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Informationen zum Autor Paul Dobraszczyk is a lecturer in Art History at the University of Manchester and his research covers a wide variety of subjects! including ornament and iron! visual representations of London's Victorian sewers! and the relationship between real and imagined urban ruins. He has published widely on these subjects! including Iron! Ornament and Architecture in Victorian Britain (Ashgate! 2014)! London's Sewers (Shire! 2014) and Into the Belly of the Beast: Exploring London's Victorian Sewers (Spire! 2009). His latest book! The Dead City: Urban Ruins and the Spectacle of Decay will be published by IB Tauris in 2017.Peter Sealy is a PhD candidate at Harvard University! where he is a Frank Knox Fellow. His dissertation charts the productive utility of photography's claim to factuality as it explored increasingly spatial qualities in late nineteenth-century architectural publications. An exposeì of this argument will appear in Blackwell's Companion to Nineteenth-Century Architecture. He co-authored (with Martin Bressani) an article on the photographs in Charles Garnier's Le Nouvel Opeìra! published in Art and the Early Photographic Album (CASVA! 2011). He holds architecture degrees from McGill University and the Harvard GSD; previously! he worked at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreìal on exhibitions including Actions (2008) and Journeys (2010). Zusammenfassung The introduction of iron - and later steel - construction and decoration transformed architecture in the nineteenth-century. This book re-directs scholarly scrutiny on its place in the aesthetics of architecture in the long nineteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Architecture Unbound (Paul Dobraszczyk and Peter Sealy)! Part I: Formations! 1. London's Crystal Palace and its Decorative Iron Construction (John W. Stamper)! 2. Paleostructure: Biological! Spiritual and Architectural Evolution at the Oxford Museum (Nathaniel Walker)! 3. Mimesis Recast: Artistic Production in the Aftermath of Neoclassicism (Axel Sowa)! 4. Richard Lucae and the Aesthetics of Space in the Age of Iron (Jasper Cepl)! Part II: Exchanges! 5. From Rational to Structurally Ornamental: Exported English Iron Architecture of the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Jonathan Clarke)! 6. Scottish Cast Iron in Argentina: Its Role in the British Informal Imperial System (Lucia Juarez)! 7. Utility and Beauty: Iron Architecture in Jamaica! 1800-1908 (Elizabeth Pigou-Dennis)! 8. Corrugated Iron: Forming New Perceptions in the Australian Landscape (Anne Warr)! Part III: Transformations! 9. Meta-Ornament: Iron and the Railway Station in Britain (Paul Dobraszczyk)! 10. Dreams in Iron: The Wish Image in Émile Zola's Novels (Peter Sealy)! 11. Casting Aspersions: Debating Iron Ornament in New York's East River Bridges (Charles Rosenblum) ...
