The Gothic Revival by Baines, Phil

The Gothic Revival (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780714834801)

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The Gothic Revival by Baines, Phil

The Gothic Revival

$45.00
The Gothic Revival by Baines, Phil

The Gothic Revival

$45.00
Format: Paperback
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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 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 the Gothic revival is not just manifest in 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. This is the first book to deal comprehensively with the whole scope of the Gothic Revival.

Author: Phil Baines, Chris Brooks
ISBN-10: 0714834807
ISBN-13: 9780714834801
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Language: English
Published: 06/21/1999
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 8.60h x 6.34w x 0.99d
By Phil Baines
By Phil Baines
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Chris Brooks lectures on Victorian culture at Exeter University's School of English. He is also Chairman of the Victorian Society, a Trustee of the Albert Memorial, and a member of English Heritage's Cathedrals and Churches Advisory Committee. He has written and edited several books, including Signs for the Times: Symbolic Realism in the Mid-Victorian World.

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