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Georgian Gothic: Medievalist Architecture, Furniture and Interiors, 1730-1840
Peter N. Lindfield
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Description for Georgian Gothic: Medievalist Architecture, Furniture and Interiors, 1730-1840
Hardback. First full-length study of the impact of the Gothic Revival across the arts, from literature and architectural theory to houses, furniture and interiors. Num Pages: 288 pages, 59 black & white illustrations, 11 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; AMR; AMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 742.
The Gothic Revival, rich, ambitious, occasionally eccentric, but nonetheless visually exciting, is one of Britain's greatest contributions to early modern design history, not least because for the most part it contravened approved taste: Classicism. Scholars have tended to treat Georgian Gothic as an homogenous and immature precursor to high Victorian Gothic, and centred their discussion around Walpole's Strawberry Hill. This book, conversely, reveals how the style was imaginatively and repeatedly revised and incorporated into prevailing eighteenth-century fashions: Palladianism, Rococo, Neoclassicism, and antiquarianism. It shows how under the control of architects, from Wren to Pugin, Walpole and Cottingham, and ... Read more
The Gothic Revival, rich, ambitious, occasionally eccentric, but nonetheless visually exciting, is one of Britain's greatest contributions to early modern design history, not least because for the most part it contravened approved taste: Classicism. Scholars have tended to treat Georgian Gothic as an homogenous and immature precursor to high Victorian Gothic, and centred their discussion around Walpole's Strawberry Hill. This book, conversely, reveals how the style was imaginatively and repeatedly revised and incorporated into prevailing eighteenth-century fashions: Palladianism, Rococo, Neoclassicism, and antiquarianism. It shows how under the control of architects, from Wren to Pugin, Walpole and Cottingham, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
282
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783271276
SKU
V9781783271276
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Reviews for Georgian Gothic: Medievalist Architecture, Furniture and Interiors, 1730-1840
The book is valuable in giving equal prominence to architecture and furniture, which modern scholarship can so often divorce. ECCLESIOLOGY TODAY [A] wide-ranging and lucidly written account. APOLLO