Scotch baronial : architecture and national identity in Scotland / Miles Glendinning and Aonghus MacKechnie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glendinning, Miles, 1956- author.

MacKechnie, Aonghus, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism and architecture--Scotland.

Nationalism and architecture.

Architecture and society--Scotland.

Architecture and society.

Architecture--Political aspects--Scotland.

Architecture.

Architecture--Political aspects.

Scotland.

Physical Description:

x, 297 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Architecture and national identity in Scotland

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019.

Summary:

Provides a politically-framed examination of Scotland's kaleidoscopic "castle architecture," tracing how it was used to serve successive political agendas both prior to and during the three "unionist centuries" from the early 17th century to the 20th century. The book encompasses many of the country's most important historic buildings - from the palaces left behind by the "lost" monarchy, to revivalist castles and the proud town halls of the Victorian age - examining their architectural styles and tracing their wildly fluctuating political and national connotations. it ends by bringing the story into the 21st century, exploring how contemporary "neo-modernist" architecture in today's Scotland, as exemplified in the Holyrood parliament, relates to concepts of national identity in architecture over the previous centuries.

Contents:

List of figures

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations. Introduction. Part 1 The First Castle Age : Pre-1603: Castellated architecture and "martial independence"

1603-1660: court architecture under the Regna Union

1660-1689: sunset of the Stuarts - from castellation to classicism

1689-1750: the architecture of dynastic struggle. Part 2 The Second Castle Age : 1750-1790: enlightenment and romanticism

1790-1820: national architecture in the age of revolution

1820-1840: Scott, Abbotsford and "Scotch" romanticism

1840-1870: Billings and Bryce - mid-century baronial

1870-1914: Scotch traditionalism

1914 onwards: Scottish architectural identity in the age of modernism. Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474283472

1474283470

OCLC:

1020277940