Summerson and Hitchcock : centenary essays on architectural historiography / edited by Frank Salmon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Salmon, Frank (Frank E.)

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

Society of Architectural Historians.

Series:

Studies in British art ; 16.

Studies in British art ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Summerson, John, 1904-1992--Criticism and interpretation.

Summerson, John.

Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, 1903-1987--Criticism and interpretation.

Hitchcock, Henry-Russell.

Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, 1903-1987.

Summerson, John, 1904-1992.

Architectural criticism--England--History--20th century.

Architectural criticism.

Architecture--Historiography.

Architecture.

History.

Criticism and interpretation.

England.

Physical Description:

xxx, 365 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Other Title:

Summerson & Hitchcock

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art [and] the Yale Center for British Art [by] Yale University Press, [2006]

Contents:

Henry-Russell Hitchcock and John Summerson: Personal Memories by an Acolyte / John Harris 1

Talk from the Table / Mosette Broderick 7

Sir John Summerson as Curator of Sir John Soane's Museum / Margaret Richardson 19

Curating History, Exhibiting Ideas: Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Architecture Exhibition Practice at the MoMA / Nina Stritzler-Levine 33

A Very Personal Renaissance / Christy Anderson 69

Artisan Mannerism: Seventeenth-Century Rhetorical Alternatives to Sir John Summerson's Formalist Approach / Caroline van Eck 85

Sir John Summerson and the Problem of Palladianism / Giles Worsley 105

Mind the Gap: Rewriting Sir John Summerson's American Architectural History / Marlene Elizabeth Heck 117

Hitchcock, Summerson and Glasgow / Gavin Stamp 133

An Open Space at the Constricted Centre of the City: Summerson and the Artificial Inflation of Victorian Values / Michela Rosso 155

A Thirty-Year Project: Henry-Russell Hitchcock's Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Paolo Scrivano 171

Romantic Modernity in the 1930s. Henry-Russell Hitchcock's Architecture: Twentieth and Nineteenth Centuries? / Barry Bergdoll 193

John Summerson and Romanticism / Alan Powers 209

Hitchcock and Harvard: The Historical Context of Formalist Aesthetics / Marie Frank 221

Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Dutch Architecture / Helen Searing 243

John Summerson and the View from the Outside / Neil Jackson 263

Genius and Bureaucracy: Hitchcock, Summerson and Post-War Modern Architecture / Philip Goad 281

High Hopes and Universal Disappointment: Reyner Banham and Henry-Russell Hitchcock / Nigel Whiteley 313

Celebrating the Centenaries of Summerson and Hitchcock: Finding a Historiography for the Architect-Historian / Helene Lipstadt 331.

Notes:

"The essays presented in this volume for the most part have their origin in papers delivered at a conference held in 2004 at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London, co-organised by the Centre with the Society of Architectural Historians"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0300116136

OCLC:

70137317