The Architect's Secret: Victorian Critics and the Image of Gravity

By J. Mordaunt Crook

What is the secret of beauty in architecture? Critics have puzzled over that conundrum for centuries, not least the architectural writers of the Victorian period. This book focuses on four Victorian critics - George Aitchison, Benjamin Webb, Beresford Hope and Coventry Patmore - and charts their responses to one of the eternal problems of art: the enigma of architectural form.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719560578
• ISBN13: 9780719560576
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: John Murray Pubs Ltd
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 5.8"