ARTH 3710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Complex Dynamics, Deconstruction, The Roots
2 Feb 2017
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Remaking the bastile: architectural destruction and revolutionary consciousness in france , Recent historical evidence seems to support louis-s bastien mercier 0:50 anecdotal claim that the years 1760 - 1780 had seen as much as 1/3 of the city"s" fabric torn down and replaced by new construction. However, during the revolutionary years 1780 - 1794, while these everyday cycles of deconstruction and reconstruction continued unevaded, architectural destruction took on another, revolutionary resonance. One in which buildings and historic monuments because subjects to acts of violence, it"s political meaning seemed transparently obvious. It is a common place in revolution historiography that the crowd who gathered on july. 14, 1789, outside of the walls of the bastile did not come to attack the building itself or to liberate its prisoners who in any case, only 7 remained. But rather to procure ammunitions and gun powder held within its walls.
