From the shadows : the architecture and afterlife of Nicholas Hawksmoor / Owen Hopkins.

Main entry:

Hopkins, Owen, 1984-

Title & Author:

From the shadows : the architecture and afterlife of Nicholas Hawksmoor / Owen Hopkins.

Publication:

London : Reaktion Books, 2015.

Description:

342 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-331) and index.
Introduction : The man and the myth -- Emergence -- Achievement -- Falling into shadow -- Neglect and rehabilitation -- Into the light -- Rebirth -- Hawksmoor today,

Summary:

Nicholas Hawksmoor (1662-1736) is considered one of Britain's greatest architects. He was involved in the grandest architectural projects of his age and today is best known for his London churches - six idiosyncratic edifices of white Portland stone that remain standing today, proud and tall in the otherwise radically changed cityscape. Until comparatively recently, however, Hawksmoor was thought to be, at best, a second-rate talent: merely Sir Christopher Wren's slightly odd apprentice, or the practically minded assistant to Sir John Vanbrugh. This book brings to life the dramatic story of Hawksmoor's resurrection from the margins of history. Charting Hawksmoor's career and the decline of his reputation, Owen Hopkins offers fresh interpretations of many of his famous works - notably his three East End churches - and shows how over their history Hawksmoor's buildings have been ignored, abused, altered, recovered and celebrated. Hopkins also charts how, as Hawksmoor returned to prominence during the twentieth century, his work caught the eye of observers as diverse as T.S. Eliot, James Stirling, Robert Venturi and, most famously, Peter Ackroyd, whose novel Hawksmoor (1985) popularized the mythical association of his work with the occult. Meanwhile, passionate campaigns were mounted to save and restore Hawksmoor's churches, reflecting the strange hold his architecture can have over observers. There is surely no other body of work in British architectural history with the same capacity to intrigue and inspire, perplex and provoke as Hawksmoor's has done for nearly three centuries.

ISBN:

1780235151
9781780235158

Subject:

Hawksmoor, Nicholas, 1661-1736.
Architects England Biography.
Architectes Angleterre Biographies.
Architecture and Planning.
Architects
England

Form/genre:

Biographies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291282
Call No.: BIB 234765
Status: Available

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