{"product_id":"the-city-rehearsed-christopher-heuer-9780415433068","title":"The City Rehearsed: Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe City Rehearsed\u003c\/em\u003e offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theatre, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Netherlandish polymath Hans Vredeman de Vries (1526-1609) devoted his entire career to the production of imaginary architecture. Painter, architect, rhetorician, perspective theorist, festival designer, and draughtsman, Vredeman was active in Antwerp, Amsterdam, and Prague, where he designed a mysterious body of architectural prints, works which by the seventeenth century had influenced buildings from Tallinn to Peru. Including \u003cem\u003eScenographiae\u003c\/em\u003e (1560), and \u003cem\u003ePerspective\u003c\/em\u003e (1604-5), Vredeman's strange publications were among the most widely-distributed \"Renaissance\" books on building and vision, shipped to England, Spain and even Mexico by 1600. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book, the first sustained study of Vredeman in English, shifts the focus of inquiry to look at the active role his prints played in the life of urban readers outside of a narrowly-defined \"Flemish\" architectural history. This is a study with clear interest for historians of art and the built environment, and one with broader contemporary resonances for changing definitions of \"European\" culture and identity in the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Heuer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415433061\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415433068\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/27\/2009 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2009 pg. 245","brand":"Christopher Heuer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086602350847,"sku":"9780415433068","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_734bd80c-4309-4f18-a0e2-66f832e6ca2e.jpg?v=1769095633","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-city-rehearsed-christopher-heuer-9780415433068","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}