Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852) exercised a seminal
influence on British architecture in the nineteenth century,
though, as he himself acknowledged towards the end of his short
life, it was probably more through his writing than through his
buildings that he had 'revolushioned the Taste of England'. Pugin's
important theoretical and polemical texts contain little by way of
autobiography or description and comment on his own architecture.
For these we must turn to his journalism and pamphlets. In The
Present State of Ecclesiastical Architecture in England, he gives
us some minutely detailed accounts with illustrations of his
churches up to the year 1842. But his most revealing
autobiographical writing is to be found in Some Remarks, published
in 1850, which can be seen as essential for understanding the man
and his collapse. It takes the story almost to the end of his life,
includes an account of his conversion to Catholicism (1835), and
describes many of the churches that he built between 1838 and 1850.
Together they offer the most comprehensive contemporary guide to
Pugin's architecture and a fascinating account of his campaign to
revive the glories of the pre-Reformation Catholic Church in the
context of the nineteenth-century Romantic Movement and the
Catholic Revival. Never reprinted, Some Remarks is here presented
in facsimile together with The Present State, and an introduction
by the architectural historian and noted Pugin authority Dr Rory
O'Donnell FSA - who has also written the introductions to the other
volumes in this series of Pugin fascsimile editions.
General
Imprint: |
Gracewing
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
April 2004 |
First published: |
April 2004 |
Authors: |
A.N. Pugin
|
Editors: |
R. O'Donell
|
Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
272 |
Edition: |
Facsimile edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-85244-626-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Architecture >
Religious buildings
|
LSN: |
0-85244-626-8 |
Barcode: |
9780852446263 |
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