06. john summerson - classical language of architecture
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WORLD OF RT
The Classical Language
of
Architecture
John
Sun1merson. 139 illustrations
Sir John Summerson s
brief
account
of
l sical architecture
has every right to be called a classic itself, nd for this
edition it has been completely redesigned and the number
of illustrations more than doubled . Few b oks can have
had such an enthusiastic reaction from th Iearned and
at the same time added so much to the la man s pleasure
in his surroundings. For to appreciate the classical style,
its variety and its strength, its wit and its ccasional
eccentricity, demands instruction. The a hor, one
of the
foremost
of
English architectural historia s, takes
u
easily
from the great originals
of
Greece and R me to the
recapitulations and innovations
of
the Re aissance,
the explosive rhetoric of the aroque an the grave
statements ofNeo-classicism; thence tot e exuberant
eclecticism of the Victorians and Edward ans and, finally,
to the stripped N eo-classicism of some
f
the moderns
every age using the cla
icallanguage to r ake its
own
statement.
Thames and Hudson
Revised and enlarged edition
On
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ISBN 0 500 20177 3
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Sir John Summerson is
among thc;: g eatest of.English architecturJ historians.
Curator
of Si r ohn Soane's Muselll11 from 1945 until his
rerircm
ent
in 1
84,
he had been Slade l rofessor
of
Fine
Art at
both
Ox rd and Cambr idge and had lectured on rhe
history ofarchit cture at Birkbeck College, London. He died
1992
Of his many books, the best k nown are probably
Cc
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