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An Insular Rococco: Architecture, Politics and Society in Ireland and England, 1710 - 1770
T Mowl
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Description for An Insular Rococco: Architecture, Politics and Society in Ireland and England, 1710 - 1770
hardcover. The authors of this text controversially claim that Ireland. more sophisticated in the technical education of its craftsmen and artists, not only devised its own subtle "insular" Rococo, but exported this mode successfully in a gesture of cultural colonialism to the West of England. Num Pages: 324 pages, 40 colour, 160 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBR; ACQ; AM; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 203 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1235.
Between 1710 and 1770, the inventive, ornate Rococo style should, in the natural course of events, have been Britain's prevailing decorative style. This is the first book to describe and explain its oddly frustrated course in England and, in vivid contrast, its brilliant flourishing in Ireland. The authors' controversial claim is that Ireland not only devised its own form of 'insular' Rococo, but exported this mode successfully in a gesture of cultural colonialism to the West of England. Their book shows that the Irish were, far more effectively than the English, participants in the European consensus of the Rococo period.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
Number of Pages
358
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861890443
SKU
V9781861890443
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About T Mowl
Timothy Mowl is a Fellow in the Department of History of Art at the University of Bristol. He is the author of William Beckford (1998) and, with Brian Earnshaw, of Architecture Without Kings: The Rise of Puritan Classicism under Cromwell (1995).
Reviews for An Insular Rococco: Architecture, Politics and Society in Ireland and England, 1710 - 1770
`fill[s] in a huge number of blanks for both lay and scholarly readers' - Architects' Journal `a lively, well-illustrated account'-Building Design