Marketing Modernisms [[electronic resource] ] : The Architecture and Influence of Charles Reilly

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453552203321
• Autore: Richmond Peter
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2001
• ISBN: 1-84631-351-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Collana: Liverpool Latin American Studies
• Disciplina: 711/.092; 720.92
• Soggetti: Reilly, C. H; Architecture - History - 20th century - Great Britain; Art, Architecture & Applied Arts; Architecture; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Title Page; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1: Liverpool Circa 1900; 2: Early Influences and Experience; 3: Designs on Monumentalism; 4: Cultural Enterprises; 5: The Chair of Civic Design; 6: Early Architectural Work:1904-1914; 7: Journalism and Other Writing; 8: Moves Towards Modernism; 9: Later Architectural Work:1918-1939; 10: The Reilly Plan; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Architect, teacher, journalist, town planner and cultural entrepreneur, Sir Charles Reilly (1874-1948) was a leading figure of the early twentieth-century British architectural scene. Marketing Modernisms is the first book to take an in-depth look at Reilly's career, tracing his evolving architectural ethos via a series of case studies of his built work. Among other issues, the author considers Reilly's involvement in cultural enterprises such as the establishment of the Liverpool Repertory Theatre, his journalism, transatlantic links and town-planning theories. Reilly has been largely overloo