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Author Arnold, Dana.

Title Reading architectural history / Dana Arnold.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 229 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-224) and index.
Contents Reading the past : what is architectural history? What is history? / EH Carr ; The fictions of factual representation / Hayden White -- The authority of the author : biography and the reconstruction of the canon. Biographical dictionary / Sir Howard Colvin ; What is an author? / Michel Foucault -- On classical ground : histories of style. Architecture in Britain, 1530-1830 / Sir John Summerson ; Art history and class struggle / Nicos Hadjinicolaou -- A class performance : social histories of architecture. Life in the English country house / Mark Girouard ; In search of cultural history / EH Gombrich --The illusion of inclusion : the guidebook and historic architecture. The buildings of England / Sir Nikolaus Pevsner ; The Blue Guide / Roland Barthes -- Reading architectural herstories : the discourses of gender. Sexism and the star system in architecture / Denise Scott Brown ; Planning and representation in the early modern country house / Alice T Friedman.
Summary Reading Architectural History examines the historiographic and social/cultural implications of the mapping of British architectural history with particular reference to eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain.
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Subject Architecture -- Historiography.
Architecture -- Historiography.
Architecture -- England -- 18th century.
Architecture.
England.
Chronological Term 18th century
1700-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Arnold, Dana. Reading architectural history. London ; New York : Routledge, 2002 0415250498 0415250501 (DLC) 2002072701 (OCoLC)49936181
ISBN 0203164474 (electronic book)
9780203164471 (electronic book)
0203258614
9780203258613
128005669X
9781280056697
0415250498 (Cloth)
0415250501 (Paper)
9786610056699
6610056692