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Автор: DakersНазвание: CloudsПеревод названия: Облака ISBN: 9780300057768Издательство: Wiley yUPКлассификация:
ISBN-10: 0300057768
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover Страницы: 296 Вес: 1.18 кг. Дата издания: 01/10/1993 Язык: English Читательская аудитория: General (US: Trade)Professional & VocationalPostgr Поставляется из: Англии Описание: This book is essentially a study of British aristocratic and artistic patronage of the arts in the under-explored period after 1850, approached through an intensive
look at a single house - Clouds, known as the house of the age. It was built by the glamorous and unconventionally gifted Percy and Madeline Wyndham, and designed by Philip
Webb, one of Britains greatest architects. It became one of the centres of artistic and political life in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain, and set the style for a whole generation of
country house living.
Dakers recreates the atmosphere and the lives lived in the house, the personalities of its three generations of Wyndham owners, and the succession of
distinguished guests drawn to it - Henry James, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Kipling, Whistler and Lord Alfred Douglas, amongst many others. She tracks the decline in the tradition of
aristocratic patronage through a decline in the fortunes of Clouds itself - by the 1930s, the palace of art was a vast white elephant, and the house was sold to an institution, its
treasures dispersed and its structure dynamited into a more usable space.
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