The Gothic Revival
Author(s): Chris Brooks
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. In this exposition, Chris Brooks unravels the layers of meaning that Gothic held for its many reinventors: from the political uses of Gothic history in the 17th century to Barry and Pugin's Houses of Parliament in the mid-19th century. 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 19th-century Britain, but across Europe, in the United States and in the countries of the British Empire. It is still pervasive. This book deals comprehensively with the whole scope of the Gothic Revival.
General Information
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- : Phaidon Press Ltd
- : Phaidon Press Ltd
- : 01 May 1999
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Chris Brooks
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 306.09034
- : 447
- : History of art: c 500 CE to c 1400; Anthropology; Architecture; Cultural studies
- : 223 colour and 38 b&w illustrations, glossary, map, further reading, index
More About The Product
Author's works include "Signs for the Times: Symbolic Realism in the Mid-Victorian World"
A style is born; the rhetoric of power - Gothic legacies c.1600-1700; making history - the 18th-century Gothic revival; house style - Strawberry Hill and domestic Gothic; storm and stress - romantic Gothic; looking back - defining a style; to the battlements - the advance of the sublime and the picturesque; domestic and national - secular Gothic in the early-19th century; the church's one foundation - the evolution of Victorian ecclesiastical Gothic; bearing the torch - the Gothic revival abroad; sermons in stones - readings in high Victorian Gothic; national monuments for a new age - the uses of Gothic in late 19th-century Europe and America; cathedrals and commerce - late Gothic revival c.1880-1900.
