Brian Lukacher

Joseph Gandy

An Architectural Visionary in Georgian England

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Joseph Gandy dreams of being a great architect were frustrated, and his fame rests on the imaginative power of his unrealized projects, on his superbly imagined reconstruction of Greek and Roman buildings and on the drawings in which he brought Sir John Soanes most extravagant ideas to vivid life. This book deals with his life and work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 288mm x 257mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1666g
• ISBN-13: 9780500342213
• ISBN-10: 0500342210
• Artikelnr.: 21027845

Autorenporträt

Brian Lukacher is professor of art at Vassar College. He is the co-author, with Stephen F. Eisenman and others, of Nineteenth Century Art, also published by Thames & Hudson.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 traces his early training and foreign travel
Chapter 2 his obsession with sepulchres and monuments
Chapter 3 his doomed efforts to be an architect
Chapter 4 the huge canvases in which he sought to recreate the classical world
Chapter 5 his partnership with Soane, who owed him so much
and Chapter 6 his eccentric and finally demented quest to construct a unified theory of the history of architecture.