Australian Gothic: The Gothic Revival in Australian Architecture from the 1940s to the 1950s by Brian Andrews

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Light foxing to top foredge. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Fading to spine. Interior and binding are also very good.

Australian Gothic is the first comprehensive book on the Australian face of the remarkable nineteenth-century Gothic Revival movement. With its roots in late 1830s England, this earnest return to building in the style of the Middle Ages touched most aspects of the Australian built environment, including houses, churches, banks, schools, and even funeral parlours and tombstones.

Brian Andrews explores the nature, scope and sources of the Gothic Revival, from the grand buildings, the great architects and their patrons, to the not-so-good, the humorous, the pretentious, the copy-cats and their works. He sheds light on the origins and progress of taste for over a century and traces the impact of Gothic ideas from Continental Europe, particularly in minority cultures here. (book flap)