Title: An Insular Rococo: Architecture, Politics, and Society in Ireland and England 1710-1770
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Publication Date: 1999
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1861890443
ISBN 13: 9781861890443
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: very good
Weight: 44 ounces

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Between 1710 and 1770, the inventive, ornate Rococo style should, in the natural course of events, have been Britain's prevailing decorative style. This is the first book to describe and explain its oddly frustrated course in England and, in vivid contrast, its brilliant flourishing in Ireland. The authors' controversial claim is that Ireland not only devised its own form of "insular" Rococo, but exported this mode successfully in a gesture of cultural colonialism to the West of England. Their book shows that the Irish were, far more effectively than the English, participants in the European consensus of the Rococo period.

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Timothy Mowl is a Fellow in the Department of History of Art at the University of Bristol. He is the author of William Beckford (1998) and, with Brian Earnshaw, of Architecture Without Kings: The Rise of Puritan Classicism under Cromwell (1995).

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