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Terms and conditions applyJoseph Gandy: an Architectural Visionary in Georgian England
Brian Lukacher
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Format: Book
Pages: 222
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Date Published: Mar 2006
Stock Code: 57554
Binding: Hardback
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Joseph Gandys life is in many respects the familiar saga of genius unrecognized. Upon his death he seemed to the world, and to himself, a failure. Having begun his career with high hopes, great imagination and exceptional talent, he ended it in 1843 in a state of neglect and obscurity. Yet a century and a half later Gandy's work has waxed in appreciation, and now he is recognised as one of the most original figures of English romanticism.
Works such as his unearthly Pandemonium or the luminous Tomb of Merlin have a hypnotic power that few others could match a power that he brought to bear on Sir John Soanes bizarre Monks Parlour at his renowned house-museum in Lincolns Inn, and on the lost masterpiece of Soanes Bank of England in the City of London, buildings that we have come to see through Gandys eyes. The hallucinatory beauty of his use of colour recalls such artists as Blake and Turner, as well as authorslike Poe, Coleridge and Machen.
Brian Lukacher, the acknowledged authority on Gandy, has now written the definitive life of this architect-artist who exemplified the cultural temper of the romantic period. It is a fresh, deeply researched biography and a critical assessment of Gandys work in its historical context. It is a tragic story but also an inspiring one, and a significant episode in the history of the architectural imagination and the visual arts during the 19th century.
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