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Georgian gothic : medievalist architecture, furniture and interiors, 1730-1840
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...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge
: The Boydell Press
, 2016
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| Series: | Medievalism
volume VIII |
| Online Access: | http://kunst.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/jstor-ebooks-art/www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt1d3923m |
| Related Items: | Erscheint auch als:
Georgian Gothic : Medievalist Architecture, Furniture and Interiors, 1730-1840 |
| Author Notes: | Peter N. Lindfield |
| E-Book Packages: | JSTOR E-Books in Art, Design and Photography |
| Notes: | FID-Lizenz "FID Kunst, Fotografie, Design" (keine Universitätslizenz) |
| Summary: | 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 furniture designs, especially those of Chippendale and Mayhew, a shared language of Gothic motifs was applied to British architecture, furniture and interiors. Georgian Britain was awash with Gothic forms, even if the arbiters of taste criticised it vehemently. Throughout, the volume reframes the Gothic revival's expression by connecting it with Georgian understandings of the medieval past, and consequently revises interpretation of one of the most influential, yet lampooned, forms of material culture at the time. Peter N. Lindfield is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Stirling |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 265 pages) illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781782048381 1782048383 9781782049746 1782049746 |
