The Gothic revival /

By:

Brooks, Chris

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Publisher: London : Phaidon, 1999Description: 447 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0714834807

Subject(s): Summary: At the height of the Victorian period, a craze for Gothic style swept England and spread far beyond. Gothic architecture, associated with the social and cultural ideals of the Middle Ages, was seen as a means of remaking the modern world.Summary: In this lucid exposition, Chris Brooks unravels the layers of meaning that Gothic held for its many reinventors: from the political uses of Gothic history in the seventeenth century to Barry and Pugin's Houses of Parliament in the mid-nineteenth. Yet Gothic is not just buildings: continually recreated, it has taken the form of poetry and fiction, of painting and sculpture, of movies and video games, of Gothic music and Gothic punk. Gothic became a dominant cultural and architectural force not only in nineteenth-century Britain, but across Europe, in the United States, and in the countries of the British Empire. It is still pervasive. This is the first book to deal comprehensively with the whole scope of the Gothic Revival.

List(s) this item appears in: Richardson Collection | New Films and Books

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Barcode
Reference	Carleton University, AVRC	Richardson Collection - Non CIrculating - Call No. Accompanied by Red Dot	Open-stacks	NA610 .B766x 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan	16055001223

signed "D.S. Richardson"

Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-438) and index.

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