Architects and the "building world" from Chambers to Ruskin : constructing authority / Brian Hanson.

Main entry:

Hanson, Brian, 1953-

Title & Author:

Architects and the "building world" from Chambers to Ruskin : constructing authority / Brian Hanson.

Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Description:

ix, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-360) and index.
"The Shadow of Their Wings": The Architect among Builders -- John Gwynn -- William Chambers -- The Example of Chambers -- "The Poetry of Architecture": The Architect above Builders -- Joseph Gwilt -- John Soane -- The Example of Soane -- "Mystery and Craft Are By": The Poet's Descent -- A Language of Men.

Summary:

"This study peers behind the veil of architectural styles to the underlying social microcosm of the "building world" of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to examine how the fragile authority of the architect took root.
Bringing to architectural history methods more familiar from studies of the social content of poetry and painting, Brian Hanson is able to establish new, and often surprising, relationships between many of the key figures of the period - including Chambers, Soane, Barry, Pugin, Scott, and Street - and to shed new light on lesser figures, and on agencies a diverse as freemasonry and magazine publishing.
John Ruskin in particular emerges here in an entirely new light, as do his arguments concerning "The Nature of Gothic." Hanson concludes that in some respects Ruskin was closer to William Chambers than to William Morris."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0521811864 (HB)
9780521811866 (HB)

Subject:

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 Contributions in architecture.
Ruskin, John, (1819-1900) Contribution à l'architecture.
Architects and builders Great Britain History 18th century.
Architects and builders Great Britain History 19th century.
Architectes et entrepreneurs Grande-Bretagne Histoire 18e siècle.
Architectes et entrepreneurs Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Architects and builders.
Architecten.
Bouwnijverheid.
Gezag.
Coordonnateurs de travaux Grande-Bretagne 18e siècle.
Coordonnateurs de travaux Grande-Bretagne 19e siècle.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 229438
Call No.: NA2543.B84 H36 2003
Status: Available

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