Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Life and Work

Macauley, James

ISBN 10: 0393051757 / ISBN 13: 9780393051759

Published by W.W. Norton & Co., New York and London, 2010

About this Item

304 pages 144 illustrations in color. Color Photographs by Mark Fiennes. List of Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Chronology.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Life and Work
• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co., New York and London
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393051757
• ISBN 13: 9780393051759
• Binding: Cloth
• Condition: Fine Condition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Condition
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

A major architectural study of one of the pioneers of modernism.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh was Scotland’s greatest architect and arguably one of the world’s most admired. He had far fewer commissions than his contemporary Frank Lloyd Wright, but with a few bold and innovative structures―the Glasgow School of Art and Hill House among them―he had a profound influence on art and architecture at the turn of the twentieth century. Like Wright, Mackintosh designed in totality, down to the furniture and fabrics used in his structures, and he was influenced by the Japanese, particularly in the simplicity of his designs and themes from nature.

Hailed as a pioneer of modernism, Mackintosh was, however, perhaps truer to the Arts and Crafts movement than has been realized. With both historic photographs and modern images of Mackintosh’s major works taken by the noted architectural photographer Mark Fiennes, this is an essential and beautiful addition to the Mackintosh canon and to architectural history.

50 four-color and 120 black-and-white photographs and illustrations

About the Author

James Macaulay is a former senior lecturer at the Mackintosh School of Architecture and former chairman of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain and the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland.