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TitleContrasted Towns

Creator namePugin, Augustus Welby Northmore

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1841

Object typePrint

MaterialsUnknown

LocationNew York Public Library

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b205497f-56ef-a0b3-e040-e00a18065ebf

Accession numberb14488443

SubjectsPrints, British--19th centuryMagazine illustration--19th centuryCities and towns in artGothic revival (Architecture)--Great Britain

Statusfrom Contrasts; Or, a Parallel between the Noble Edifices of the Middle Ages and Corresponding Buildings Showing the Present Decay of Taste (1841 edition)

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V. Colonial Gothic

Tim Barringer

Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain

TO OPEN THIS FINAL CHAPTER, we return to the scenes with which the book began, the crowded floors beneath the vast, prefabricated iron and glass roof of Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace, at the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations...

Author

Tim Barringer

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.243-311

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23841&redirecttoanchor=103361

Chapter subject tags:Painting, Victorian--Great BritainCrystal Palace (Great Exhibition, 1851, London, England)Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832Gothic revival (Architecture)--Great BritainColonial and Indian Exhibition (1886 : London, England)Ruskin, John, 1819-1900Painting, British--19th century

Catalogue of the Exhibition

Paul Atterbury and Malcolm A. C. Hay and Roderick O'Donnell (Autrhor) and Clive Wainwright

A. W. N. Pugin: Master of Gothic Revival

The catalogue is arranged to follow the organization of the exhibition. The first part highlights Pugin’s early years and his growing passion for the integrity of medieval architecture and design...

Author

Paul Atterbury and Malcolm A. C. Hay and Roderick O'Donnell (Autrhor) and Clive Wainwright

PublisherBard Graduate Center

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.223-392

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21264&redirecttoanchor=103361

Chapter subject tags:Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812-1852Gothic revival (Architecture)Gothic revival (Art)Liturgical objectsDecoration and ornament--England

Epilogue—Dust to Dust: Jorge Otero-Pailos after John Ruskin

Courtney Skipton Long

Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin

“Pollution,” says contemporary artist and architectural preservationist Jorge Otero-Pailos, “is one of our most important products.”The author is...

Author

Courtney Skipton Long

PublisherYale Center for British Art

Related print edition pages: pp.87-95

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00234.005

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20934&redirecttoanchor=103361

Chapter subject tags:Otero-Pailos, JorgeInstallations (Art)Environmental degradation in artPollutionPlaster casts

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