Author: George F. ChadwickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architects
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The Works of Sir Joseph Paxton, 1803-1865
Author: George F. ChadwickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architects
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The Works of Sir Joseph Paxton, 1803-1865. [With Illustrations, Including Portraits.].
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Author: George Fletcher CHADWICKPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Crystal Palace
Author: John McKeanPublisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9780714829258
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
This volume covers one of the most influential buildings of the 19th century. Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace was the first public building to omit references to the past. Amid the historicist debates and battle of the styles of mid-19th-century Britain, Paxton's design was rational and straightforward.
Joseph Paxton
Author: A Class-book History of England. Illustrated with ... Historical Maps, Etc
Author: David MORRIS (B.A.)The Paxtons
Author: William McClung PaxtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adams County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
The Old Rectory
Author: Anthony JenningsPublisher: Sacristy Press
ISBN: 1910519537
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
A “humdinging page-turner of a book” (The Spectator) that will “give great pleasure” (Country Life). The Old Rectory examines the history of the English parsonage through the centuries, and their many and varied styles of architecture. Explore the lives of famous inhabitants and discover the scandals of neglect.
Catalogue of Botanical Prints and Drawings at the National Museums & Galleries of Wales
Author: M. H. LazarusPublisher: National Museum Wales
ISBN: 9780720005257
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
There are over 7,000 botanical illustrations in the collections of the National Museums & Galleries of Wales, now comprehensively catalogued for the first time
Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers
Author: Ray DesmondPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1466573872
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 3619
Book Description
An exhaustive treatment of all British and Irish botanists through 1976.
Victorian Glassworlds
Author: Isobel ArmstrongPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191607126
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Isobel Armstrong's startlingly original and beautifully illustrated book tells the stories that spring from the mass-production of glass in nineteenth-century England. Moving across technology, industry, local history, architecture, literature, print culture, the visual arts, optics, and philosophy, it will transform our understanding of the Victorian period. The mass production of glass in the nineteenth century transformed an ancient material into a modern one, at the same time transforming the environment and the nineteenth-century imagination. It created a new glass culture hitherto inconceivable. Glass culture constituted Victorian modernity. It was made from infinite variations of the prefabricated glass panel, and the lens. The mirror and the window became its formative elements, both the texts and constituents of glass culture. The glassworlds of the century are heterogeneous. They manifest themselves in the technologies of the factory furnace, in the myths of Cinderella and her glass slipper circulated in print media, in the ideologies of the conservatory as building type, in the fantasia of the shopfront, in the production of chandeliers, in the Crystal Palace, and the lens-made images of the magic lantern and microscope. But they were nevertheless governed by two inescapable conditions. First, to look through glass was to look through the residues of the breath of an unknown artisan, because glass was mass produced by incorporating glassblowing into the division of labour. Second, literally a new medium, glass brought the ambiguity of transparency and the problems of mediation into the everyday. It intervened between seer and seen, incorporating a modern philosophical problem into bodily experience. Thus for poets and novelists glass took on material and ontological, political, and aesthetic meanings. Reading glass forwards into Bauhaus modernism, Walter Benjamin overlooked an early phase of glass culture where the languages of glass are different. The book charts this phase in three parts. Factory archives, trade union records, and periodicals document the individual manufacturers and artisans who founded glass culture, the industrial tourists who described it, and the systematic politics of window-breaking. Part Two, culminating in glass under glass at the Crystal Palace, reads the glassing of the environment, including the mirror, the window, and controversy round the conservatory, and their inscription in poems and novels. Part Three explores the lens, from optical toys to 'philosophical' instruments as the telescope and microscope were known. A meditation on its history and phenomenology, Victorian Glassworlds is a poetics of glass for nineteenth-century modernity.