Country House Essays
Author | : Oswald John F. Crawfurd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Country life |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Oswald John F. Crawfurd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Country life |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Phillip Dyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2021-10-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781956964059 |
Country House Essays is an eclectic collection of original and historical essays, book excerpts, articles, and poems created for the enjoyment of visitors to the reading site CountyHouseEssays.com which is maintained by the Publisher of Piranesi Press. Purchasing a copy of this book is a great way for readers to support the (nearly) ad-free site which has been up and running since 2018. The ads are in house.
Author | : P. Dyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2021-09-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Country House Essays is a collection of original essays and poems by P.Dyer, editor of CountryHouseEssays.com, and other historical writings that are in the public domain from books, newspapers, journals and reports.
Author | : Mary Miers |
Publisher | : Rizzoli International publication |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2009-10-06 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Sixty-two stunning houses in a range of architectural styles spanning seven centuries are brought to life through glorious imagery from the photography library of Country Life magazine.
Author | : Terence Dooley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2021-07-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781846829758 |
This volume of essays explores a range of country house collections in Ireland, the UK, US and Europe. It examines how collections were built up over time, how they were dispersed or destroyed, and how they have been interpreted and valued. Among the topics considered are the impact of exhibitions, auctions, and tax systems, private versus institutional collectors, the range of audiences who appreciate art, and how collections are made to tell national stories.
Author | : Matthew Dimmock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2018-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781526127129 |
Now available in paperback, The intellectual culture of the English country house is a ground-breaking collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars, which uncovers the vibrant intellectual life of early modern provincial England. The essays explore architectural planning; libraries and book collecting; landscape gardening; interior design; the history of science and scientific experimentation; and the collection of portraits and paintings. The volume demonstrate the significance of the English country house (e.g. Knole House, Castle Howard, Penshurst Place) and its place within larger local cultures that it helped to create and shape. It provides a substantial overview of the country house culture of early modern England and the complicated relationship between the provinces and the national, the country and the city, in a period of rapid social, intellectual and economic transformation.
Author | : Terence A. M. Dooley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Aristocracy (Social class) |
ISBN | : 9781846826474 |
In recent years, the role of women in country houses and estates across Ireland and the UK has been the focus of greater attention. Chatelaines, mothers, wives, daughters, widows, sisters, housekeepers, and maids were ever-present figures in the microcosm of the country house. New research has begun to reveal the extent of their involvement in managing households and estates, influencing design, adopting public roles, championing good causes, as well as raising families and committing their thoughts to paper in literary expression. This volume of essays, many of which draw on hitherto unseen family archives, will bring new perspectives to our understanding of the country house as a place where many women often held powerful roles. Contributors include: Amy Boyinton (U Cambridge), Kerry Bristol (U Leeds), Philip Bull (La Trobe U, Melbourne), Anne Casement (ind.), Jonathan Cherry (Maynooth U), Arlene Crampsie (Maynooth U), Caroline Dakers (Central St Martins), William Fraher (U Limerick), Judith Hill (Trinity College Dublin), Edmund Joyce (Carlow IT ), Ruth Larsen (U Derby), Anna Pilz (University College Cork), Lowri Ann Rees (Bangor U), Ciar���¡n Reilly (Maynooth U), Regina Sexton (University College Cork), Brendan Twomey (Trinity College Dublin), and Fiona White (Galway-Mayo IT). [Subject: History, Women's History, Gender Studies, Archives, Home Design, Sociology, Irish Studies, British Studies]
Author | : Vincent Scully |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780691074429 |
Vincent Scully has shaped not only how we view the evolution of architecture in the twentieth century but also the course of that evolution itself. Combining the modes of historian and critic in unique and compelling ways--with an audience that reaches from students and scholars to professional architects and ardent amateurs--Scully has profoundly influenced the way architecture is thought about and made. This extensively illustrated and elegantly designed volume distills Scully's incalculable contribution. Neil Levine, a former student of Scully's, selects twenty essays that reveal the breadth and depth of Scully's work from the 1950s through the 1990s. The pieces are included for their singular contribution to our understanding of modern architecture as well as their relative unavailability to current readers. Levine offers a perceptive overview of Scully's distinguished career and introduces each essay, skillfully setting the scholarly and cultural scene. The selections address almost all of modern architecture's major themes and together go a long way toward defining what constitutes the contemporary experience of architecture and urbanism. Each is characteristically Scully--provocative, yet precise in detail and observation, written with passionate clarity. They document Scully's seminal views on the relationship between the natural and the built environment and trace his progressively intense concern with the fabric of the street and of our communities. The essays also highlight Scully's engagement with the careers of so many of the twentieth century's most significant architects, from Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn to Robert Venturi. In the tradition of great intellectual biographies, this finely made book chronicles our most influential architectural historian and critic. It is a gift to architecture and its history.
Author | : Joan Coutu |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2023-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0228014972 |
Politics has always been at the heart of the English country house, in its design and construction, as well as in the activities and experiences of those who lived in and visited these places. As Britain moved from an agrarian to an imperial economy over the course of the eighteenth century, the home mirrored the social change experienced in the public sphere. This collection focuses on the relationship between the country house and the mutable nature of British politics in the eighteenth century. Essays explore the country house as a stage for politicking, a vehicle for political advancement, a symbol of party allegiance or political values, and a setting for appropriate lifestyles. Initially the exclusive purview of the landed aristocracy, politics increasingly came to be played out in the open, augmented by the emergence of career politicians – usually untitled members of the patriciate – and men of new money, much of it created on Caribbean plantations or in the employ of the East India Company. Politics and the English Country House, 1688–1800 reveals how, during this period of profound change, the country house remained a constant. The country house was the definitive tangible manifestation of social standing and, for the political class, owning one became almost an imperative. In its consideration of the country house as lived and spatial experience, as an aesthetic and symbolic object, and as an economic engine, this book offers a new perspective on the complexity of political meaning embedded in the eighteenth-century country house – and on ourselves as active recipients and interpreters of its various narratives, more than two centuries later.
Author | : Andrew Jackson Downing |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 1853 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : |