Architecture and Image-Building in Seventeenth-Century Hertfordshire
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 8 January 2004
- ISBN 9780199263868
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 241x162x18 mm
- Weight 525 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 24pp halftone plates, numerous maps and plans 0
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Short description:
The seventeenth-century witnessed a radical and far-reaching transformation of English architecture as new forms of classical design swept away earlier fashions. Paul Hunneyball's ground-breaking interdisciplinary study reveals how this dramatic change came about, by reconstructing for the first time a complete cross-section of building activity in a single county.
MoreLong description:
The seventeenth century witnessed a radical and far-reaching transformation in English architecture, as new and purer forms of classical design became firmly established, sweeping away earlier fashions. How this dramatic change came about at local level has never been fully understood. Using Hertfordshire as a case-study, this ground-breaking, interdisciplinary book reconstructs the complete built landscape--not just houses but churches, momnnuments, and almshouses--to reveal a competitive and visually sensitive environment in which people at all social levels exploited architectural display to enhance their personal image. New fashions were an important weapon in this struggle. Because only the county elite possessed the necessary contacts and resources to obtain the latest classical designs, such patterns became badges of status, symbols not just of cultural aspirations but of social ambition. Paul Hunneyball demonstrates that classical architecture caught on at local level less because it was aesthetically superior than because its advocates were socially superior.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
Architecture as a Mirror of Society
Patrons and the Exercise of Choice
Stylistic Innovation: Processes and Constraints
Stylistic Dissemination: Strategies and Perceptions
Community Projects and the Limits of Elite Display
Taste and Aspirations at Sub-Gentry Level
Styles and Meanings
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
