Empire Building
Orientalism and Victorian Architecture
1. Auflage
Erschienen am 11. Oktober 2013
308 Seiten
978-1-136-18115-3 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
The colonial architecture of the nineteenth century has much to tell us of the history of colonialism and cultural exchange. Yet, these buildings can be read in many ways. Do they stand as witnesses to the rapacity and self-delusion of empire? Are they monuments to a world of lost glory and forgotten convictions? Do they reveal battles won by indigenous cultures and styles? Or do they simply represent an architectural style made absurdly incongruous in relocation?
Empire Building is a study of how and why Western architecture was exported to the Middle East and how Islamic and Byzantine architectural ideas and styles impacted on the West.
The book explores how far racial theory and political and religious agendas guided British architects (and how such ideas were resisted when applied), and how Eastern ideas came to influence the West, through writers such as Ruskin and buildings such as the Crystal Palace.
Beautifully written and lavishly illustrated, Empire Building takes the reader on an extraordinary postcolonial journey, backwards and forwards, into the heart and to the edge of empire.
Empire Building is a study of how and why Western architecture was exported to the Middle East and how Islamic and Byzantine architectural ideas and styles impacted on the West.
The book explores how far racial theory and political and religious agendas guided British architects (and how such ideas were resisted when applied), and how Eastern ideas came to influence the West, through writers such as Ruskin and buildings such as the Crystal Palace.
Beautifully written and lavishly illustrated, Empire Building takes the reader on an extraordinary postcolonial journey, backwards and forwards, into the heart and to the edge of empire.
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Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
London
Großbritannien
Verlagsgruppe
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Dateigröße
8,30 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-18115-3 (9781136181153)
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08/1996
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08/1996
1. Auflage
Routledge
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Person
Mark Crinson
Inhalt
Introduction; Part I: Orientalism and Architecture; 1: Useful Knowledge; 2: South-Savage; 3: Oriental Byzantium; Part II: Architecture and the Orient; Preface; 4: Architecture in Captivity; 5: The Spectacle of Alliance; 6: Dignified Progress; 7: New Jerusalems; Conclusion
