Main entry:

Lukacher, Brian.

Title & Author:

Joseph Gandy : an architectural visionary in Georgian England / Brian Lukacher.

Publication:

London : Thames & Hudson, 2006.

Description:

222 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: On the Misrepresentation of Architecture -- To Rival Antiquity: Gandy's Youthful Dreams -- Natural Abodes of Men: Sepulchers and Cottages -- Wounded Sensibility, or Fragments of a Career -- Architectural History Painting: Gandy at the Royal Academy -- Soane and Gandy at the Fall of Architecture -- Gandy's Later Period: Toward a Mythography of Architecture -- Conclusion: On the Madness of Architecture -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Sources of Illustrations -- Index.

Summary:

"Joseph Gandy's life is in many respects the familiar saga of genius unrecognized. Upon his death he seemed to the world, and to himself, a failure. Having begun his career with high hopes, great imagination and exceptional talent, he ended it in a state of neglect and obscurity. That was in 1843. A century and a half later Gandy is recognized as one of the most original figures of English romanticism." "Works such as his unearthly Pandemonium or his luminous Tomb of Merlin have a hypnotic power that no other artist could surpass - a power that he brought to bear on Sir John Soane's bizarre 'Monk's Parlour' at his renowned house-musuem in Lincoln's Inn and on the lost masterpiece of Soane's Bank of England in the City of London, buildings that we have come to see through Gandy's eyes." "Brian Lukacher, the acknowledged authority on Gandy, has now written the definitive life of this architect-artist who exemplified the cultural temper of the romantic period. It is a fresh, deeply researched biography and a critical assessment of Gandy's work in its historical context. It is a tragic story but also an inspiring one, and a significant episode in the history of the architectural imagination and the visual arts during the nineteenth century."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0500342210 (hbk.)
9780500342213 (hbk.)

Subject:

Gandy, Joseph Michael, 1771-1843.
Gandy, Joseph, 1771-1843.
Gandy, Joseph Michael.
Gandy, Joseph Michael 1771-1843
Architects Great Britain Biography.
Architecture Great Britain History 19th century.
Architectes Grande-Bretagne Biographies.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture Great Britain 19th century.
Architects Biography. Great Britain.
Architects.
Architecture.
Architectuurtekeningen.
Architecten.
Great Britain.
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.

Form/genre:

Bildband.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
History.
Biografie.

Added entries:

Gandy, Joseph Michael, 1771-1843

Holdings:

Location: Library main 245033
Call No.: BIB 174684
Status: Available