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Title:
EMPIRE BUILDING
ORIENTALISM AND VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE
By:
Mark Crinson
Format:
Hardback
List price:
£145.00
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ISBN 10:
0415139406
ISBN 13:
9780415139403
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Publisher:
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Pub. date:
22 August, 1996
Pages:
304
Description:
Empire Building is a study of how and why western architecture was exported to the East and how Islamic and Byzantine architectural ideas and styles impacted on the West.
Synopsis:
The colonial architecture of the nineteenth century has much to tell us of the history of colonialism and cultural exchange. Yet, these buildings can be read in many ways. Do they stand as witnesses to the rapacity and self-delusion of empire? Are they monuments to a world of lost glory and forgotten convictions? Do they reveal battles won by indigenous cultures and styles? Or do they simply represent an architectural style made absurdly incongruous in relocation? Empire Building is a study of how and why Western architecture was exported to the Middle East and how Islamic and Byzantine architectural ideas and styles impacted on the West. The book explores how far racial theory and political and religious agendas guided British architects (and how such ideas were resisted when applied), and how Eastern ideas came to influence the West, through writers such as Ruskin and buildings such as the Crystal Palace. Beautifully written and lavishly illustrated, Empire Building takes the reader on an extraordinary postcolonial journey, backwards and forwards, into the heart and to the edge of empire.
Illustrations:
30 line illustrations, 90 b&w photographs
Publication:
UK
Imprint:
Routledge
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