This book studies the development of mechanised architectural ornament in iron in nineteenth-century architecture, its reception and theorisation, and the contexts in which it flourished. As such, it offers new ways of understanding the notion of modernity in Victorian architecture.
This book studies the development of mechanised architectural ornament in iron in nineteenth-century architecture, its reception and theorisation, and the contexts in which it flourished. As such, it offers new ways of understanding the notion of modernity in Victorian architecture.
Paul Dobraszczyk is Research Associate in Art History & Visual Studies, University of Manchester, UK.
Inhaltsangabe
Contents: Introduction: ornament unbound Marketing ornament: iron founders and visual cultures of display Social ornament: iron on the street Demotic ornament: seaside ironworlds Civic ornament: arcades and market halls Meta-ornament: iron and the railway station Postscript: ornament in ruins Bibliography Index.
Contents: Introduction: ornament unbound Marketing ornament: iron founders and visual cultures of display Social ornament: iron on the street Demotic ornament: seaside ironworlds Civic ornament: arcades and market halls Meta-ornament: iron and the railway station Postscript: ornament in ruins Bibliography Index.
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