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C.R. Mackintosh : the poetics of workmanship / David Brett.

By: Brett, David.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Essays in art and culture.Publisher: London : Reaktion Books, 1992Description: 152 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0948462221 ; 094846223X.Subject(s): Mackintosh, Charles Rennie, 1868-1928 -- Criticism and interpretation | Decoration and ornament -- Scotland -- Art nouveau | Arts and crafts movement -- ScotlandDDC classification: 709.2
Contents:
Introduction -- The city and the context -- Decoration into structure: The role of drawing -- The poetics of workmanship -- Modernity and the interior.
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General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 709.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00095254
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Between 1896 and 1906, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) produced a series of buildings and interiors in and around Glasgow of such startling invention that he immediately established himself as one of the truly great figures in early twentieth-century architecture and design. David Brett argues that Mackintosh's originality was grounded in a highly subjective "poetics of workmanship", in which the structure, features, interiors and furnishings of each individual building became subject to a unifying system of forms, metaphors and unconscious associations. The system Mackintosh evolved allowing for the formulation of an almost infinite series of ensembles.

After focusing on the various decorative details and interior spaces of Mackintosh's buildings the author reaches to the heart of Mackintosh's poetic system - the suffused eroticism of the sleek, "feminine" and intensely private "white interiors". A notable feature of this persuasive reappraisal of Mackintosh's work is the wealth of photographs by the author showing rarely featured details of buildings, interiors and furnishings.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-145).

Introduction -- The city and the context -- Decoration into structure: The role of drawing -- The poetics of workmanship -- Modernity and the interior.

Presented by Roger Hannam.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 The City and the Context
  • 2 Decoration into Structure: The Role of Drawing
  • 3 The Poetics of Workmanship
  • 4 Modernity and the Interior
  • References
  • Chronology
  • List of Illustrations

Author notes provided by Syndetics

David Brett is Reader in the History of Design at the University of Ulster, Belfast. He is also a playwright, novelist and mountaineer.