John Ruskin and Victorian architecture / Michael W. Brooks.

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Brooks, Michael W., 1936-

Title & Author:

John Ruskin and Victorian architecture / Michael W. Brooks.

Publication:

Description:

xv, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-355) and index.
An architectural education -- John Ruskin, C.R. Cockerell, and the proportions of architecture -- Chapel and church: the religious background to architectural theory -- Describing buildings: Ruskin and nineteenth-century architectural prose -- Ruskinism: its visual content -- Ruskinism and the spirit of the age -- Benjamin Woodward and the formation of Ruskinian gothic -- The 1850s: the struggle for a Victorian gothic -- The 1860s: triumph and dispersal -- Ruskin versus the profession -- John Ruskin, John Henry Chamberlain, and the civic gospel -- Revaluation and a new Ruskinism -- Ruskin's influence in America -- The guild movement and the decline of Ruskinism -- Summary and aftermath.

ISBN:

0813512050
9780813512051

Subject:

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 Et l'architecture.
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 Contribution à l'architecture.
Architecture, Victorian Great Britain.
Architecture Great Britain.
Architecture victorienne Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture
Architecture, Victorian
Great Britain
Architecture Theories of Ruskin, John - Critical studies

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Location: Library main 19932
Call No.: ID:87-B7090
Status: Available

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