AN INSULAR ROCOCCO: ARCHITECTURE, POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN IRELAND AND ENGLAND, 1710 - 1770

Mowl, Timothy; Earnshaw, Brian

ISBN 10: 1861890443 / ISBN 13: 9781861890443

Published by Reaktion Books, 1999

About this Item

First published in 1999 by Reaktion Books Ltd, London. Hardcover in fine condition. Original publisher's olive green cloth boards with gilt spine printing. Boards with negligible bumping along spine edges due to shelfwear. Contents are complete, tight, clean, crisp and free from annotations, inscriptions or creases. Dust jacket in very good condition, lightly internal edgecreasing and dust spotting. Between 1710 and 1770, the Rococo style should, in the normal course of events, have been Britain's prevailing decorative style, at once inventive, ornate, elegant and playful. This is the first book to describe and explain its oddly frustrated course in England and, in vivid contrast, its brilliant flourishing in Ireland". Additional shipping fee may be requested from international orders.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: AN INSULAR ROCOCCO: 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
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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).