Record Nr.

UNINA9910820189103321

Autore

Richmond Peter <1959->

Titolo

Marketing modernisms : the architecture and influence of Charles Reilly / / Peter Richmond

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2001

ISBN

1-84631-351-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 250 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Liverpool Latin American Studies

Disciplina

711/.092

Soggetti

Architecture - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-241) and index.

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 overlooked by writers of Modernist histories, but this book restores him to deserved prominence