| Matthew Digby Wyatt: The First Cambridge Slade Professor of Fine Art: An Inaugural Lecture Contributor(s): Pevsner, Nikolaus (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521170761 ISBN-13: 9780521170765 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $24.69 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture |
| Dewey: 720.92 |
| Physical Information: 0.17" H x 5" W x 8" (0.19 lbs) 72 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For more than one reason Professor Pevsner, eleventh Slade Professor of Fine Art in the University of Cambridge, takes as the topic of his Inaugural Lecture Matthew Digby Wyatt, the Victorian architect and the first Slade Professor. He begins by inspecting some of Wyatt's major works - Addenbrooke's Hospital at Cambridge and the Paddington Station among them. Presently he allows himself to be diverted from his light architectural candour about Wyatt's buildings to an account of Wyatt's more general interests in design, and so to investigate the Victorian arena, with Pugin, Ruskin, and Morris, the conservative idealists, preaching one gospel, and Wyatt, Cole, and the Prince Consort preaching something different. The battle being fought was, as the Professor's 1950 text shows, deeply important; and its effects remain. |