| Building Reputations: Architecture and the Artisan, 1750-1830 Contributor(s): Lucey, Conor (Author) |
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ISBN: 1526119943 ISBN-13: 9781526119940 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - Baroque & Rococo - Architecture | History - General |
| Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.9" W x 9.5" (1.80 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Taking a cue from revisionist scholarship on early modern vernacular architectures and their relationship to the classical canon, this book rehabilitates the reputations of a representative if misunderstood building typology - the eighteenth-century brick terraced house - and the artisan communities of bricklayers, carpenters and plasterers responsible for its design and construction. Opening with a cultural history of the building tradesman in terms of his reception within contemporary architectural discourse, chapters consider the design, decoration and marketing of the town house in the principal cities of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British Atlantic world. The book is essential reading for students and scholars of the history of architectural design and interior decoration specifically, and of eighteenth-century society and culture generally. |