, when the gargoyles were designed, sculpted by the little-known Victor Pyanet, and installed. These gargoyles, Camille contends, were not mere avatars of the Middle Ages, but rather fresh creations - symbolising an imagined past - whose modernity lay precisely in their nostalgia.
Tracing their eventual evolution into icons of high kitsch, Camille ultimately locates the gargoyles' place in the 20th century imagination, exploring interpretations by everyone from Winslow Homer to the Walt Disney Company.
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