Main entry:

Lubbock, Jules.

Title & Author:

The tyranny of taste : the politics of architecture and design in Britain 1550-1960 / Jules Lubbock.

Publication:

New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art by Yale University Press, 1995.

Description:

xv, 413 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-395) and index.
The Control of London's Expansion -- Seating the Gentry -- The Control of Consumption -- The Luxury Debate 1559-1680 -- Barbon : The Infinite Wants of the Mind -- Bernard De Mandeville -- The Spectator -- David Hume : Commerce and Refinement -- Adam Smith -- The Early Stuarts -- Luxury, Virtue and the Imagination : The Spectator and Pope -- Hogarth's Analysis of Beauty -- The Encouragement of the Arts of Design in the Eighteenth Century -- The Condition of England -- Pugin : Preaching Design -- Design Reform and the Great Exhibition -- The Opponents of Design Reform -- John Ruskin : The Political Economy of Design -- Modern Leisure and Sumptuary Law -- Modern Architecture -- Town Planning -- Modernist Ideas in Action -- Conclusion : Plato's Conundrum.

Summary:

How do countries acquire their distinctive features and appearance, their look or style? Focusing on Britain, with its characteristic terraced houses, Georgian squares and postwar slab blocks, this text discusses the ideas, policies and motivations of designers and commentators from 1550 to 1960.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

0300058896
9780300058895

Subject:

Design Political aspects Great Britain.
Design Economic aspects Great Britain.
Aesthetics, British.
Art and society Great Britain.
Architecture Great Britain.
City planning Great Britain.
Aesthetics, British History.
Art and society Great Britain History.
Architecture Great Britain History.
City planning Great Britain History.
Design Aspect politique Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Design Aspect économique Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Esthétique britannique Histoire.
Art et société Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Design urbain Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Design Aspect politique Grande-Bretagne.
Design Aspect économique Grande-Bretagne.
Esthétique britannique.
Art et société Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture
Art and society
City planning
Design Economic aspects
Design Political aspects
Bouwkunst.
Vormgeving.
Consumptie.
Great Britain

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 117692
Call No.: ID NK1443.A1 L8; ID:95-B1429
Status: Available