Architects and the "building world" from Chambers to Ruskin : constructing authority

Architects and the "building world" from Chambers to Ruskin : constructing authority / Brian Hanson.

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Main Author: Hanson, Brian, 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Ruskin, John, > 1819-1900 > Contributions in architecture.
Architects and builders > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Architects and builders > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
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Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: 1. 'The shadow of their wings': the architect among builders John Gwynn (i) William Chambers The example of Chambers 2. 'The poetry of architecture': the architect above builders Joseph Gwilt (ii) John Soane The example of Soane Part II: 3. 'Mystery and craft are gone by': the poet's descent a language of men 4. The pictorial art 'never condescended': coming to terms with new disciplines Charles Barry (iii) Pugin A. J. Beresford Hope and the Ecclesiologists Part III: 5. 'Conjunctive all': the sharing of knowledge in building John Britton (iv) The artizan 6. 'Orthodoxy of practice': The Builder and a new freemasonry Josiah Hansom and The Builder (v) Alfred Bartholemew, The Builder and the Freemasons of the Church (vi) Bartholemew's College Godwin's Builder Part IV: 7. Ruskin's changing prospect: Ruskin, Leeds, Lamb, and Loudon (vii) The poetry of architecture Modern Painters I and II The Seven Lamps of Architecture Part V: 8. Ruskin's descent: Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle (viii) The Stones of Venice: James Fergusson and E. L. Garbett Ruskin in 1854 and 1855 Ruskin and the PreRaphaelites Part VI: 9. Incarnation: Ruskin, G. G. Scott and the architectural museum (ix) Ruskin, Acland, and the Oxford Museum Deane and Woodward PreRaphaelite painters and sculptors and the Oxford Museum Part VII: 10. Ruskin's reception: the 1850s and 1860s: John Pollard Seddon and the 'puginisation' of Ruskin (x) G. E. Street: father of the Arts and Crafts E. W. Godwin - the 'art-architect' The architectural museum in the late 1850s The failure of the Oxford Museum Ruskin's lectures to architects.

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