Title & Author:

Summerson and Hitchcock : centenary essays on architectural historiography / edited by Frank Salmon.

Publication:

New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art [and] the Yale Center for British Art [by] Yale University Press, ©2006.

Description:

xxx, 365 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Studies in British art ; 16

Notes:
"The essays presented in this volume for the most part have their origin in papers delivered at a conference held in 2004 at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London, co-organised by the Centre with the Society of Architectural Historians"--Introduction.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction / Frank Salmon -- Henry-Russell Hitchcock and John Summerson: personal memories by an acolyte / John Harris -- Talk from the table / Mosette Broderick -- Sir John Summerson as curator of Sir John Soane's Museum / Margaret Richardson -- Curating history, exhibiting ideas: Henry-Russell Hitchcock and architecture exhibition practice at the MoMA / Nina Stritzler-Levine -- A very personal renaissance / Christy Anderson -- Artisan mannerism: seventeenth-century rhetorical alternatives to Sir John Summerson's formalist approach / Caroline van Eck -- Sir John Summerson and the problem of palladianism / Giles Worsley -- Mind the gap: rewriting Sir John Summerson's American Architectural History / Marlene Elizabeth Heck -- Hitchcock, Summerson and Glasgow / Gavin Stamp -- An open space at the constricted Centre of the City: Summerson and the artificial inflation of Victorian values / Michela Rosso -- A thirty-year project: Henry-Russell Hitchcock's Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Paolo Scrivano -- Romantic modernity in the 1930s. Henry-Russell Hitchcock's Architecture: Twentieth and Nineteenth Centuries? / Barry Bergdoll -- John Summerson and romanticism / Alan Powers -- Hitchcock and Harvard: the historical context of formalist aesthetics / Marie Frank -- Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Dutch architecture / Helen Searing -- John Summerson and the view from the outside / Neil Jackson -- Genius and bureaucracy: Hitchcock, Summerson and post-war modern architecture / Philip Goad -- High hopes and universal disappointment: Reyner Banham and Henry-Russell Hitchcock / Nigel Whiteley -- Celebrating the centenaries of Summerson and Hitchcock: finding a historiography for the architect-historian / Helene Lipstadt.

Summary:

In this volume, twenty international scholars explore the work of two of the twentieth century's greatest architectural historians: the American Henry-Russell Hitchcock (1903 -1987) and the Englishman Sir John Summerson (1904 -1992). Both men undertook architectural training and became key polemical figures in the establishment of Modernism in the 1930s. After the war, and especially in the 1950s, both turned more exclusively to historical research and writing. While their areas of interest overlapped, their approaches greatly differed. The contributors to the book investigate the work and methodologies of Summerson and Hitchcock, from their interests in the Northern European (as opposed to Italian) Renaissance, through their studies of the nineteenth century as a precursor to their own times, to their involvement in contemporary issues of design and conservation. The book enhances our understanding of the influences that shaped these two important figures and of the place of architecture within the social and cultural environment.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0300116136 (hardcover)
9780300116137 (hardcover)

Subject:

Summerson, John, 1904-1992 Criticism and interpretation.
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, 1903-1987 Criticism and interpretation.
Hitchcock, Henry Russell, 1903- Criticism and interpretation.
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell.
Summerson, John Newenham, Sir, 1904- Criticism and interpretation.
Summerson, John, 1904-1992.
Summerson, John Newenham, Sir, 1904- Critique et interprétation.
Hitchcock, Henry Russell, 1903- Critique et interprétation.
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, 1903-1987
Architectural criticism England History 20th century.
Architecture Historiography.
Critique d'architecture Angleterre Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture Historiographie.
Architectural criticism
England

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Added entries:

Salmon, Frank (Frank E.)
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
Society of Architectural Historians.
Studies in British art ; 16.

Summerson & Hitchcock

Holdings:

Location: Library main 245762
Call No.: NA2599.8.S955 S8 2006
Status: Available