9780948975134 - John Wood: Architect of Obsession von Mowl, Tim; Earnshaw, Brian (9 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1000grams, ISBN:094897513X.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. A clean, tight copy. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 224 pages.

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1050grams, ISBN:9780948975134.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Gut. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: mit Schutzumschlag. 1st ed. 213x296 mm. Erste Auflage, 224 p. Hardcover. Blue linen, gilt letters on spine. Dust jacket. Sprache: Englisch, 120 black and white illustrations. In good general condition. Discrete bumps to spine. DJ with smaller rips and creasings. Clean inside. USADO / GEBRAUCHT / USED. 0,95 kg! Frontispiece: The masonic symbol of a flaming sun in the triangle of the Trinity circled by the serpent of eternity, from the Tyberton altar. Front cover ill.: The King's Circus, Bath. John Wood (1704-1754). With appendices, bibliography and index. John Wood has been sidetracked from the mainstream of architectural studies for just one reason. The most successful town-planner of English 18th century architects was ferociously eccentric. Most great architects cultivate the image of a well-balanced professional. Wood, in contrast, rode wildly through the night to mourn over the corpse of a lady lodger who had hung herself with a silk scarf in his front parlour. While reshaping an entire Welsh cathedral to the dimensions of Solomon's Temple, he prised open the tomb of a Celtic saint to gaze wonderingly on the mouldering remains. A fervent Freemason, he revived certain mystical emblems of Stuart religiosity and carved them on a major building project to evoke the sun worship of a lost Druid civilization which owed everything to his imagination, nothing to reality. The very idea that Bath, his grand artefact and a byword for classical order, should owe as much to prehistoric stone circles and the Second Temple in Jerusalem strains credibility. But that is the historic truth explained here through Wood's own writing and a whole body of unpublished material. Wood was not a true Augustan. He was a first generation Romantic, a natural Goth condemned by his birth date to express himself in classical forms. These paradoxes explain why this is the first biography of John Wood to be attempted in the two centuries since his death. His inspiration was a formidable series of improbabilities which most architectural historians have politely ignored and which his native city has deliberately rejected. To understand the man demands a re-examination of early Palladianism in England. Today, while argument rages over the morality and exact forms of revived Classicism, the time is right for an appraisal of the unconventional mind that created the most enduring of our designer cities. (Text from DJ) [John Wood+arquitecture+Architektur+arquitecture+Mowl+Earnshaw+Great Britain+18th century+Palladianism+Bath]. ** 10% DESCUENTO/RABATT/DISCOUNT PRIMAVERA * excl. New German Books * * * * 29,70 (original price 33,00) **.

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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Provenance; from the library of Laurence with the owner's armorial bookplate and inscriptions. Physical description; 224 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-220) and index. Subjects; Wood, John (1704-1754) Criticism and interpretation. Wood, John (approximately 1704-1754). Palladio, Andrea (1508-1580) Influence. Wood, John (ca. 1704-1754) Criticism and interpretation. Architecture, Georgian England. Architecture, England, 18th Century : (1700-1750). Civic Architecture, 18th Century - England. Architecture England 18th century. Architecture, English England Bath. Architects ; Biography. England. Bath (England) Description. Bath (Avon) History. Bath (England) Buildings, structures, etc. Somerset (England) - Post-medieval - Architecture. Bath (England) History. Great Britain. Bath (England) Architecture. England Architectural design Wood, John, (ca. 1704-1754). Wood, John, I, (1704-1754). England. Architectural design. Wood, John. architecture classical eighteenth-century Bath. England : Georgian architecture. Architecture Domestic British Isles 18th century. Architecture British Isles 18th century. Genre; Criticism, interpretation, etc. 3 Kg.