Hero Building - An Architecture of Scottish National Identity

Zusatztext 'This thought-provoking study will be invaluable for those looking to understand the idea of monumentality! both within and beyond a Scottish context! and will invite further examinations of the relationship between commemoration! identity and the urban'Dr. Kristen Carter McKee! University of Edinburgh! UK. ??'This is a pioneering study! replete with new thinking and fizzing with provocation.'Ray McKenzie! The Architects' Journal! UK. Informationen zum Autor Johnny Rodger is Professor of Urban Literature at the Glasgow School of Art. His published work includes fiction such as The Auricle (1995) and Redundant (1998) and critical volumes like Contemporary Glasgow (Rutland Press, 1999), Gillespie Kidd & Coia 1956-87 (RIAS, 2007), Tartan Pimps: Gordon Brown, Margaret Thatcher and the New Scotland (2010), and The Red Cockatoo: James Kelman and the Art of Commitment (2011). Zusammenfassung This book examines architectural culture by studying a prominent selection of buildings, such as the Burns monuments in Alloway, Edinburgh and Kilmarnock. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Chapter 1 The Hero Building; Chapter 2 Prototype; Chapter 3 Romantic Poet – Enlightenment Poet; Chapter 4 The Athens of the North/Valhalla of the West; Chapter 5 Wizard of the North; Chapter 6 Baronial Revival and the National Wallace Monument; Chapter 7 National Poet – Poet of Humanity; Chapter 8 Aberration, Autism and Vanity; Chapter 9 The Fallen; Chapter 10 A Postmodern Proof; Chapter 11 Afterlife;

Product details

• Authors: Johnny Rodger, Professor Johnny Rodger, Rodger Johnny
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.2015
• EAN: 9781472452719
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-5271-9
• No. of pages: 238
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Architecture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, History of Architecture, Human Geography, Library & Information Sciences, Theory of architecture, Library and information sciences / Museology