William Kent : designing Georgian Britain / edited by Susan Weber ; with contributions by Catherine Arbuthnott [and 14 others]

Weber, Susan [editor]

2013, 1st edition. New Haven : Yale University Press. Fine copy in the original colour-printed boards, backed in gilt-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Literally as new. Item #443791

Physical description; xiii, 688 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm. Contents; Introduction: evaluations and reassessments of William Kent: a historiography / Susan Weber -- Chronology -- William Kent: a life / John Harris -- The royal court, political culture, and the art of friendship, c.1685-1750 / Clarissa Campbell Orr -- Kent's patrons / Catherine Arbuthnott -- Kent and Italy / Steven Brindle -- Kent the painter / Steven Brindle -- Architectural and ornamental draftsman / John Harris -- Town houses / David Watkin -- From 'gusto' to 'Kentissime': Kent's designs for country houses, villas, and lodges / Julius Bryant -- A note on 'Kent' frames / Julius Bryant -- Kent and the Gothic Revival / Roger White -- Royal commissions / Steven Brindle -- The royal barge / Geoffrey Beard and John Hardy -- Public commissions / Frank Salmon -- Landscape architecture / John Dixon Hunt -- Garden buildings / John Harris -- Kent as book illustrator / Nick Savage -- The well of inspiration: sources for Kent's furniture designs / Susan Weber -- Kent and the Georgian Baroque style in furniture: domestic commissions / Susan Weber -- Kent's metalwork designs / Michael Snodin -- Exempla vertutis: designs for sculpture / Julius Bryant -- The legacy / Tim Knox. Subjects; Kent, William 1685-1748 Criticism and interpretation. Kent, William 1685?-1748 ; Expositions. Kent, William (English architect, landscape gardener, and painter, 1684 or 1685-1748) Criticism and interpretation. Architecture Great Britain History 18th century ; Exhibitions. Landscape architecture Great Britain History 18th century ; Exhibitions. Furniture Great Britain History 18th century ; Exhibitions. British architect designer eighteenth century. Kent, William, 1685-1748-Exhibitions.

Price: €225.00