Articulating British classicism : new approaches to eighteenth-century architecture / edited by Barbara Arciszewska and Elizabeth McKellar.

Title & Author:

Articulating British classicism : new approaches to eighteenth-century architecture / edited by Barbara Arciszewska and Elizabeth McKellar.

Publication:

Description:

xxviii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Reinterpreting classicism

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-262) and index.
Introduction. Classicism: constructing the paradigm in continental Europe and Britain / Barbara Arciszewska -- Popularism versus professionalism: John Summerson and the twentieth-century creation of the 'Georgian' / Elizabeth McKellar -- 'A mockery of the surveyor's style'?: alternatives to Inigo Jones in seventeenth-century elite British architecture / Elizabeth V. Chew -- From Burlington Gate to Billingsgate: James Ralph's attempt to impose Burlingtonian classicism as a canon of public taste / Matthew Craske -- A 'Rarie-shew system of architecture': Bath and the cultural scenography of Palladianism / Carol Watts -- Commercialization and backlash in late Georgian architecture / Daniel M. Abramson -- Joseph Gandy and the politics of rustic charm / Andrew Ballantyne -- Negotiating classicism in eighteenth-century Deptford and Philadelphia / Bernard L. Herman and Peter Guillery -- Architectures of confidence?: Spanish Town, Jamaica, 1655-1792 / James Robertson.

Summary:

Loosely modelled on Palladio's Villa Capra, Chiswick House by Lord Burlington was one of first designs to compete with the Baroque style that had influenced Inigo Jones and others. These essays explore new approaches to British architecture during the 18th century.

ISBN:

0754637352 (alk. paper)
9780754637356 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652 Influence.
Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580 Influence.
Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652
Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580
Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652 influenser.
Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580 influenser.
Architecture Great Britain History 17th century.
Architecture Great Britain History 18th century.
Classicism in architecture Great Britain.
Architecture Great Britain 18th century.
Palladianisme.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne 17e siècle.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne 18e siècle.
Classicisme en architecture Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne Histoire 17e siècle.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne Histoire 18e siècle.
Palladian.
Architecture.
Classicism in architecture.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Bouwkunst.
Classicisme.
Arkitektur historia.
Klassicism (arkitektur)
Storbritannien.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Arciszewska, Barbara, 1962-
McKellar, Elizabeth.
Reinterpreting classicism.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 247078
Call No.: NA44.J77.23 A78 2004
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available

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