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Article: Architecture in the Age of Printing: Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the History of Architectural Theory. (Reviews).(Book Review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- September 22, 2002
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Mario Carpo, Architecture in the Age of Printing: Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the History of Architectural Theory
Trans. Sarah Benson. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2001. viii + 246 pp. $34.95. ISBN: 0-262-03288-0.
The concept of imitation has been central to the creation of architecture and art. In antiquity and the Middle Ages imitation was not a visual act, but was governed either by a literary or oral source. Many years ago Richard Krautheimer in a notable article on the iconography of medieval architecture demonstrated conclusively how medieval imitation was so ambiguous to our visually oriented minds and was ...