The Gothic revival
By: Chris Brooks.
Series: Art & ideas
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
Subjects: Gothic revival (Art); Arts, Modern.
Description: "At the height of the Victorian period, a passion for the 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 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-438) and index.
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