Architects, Angels, Activists and the City of Bath, 1765-1965 - Engaging with Women's Spatial Interventions in Buildings and Landscape (Paperback)

A unique contribution to the architectural and social history of Bath, Architects, Angels, Activists and the City of Bath, 1765-1965: Engaging with Women's Spatial Interventions in Buildings and Landscape approaches the past with the methods of the architectural historian and the site-specific interventions of the contemporary artist. Looking beyond and behind Bath's strategic marshalling of its past, Cynthia Imogen Hammond presents the ways in which women across classes shaped the built environment and designed landscapes of one of England's most architecturally significant cities. This study argues that Bath's efforts to preserve itself as an idealized Georgian town reveal an aesthetics of exclusion. Jane Austen may be well known, but the role of historic women in the creation of this city has had minimal treatment within the city's collective, public memory. This book is an intervention into this memory; the author uses site-specific works of public art as strategic counterparts to her historical readings. Through them, she aims to transform as well as critique the urban image of Bath. At once a performative literature, an extensively researched history, and an alternative guide to the city, Architects, Angels, Activists engages with current struggles over urban signification in Bath and beyond.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2016
First published:	2012
Authors:	Cynthia Imogen Hammond
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	296
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-24674-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN:	1-138-24674-3
Barcode:	9781138246744

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