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The Terracotta Designs of
Alfred Waterhouse
Colin Cunningham
The work of Alfred Waterhouse became highly acclaimed with his persistent and thorough design of the Natural History Museum, London. The detail to which he took each carving, on every part of the building inside and out, is legendary. The Museum holds the collection of drawings that led to these carvings and they are of incredible historical as well as graphic and architectural interest. Waterhouse's designs influenced a generation of work at the beginning of the twentieth century and as we move forward into the next century it is important to look back at previous influences in order to assess our position.
The book explains the development of the work of Waterhouse and the events that led to the designs for the Natural History Museum, as well as illustrating for the first time the incredible drawings from which the carvings were executed. This book will appeal to any architects who have ever been remotely interested in the work of Waterhouse.
Published by John Wiley in collaboration with the Natural History Museum.
Key features
- The first volume to cover comprehensively these unique drawings by Waterhouse
- Beautiful illustrations, previously unpublished
- Valuable resource tool to architectural historians and students as well as to those merely interested in Waterhouse
Contents
List of Plates; List of Figures; Foreword; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. The Drawings; 3. The Draughtsman's Contribution; 4. The Scientist's Contribution; 5. The Sculptor's Contribution; 6. The Ornamental Creation; Bibliography.
About the author
Colin Cunningham has written extensively for the Open University, most recently on two courses that are co-published with Yale: Art and its Histories (1999); Arts, Society and Religion in Florence, Spain and Padua (1996).
He has also written and presented upwards of 35 television programmes for the University, and is widely published by Oxford University Press, Manchester University Press and Routledge, including the Waterhouse biography that won the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion in 1994.
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Specifications
ISBN: 1 471 48949 2
Price: £34.95
Format: Paperback
Size: 279 x 217 mm
Extent: 192 pp
Published: December 2000
Subject classification: Architecture; art and design
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