C.R. Mackintosh : The Poetics of Workmanship (Essays in Art and Culture)

C.R. Mackintosh : The Poetics of Workmanship (Essays in Art and Culture)

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Book Description
Between 1896 and 1906, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928) produced a series of buildings and interiors in and around Glasgow of such startling invention that he immediately established himself as one of the truly great figures in early twentieth-century architecture and design. David Brett argues that Mackintosh's originality was grounded in a highly subjective "poetics of workmanship", in which the structure, features, interiors and furnishings of each individual building became subject to a unifying system of forms, metaphors and unconscious associations. The system Mackintosh evolved allowing for the formulation of an almost infinite series of ensembles.After focusing on the various decorative details and interior spaces of Mackintosh's buildings the author reaches to the heart of Mackintosh's poetic system – the suffused eroticism of the sleek, "feminine" and intensely private "white interiors". A notable feature of this persuasive reappraisal of Mackintosh's work is the wealth of photographs by the author showing rarely featured details of buildings, interiors and furnishings.

C.R. Mackintosh: The Poetics of Workmanship (Essays in Art and Culture),David Brett,C.R. Mackintosh,Harvard University Press,0674540662,Architecture,Art,Crafts & Hobbies,General,Individual Architect,Interior Design - General,Architecture / General,Handicrafts,History Of Art / Art & Design Styles,Interior design

Book Contents:

1. Cultural Episcopacy and Ecumenism: Representative Ministry in Church History from the Age of Ignatius of Antioch to the Reformation With Special Ref (Studies in Christian Mission)
2. Decorating With Pictures
3. Der Briefwechsel Zwischen Augustinus and Hieronumus and Ihr Streit Um Den Kanon Des Alten Testaments and Die Auslegung Von Gal., 11-14 (Vigiliae Chri)
4. Der Ikonoklasmus Des Westens (Studies in the History of Christian Thought; Vol 41)
5. Die Apokryph Gewordenen Evangelien: Studien Zu Neuen Texten Und Zu Neuen Fragen (Supplements to Novum Testamentum)
6. Die Entdeckte Natur: Untersuchungen Zu Begrundungsversuchen Einer "Scientia Naturalis" Im 12. Jahrhundert (Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters)
7. Die Macht Der Weisheit: Das Bild Des Bischofs in Der Vita Augustini Des Possidius Und Anderen Spataniken Und Fruhmittelalterlichen Bischofsviten (Studies in the History of Christian Thought)
8. Divine Power and Possibility in St. Peter Damian's De Divina Omnipotentia (Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters)
9. Early Indian Terracottas (Iconography of Religions Section X North America)
10. Educational Strategies Among Muslims in the Context of Globalization: Some National Case Studies (Muslim Minorities, V. 3)

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