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| Author(s): | D. Arnold and S. bending (Eds) |
| Publisher: | Blackwell Publishing |
| ISBN: | 1405105356 |
| Format: | softback |
| 149pp | |
| Price: | £16.99 |
| Review Date: | 22 April 2003 |
| Review: | This volume considers the interrelationship between antiquarianism and aesthetic philosophy and architectural design before the era of true mass production, but when images by lithography, photography and film were first becoming available to the public. The chapters look at the British attitudes to antiquity that are commonly presented in an isolated nationalistic context. However, here the discovery of the ancient world through the medium of print is explored as a Europe-wide phenomenon, where the visual language of the printed images transcends national boundaries. In this way printed images of the monuments of antiquity and the Middle Ages in Britain and elsewhere – with special emphasis on architecture – are considered as histories in their own right, giving an alternative interpretation of the past from that offered by textual analyses. |