Iron, Ornament and Architecture in Victorian Britain: Myth and Modernity, Excess and Enchantment

ISBN-13: 9781138310292 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 342 str.

Paul Dobraszczyk

Opis

This book studies the development of mechanised architectural ornament in iron in nineteenth-century architecture, its reception and theorisation, and the contexts in which it flourished. As such, it offers new ways of understanding the notion of modernity in Victorian architecture.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: ornament unbound; Marketing ornament: iron founders and visual cultures of display; Social ornament: iron on the street; Demotic ornament: seaside ironworlds; Civic ornament: arcades and market halls; Meta-ornament: iron and the railway station; Postscript: ornament in ruins; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Paul Dobraszczyk is Research Associate in Art History & Visual Studies, University of Manchester, UK.