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Автор: Headley, Gwyn Meulenkamp, Wim
Название: English folly
ISBN: 9781789622126
Издательство: Liverpool university press
Классификация:

Архитектурный облик и дизайн

Ландшафтное искусство и архитектура

ISBN-10: 1789622123
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 260
Вес: 0.72 кг.
Дата издания: 24.06.2020
Серия: Historic england
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 150 illustrations, color; 150 illustrations, color
Размер: 23.88 x 16.76 x 1.52 cm
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: The edifice complex
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: If this were a novel, the tales of astounding wealth, sexual perversion, murder, munificence, rape, insanity, brutality, slavery, religious mania, selfishness, snobbery, charity, suicide, generosity, theft, madness, wickedness, failure and eccentricity which unfold in these pages would be too
concentrated to allow for the willing suspension of disbelief. All these sins and virtues, and more, are displayed by the characters in this book, some exhibiting several of them simultaneously. Folly builders were not as we are. They never built what we now call follies. They built for beauty,
utility, improvement; it is only we, struggling after them with our imperfect understanding, who dismiss their prodigious constructions as follies. Follies can be found around the world, but England is their spiritual home. Having written the definitive books on follies in Great Britain, Benelux and
the USA, Headley & Meulenkamp have turned their attention to the folly builders themselves, people so blinded by fashion or driven by some nameless ideology that they expended great fortunes on making their point in brick, stone and flint. Most follies are simply misunderstood buildings, and this
book studies the motives, characters, decisions and delusions of their builders. If there was madness in their building, fortunately there was no method in it.

English folly, Headley, Gwyn Meulenkamp, Wim