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9780801856228 Academic Inspection Copy

The Gothic Revival and American Church Architecture

An Episode in Taste, 1840-1856
  • ISBN-13: 9780801856228
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Phoebe B. Stanton
  • Price: AUD $82.99
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  • Local release date: 14/07/1997
  • Format: Paperback 376 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: The arts: general issues [AB]
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With meticulous research and carefully chosen illustrations, Phoebe Stanton here explores the influence of the English Gothic revival on American church architecture in the mid-nineteenth century, arguing that this fundamentally conservative movement provided a foundation for a new aesthetic. Examining the writings of the movement's leading proponents as well as a variety of important buildings, Stanton offers a comprehensive survey of the architectural principles and models that became most influential in America. She also confirms the importance of the Cambridge Camden Society, which provided the theoretical atmosphere and practical examples that helped to establish new standards of excellence in American architecture.

""Stanton so illuminates her investigation that the way in which the mania of the Cambridge men infected American architecture can be followed with fascination by anyone. This fascination derives partly from her evident mastery of the subject. Her research has been exhaustive... But she offers in fact far more than might be expected: she covers the whole history of the Gothic revival in America... and offers an altogether convincing introduction to the Victorian Gothic revival in England itself.""

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