Main entry:

Stamp, Gavin.

Title & Author:

Anti-ugly : excursions in English architecture and design / Gavin Stamp.

Publication:

London : Aurum, 2013.

Description:

xi, 260 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
A Vision of England -- Anti-Ugly -- The Curse of Palladio -- Palladian Games -- Surreal Recall -- Guinness isn't Good for You -- Keeping an Open Mind -- Robert Byron -- Cartoon History -- Betjemanic -- Hawksmoor Redivivus -- Shakespeare in Stone -- The Destroyer -- Slightly Subhuman? -- God's Architect -- Midland Grand Hotel -- The Second Greatest Briton? -- The Spirit of Ernest George -- Forgotten Prophet -- Spence's Charm -- Knight's Tale -- Dreaming Towers -- Englishmen's Castles -- Flogging Off the Silver -- Nature Versus Culture -- Gothic Revival -- Inspired Patronage -- Sell the Rubens -- A Tomb for a King -- The Empty Plinth -- A Canova for Today -- Too Many Memorials -- The War Goes On -- Tragic Triumph -- Steam Ahead -- Long Journey's End -- Battlebridge -- Tent for a Prince -- An Artist's Villa -- Villa Frankenstein -- Post-Haste to Closure -- In Carceri -- Taking the Plunge -- Aerial Travellers -- Streamlined -- Bring Back the Railings -- Out With the Old -- Looking After Liverpool -- Dreamland -- Lost Lululaund.

Summary:

For some years Gavin Stamp, one of our most eminent - and readable - architectural historians - has written a monthly column for Apollo, the pre-eminent architecture and fine art magazine. The subjects are simply whatever architectural or design questions happen to take his fancy - it might be the splendid reopening of the magnificent Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras, or the dilapidation of a little-known church in Eastbourne, or the demise of the Routemaster bus, or a paean to wrought-iron railings. Together, this compulsively readable collection builds into an eloquent, learned, trenchant and often indignant portrait of our national design heritage.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9781781311233
1781311234
1781312176 (electronic bk.)
9781781312179 (electronic bk.)

Subject:

Architecture Great Britain.
Design Great Britain.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne.
Design Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture.
Civilization.
Design.
Architektur
Architecture and Planning.
Great Britain Civilization.
Grande-Bretagne Civilisation.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285647
Call No.: BIB 225404
Status: Available