Scotch Baronial

Architecture and National Identity in Scotland

AvMiles Glendinning,Aonghus MacKechnie

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

As the debate about Scottish independence rages on, this book takes a timely look at how Scotland’s politics have been expressed in its buildings, exploring how the architecture of Scotland – in particular the constantly-changing ideal of the ‘castle’ – has been of great consequence to the ongoing narrative of Scottish national identity. Scotch Baronial 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-01-10
Mått:156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt:612 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781474283472

Utforska kategorier

Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Arkitekturhistoria inom Kultur
Konsthistoria inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Miles Glendinning is Professor of Architectural Conservation at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh, UK.Aonghus MacKechnie is an architectural historian and Head of Heritage Management at Historic Scotland. Together, they have co-authored numerous books including A History of Scottish Architecture (1996, co-authored with Ranald MacInnes), and Scottish Architecture (2004).

Recensioner i media

An ambitious and wide-ranging but closely argued and well referenced account of the complex interplay, over more than eight centuries, between castellated architecture in its original and revival forms and changing concepts of national identity in Scotland ... The authors are to be congratulated on maintaining an appropriate balance and pace across such a broad chronological span and such an intricately interwoven set of themes.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Pre-1603 Scotland: Castellated Architecture and ‘Martial Independence’Part I: Absent Monarchs and Civil Strife Chapter 1: 1603-1660: Empty royal palaces and castellated court architectureChapter 2: 1660-1689: From restitution to rejection of the old orderChapter 3: 1689-1750: The architecture of dynastic strugglePart II: From ‘Romantic Scotland’ to ‘Imperial Scotland’ Chapter 4: 1750-1790: Enlightenment and RomanticismChapter 5: 1790-1820: Scotland and England in the Age of Revolutionary WarChapter 6: 1820-40: Scott, Abbotsford and ‘Scotch’ Romanticism Chapter 7: 1840-70: Billings and Bryce: mid-century Baronial Chapter 8: 1870-1900: TraditionalismChapter 9: External reflections: ‘national’ Scottish architecture and the empirePart III: The Twentieth CenturyChapter 10: 1914 onwards: Scottish architectural identity in the age of ModernismConclusion: The architecture of Unionist Nationalism – and its international significanceBibliographyIndex