C.R. Mackintosh : the poetics of workmanship / David Brett.

Main entry:

Brett, David, 1937-

Title & Author:

C.R. Mackintosh : the poetics of workmanship / David Brett.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1992.

Description:

152 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Series:

Essays in art and culture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-145).
Introduction -- 1. The City and the Context -- 2. Decoration into Structure: The Role of Drawing -- 3. The Poetics of Workmanship -- 4. Modernity and the Interior.

Summary:

Between 1896 and 1906 Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) produced a series of buildings and interiors in and around Glasgow of such startling invention that he immediately established himself as one of the truly great figures in early twentieth-century architecture and design. David Brett argues that Mackintosh's originality was grounded in a highly subjective "poetics of workmanship," in which the structure, features, interiors and furnishings of each individual. Building became subject to a unifying system of forms, metaphors and unconscious associations. The system Mackintosh evolved--which began with his early drawing shaped by the Victorian tradition of art botany--allowed for the formulation of an almost infinite series of ensembles. After focusing on the various decorative details and interior spaces of Mackintosh's buildings, the author reaches to the heart of Mackintosh's poetic system--the diffused eroticism of the sleek, "feminine" and intensely private white interiors. A notable feature of this persuasive reappraisal of Mackintosh's work is the wealth of photographs by the author showing rarely featured details of buildings, interiors and furnishings.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0674540654 (acid-free paper)
9780674540651 (acid-free paper)
0674540662
9780674540668

Subject:

Mackintosh, Charles Rennie, 1868-1928 Criticism and interpretation.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie, 1868-1928
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie.
Decoration and ornament Scotland Art nouveau.
Arts and crafts movement Scotland.
Décoration et ornement Écosse Art nouveau.
Arts and crafts movement Écosse.
Arts and crafts movement
Decoration and ornament Art nouveau
Jugendstil
Interieurkunst.
Decoratieprogramma's.
Bouwkunst.
Scotland
Glasgow

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Books.

Added entries:

Essays in art and culture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 72944
Call No.: ID:92-B1448
Status: Available

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