Author: Rykwert, Joseph [1926- ]
Title: The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture
Description: Cambridge [MA], MIT Press, (1996). orig.cloth. 28x21cm, xviii, 598 pp.. Minor rubbing. A small ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG. dustwr ¶ Contents: Order in Building, Order & the Body; the Body in the World; Gender & Column; The Literary Commonplace; The Rule & the Song; The Hero as a Column; The Known & the Seen; The Mask, the Horns & the Eyes; The Corinthian Virgin; A Native Column; Order or Intercourse.

Keywords: Architectural History, Architecture, Classical Antiquity, Doric Columns, Ionic Column, Eclecticism, History, Order, Human Body