Tomb-yard Follies

Tomb-yard Follies
Author: Jim Webster
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2016-02-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1785383884

Mapping an old family graveyard was a technically complicated job Benor expected would take him some time. But then he hadn't allowed for getting caught up in a world of intrigue, vengeance, and arbitrary justice...

Follies & Grottoes

Follies & Grottoes
Author: Barbara Jones
Publisher: Constable & Robinson
Total Pages: 480
Release: 1974
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

This revised edition of a book which lists follies and grottoes in Great Britain and Ireland gives dates and a brief description of each one. The illustrations are from old prints and engravings, architectural plans and photographs.

Follies in America

Follies in America
Author: Kerry Dean Carso
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2021-08-15
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1501755951

Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as "follies," from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration in 1876. In a period of increasing nationalism, follies—such as temples, summerhouses, towers, and ruins—brought a range of European architectural styles to the United States. By imprinting the land with symbols of European culture, landscape gardeners brought their idea of civilization to the American wilderness. Kerry Dean Carso's interdisciplinary approach in Follies in America examines both buildings and their counterparts in literature and art, demonstrating that follies provide a window into major themes in nineteenth-century American culture, including tensions between Jeffersonian agrarianism and urban life, the ascendancy of middle-class tourism, and gentility and social class aspirations.

Building Histories

Building Histories
Author: Mrinalini Rajagopalan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2017-03-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 022633189X

Building Histories offers innovative accounts of five medieval monuments in Delhi—the Red Fort, Rasul Numa Dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana Qila, and the Qutb complex—tracing their modern lives from the nineteenth century into the twentieth. Mrinalini Rajagopalan argues that the modern construction of the history of these monuments entailed the careful selection, manipulation, and regulation of the past by both the colonial and later postcolonial states. Although framed as objective “archival” truths, these histories were meant to erase or marginalize the powerful and persistent affective appropriations of the monuments by groups who often existed outside the center of power. By analyzing these archival and affective histories together, Rajagopalan works to redefine the historic monument—far from a symbol of a specific past, the monument is shown in Building Histories to be a culturally mutable object with multiple stories to tell.

Housing the New Romans

Housing the New Romans
Author: Katharine T. von Stackelberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2017-06-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0190272341

In the last twenty years, reception studies have significantly enhanced our understanding of the ways in which Classics has shaped modern Western culture, but very little attention has been directed toward the reception of classical architecture. Housing the New Romans: Architectual Reception and Classical Style in the Modern World addresses this gap by investigating ways in which appropriation and allusion facilitated the reception of Classical Greece and Rome through the requisition and redeployment of classicizing tropes to create neo-Antique sites of "dwelling" in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The volume, across nine essays, will cover both European and American iterations of place making, including Sir John Soanes' house in London, the Hôtel de Beauharnais in Paris, and the Getty Villa in California. By focusing on structures and places that are oriented towards private life-houses, hotels, clubs, tombs, and gardens-the volume directs the critical gaze towards diverse and complex sites of curatorial self-fashioning. The goal of the volume is to provide a multiplicity of interpretative frameworks (e.g. object-agency enchantment, hyperreality, memory-infrastructure) that may be applied to the study of architectural reception. This critical approach makes Housing the New Romans the first work of its kind in the emerging field of architectural and landscape reception studies and in the hitherto textually dominated field of classical reception.