Main entry:

Mowl, Tim.

Title & Author:

An insular rococo : architecture, politics and society in Ireland and England, 1710-1770 / Timothy Mowl and Brian Earnshaw.

Publication:

London : Reaktion, 1999.

Description:

ix, 358 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- reservations and explanations -- The trouble with the Palladian -- Three villas to the rococo -- The garden as an expression of rococo revolt -- A wandering bishop -- Gothick and rococo -- the early days of a subversive duo -- Bristol -- the unsophisticated city -- Dublin -- the Protestant city -- The playgirl of the Western world -- Lord Chesterfield and Dublin -- the Ciceronian viceroy -- Renaissance on the North Bank -- Wide streets and an embarrassment of riches -- The Irish Country house as a commentary on the urban rococo -- Rococo as the art form of bourgeois capitalism -- Rococo in the Bristol hinterland -- The faltering course of English rococo -- References -- Accessibility and the rococo : a gazetteer.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"Between 1710 and 1770, the Rococo style should, in the normal course of events, have been Britain's prevailing decorative style, at once inventive, ornate, elegant and playful. This is the first book to describe and explain its oddly frustrated course in England and, in vivid contrast, its brilliant flourishing in Ireland. Architectural historians have tried to make the best of the Palladian Revival that occurred after 1714. But in fact Palladianism was a cultural disaster, a retrograde step imposed upon a chauvinistic ruling class which left England dependent for the internal decor of its aristocratic houses on memories of ruined Roman baths or the improvisations of itinerant Italo-Swiss stucco workers. England's eventual response to the decorative failings of Palladianism was the 'Gothick'. Ireland, more sophisticated in the technical education of its craftsmen and artists, not only devised its own subtle 'insular' Rococo, but exported this mode successfully to the West of England in a gesture of cultural colonialism."--Jacket.

ISBN:

1861890443
9781861890443

Subject:

Architecture, Rococo Social aspects England.
Architecture, Rococo Social aspects Ireland.
Architecture, Rococo England History 18th century.
Architecture, Rococo Ireland History 18th century.
Decorative arts, Rococo England History 18th century.
Decorative arts, Rococo Ireland History 18th century.
Architecture rococo Aspect social Angleterre.
Architecture rococo Aspect social Irlande.
Architecture rococo Angleterre Histoire 18e siècle.
Architecture rococo Irlande Histoire 18e siècle.
Arts décoratifs rococo Angleterre Histoire 18e siècle.
Arts décoratifs rococo Irlande Histoire 18e siècle.
Architecture, Rococo.
Decorative arts, Rococo.
Architektur
Rokoko
Bouwkunst.
Kunstnijverheid.
Rococo.
Architecture, Rococo Great Britain.
Architecture, Rococo Ireland.
Architecture Great Britain 18th century.
Architecture Ireland 18th century.
Decorative arts, Rococo Great Britain.
Decorative arts, Rococo Ireland.
Decorative arts Great Britain History 18th century.
Decorative arts Ireland 18th century.
Architecture and society Great Britain 18th century.
Architecture and society Ireland 18th century.
Architecture rococo Angleterre (GB)
Architecture rococo Irlande.
Architecture Angleterre (GB) 18e siècle.
Architecture Irlande 18e siècle.
Arts décoratifs Angleterre (GB) 18e siècle.
Arts décoratifs Irlande 18e siècle.
England.
Ireland.
Irland

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Earnshaw, Brian.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 212884
Call No.: NA987 .M6 1999
Status: Available