Main entry:

Campbell, Louise.

Title & Author:

Coventry Cathedral : art and architecture in post-war Britain / Louise Campbell.

Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Description:

xviii, 287 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.

Series:

Clarendon studies in the history of art

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-282) and index.
1. The Cathedral and the City: The Blitz, Civic Ideology, and Reconstruction -- 2. The Cathedral Project 1940-1947 -- 3. 'Towards a New Cathedral'? -- 4. Modernism and Tradition: The Genesis of Spence's Competition Design -- 5. The Competition Design Refined, 1951-1954 -- 6. The Architect and the Artist -- 7. The Licence to Build, 1954 -- 8. The Turning-Point, 1954-1956 -- 9. The Design Recast, 1956-1958 -- 10. The Modern Church -- 11. Provost and Architect -- 12. The Cathedral Completed, 1960-1962 -- 13. The Cathedral and the Post-War World: Austerity and Triumphalism.
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Dust jacket.

Summary:

The book examines the genesis of one of the most important works of post-war British architecture. Using original documents and drawings, it provides a case-study of a building in which a significant role was allocated to works of art, and in doing so illuminates the creative process of both artist and architect.
The design of the cathedral - a building which symbolised both past traditions and future aspirations - is discussed in the context of the wider debates of the day on architecture and reconstruction. The project to build a new cathedral at Coventry is related to those at Guildford and Liverpool and also to the great church-building schemes of post-war Europe.
. Louise Campbell discusses Basil Spence's developing design - and its transformation into a cathedral building - in relation to the fast pace of artistic developments in the 1950s and 60s. She analyses the different priorities of the architectural profession, the clergy, and the city; her book provides a study in the history of patronage as well as of architecture.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0198175191 (acid-free paper)
9780198175193 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Coventry Cathedral.
Architecture England Coventry History.
Christian art and symbolism England Coventry Modern period, 1500-
Architecture Angleterre Coventry Histoire.
Architecture.
Buildings.
Christian art and symbolism Modern period.
Saint Michaels Cathedral (Coventry)
Kathedralen.
Architecture religieuse 20e siècle Grande-Bretagne Coventry.
Architecture England Coventry 20th century
Christian art and symbolism Modern period, 1500- England Coventry.
Coventry (England) Buildings, structures, etc.
England Coventry.
Coventry (Grande-Bretagne) Constructions.
Cathedrals Architecture
West Midlands (England)

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Clarendon studies in the history of art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 122419
Call No.: ID NA5471.C6 C3; ID:96-B905
Status: Available