Name: The English Folly: The Edifice Complex (Historic England) (en Inglés)
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Author: Gwyn Headley; Wim Meulenkamp
ISBN: 9781789622126

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The English Folly: The Edifice Complex (Historic England) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Historic England

Autor

Gwyn Headley; Wim Meulenkamp

Año

2020

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

249

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781789622126

Categorías

Detalles, componentes y motivos arquitectónicos
Paisajismo: arquitectura y diseño
Historia de la arquitectura

The English Folly: The Edifice Complex (Historic England) (en Inglés)

Gwyn Headley; Wim Meulenkamp (Autor) · Historic England · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "The English Folly: The Edifice Complex (Historic England) (en Inglés)"

If this were a novel, the tales of astounding wealth, sexual perversion, murder, munificence, rape, insanity, brutality, slavery, religious mania, selfishness, snobbery, charity, suicide, generosity, theft, madness, wickedness, failure and eccentricity which unfold in these pages would be too concentrated to allow for the willing suspension of disbelief. All these sins and virtues, and more, are displayed by the characters in this book, some exhibiting several of them simultaneously. Folly builders were not as we are. They never built what we now call follies. They built for beauty, utility, improvement; it is only we, struggling after them with our imperfect understanding, who dismiss their prodigious constructions as follies. Follies can be found around the world, but England is their spiritual home. Having written the definitive books on follies in Great Britain, Benelux and the USA, Headley & Meulenkamp have turned their attention to the folly builders themselves, people so blinded by fashion or driven by some nameless ideology that they expended great fortunes on making their point in brick, stone and flint. Most follies are simply misunderstood buildings, and this book studies the motives, characters, decisions and delusions of their builders. If there was madness in their building, fortunately there was no method in it.