Building Greater Britain: Architecture, Imperialism, and the Edwardian Baroque Revival, 1885 - 1920 Bremner G. A.
This innovative study reappraises the Edwardian Baroque movement in British architecture, placing it in its wider cultural, political, and imperial contextsThe Edwardian Baroque was the closest…
Specifikacia Building Greater Britain: Architecture, Imperialism, and the Edwardian Baroque Revival, 1885 - 1920 Bremner G. A.
This innovative study reappraises the Edwardian Baroque movement in British architecture, placing it in its wider cultural, political, and imperial contextsThe Edwardian Baroque was the closest British architecture ever came to achieving an "imperial" style. With the aim of articulating British global power and prestige, it adorned civic and commercial structures both in Britain and in the wider British world, especially in the "white settler" Dominions of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and South Africa.Evoking the contemporary and emotive idea of "Greater Britain," this new book by distinguished historian G. A. Bremner represents a major, groundbreaking study of this intriguing architectural movement in Britain and its empire. It explores the Edwardian Baroque's significance as a response to the growing tide of anxiety over Britain's place in the world, its widely