
An Insular Rococo
Timothy Mowl(Author)
Reaktion Books (Publisher)
Published on 5. October 1999
Book
Hardback
358 pages
978-1-86189-044-3 (ISBN)
Description
Between 1710 and 1770, the inventive, ornate Rococo style should, in the natural course of events, have been Britain's prevailing decorative style. This is the first book to describe and explain its oddly frustrated course in England and, in vivid contrast, its brilliant flourishing in Ireland. The authors' controversial claim is that Ireland not only devised its own form of 'insular' Rococo, but exported this mode successfully in a gesture of cultural colonialism to the West of England. Their book shows that the Irish were, far more effectively than the English, participants in the European consensus of the Rococo period.
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`fill[s] in a huge number of blanks for both lay and scholarly readers' - Architects' Journal`a lively, well-illustrated account'-Building Design
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
200 illustrations, 40 in colour
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 188 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-86189-044-3 (9781861890443)
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Person
Timothy Mowl is a Fellow in the Department of History of Art at the University of Bristol. He is the author of William Beckford (1998) and, with Brian Earnshaw, of Architecture Without Kings: The Rise of Puritan Classicism under Cromwell (1995).