- Taschenbuch: 624 Seiten
- Verlag: Penguin (29. Dezember 2011)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0140280995
- ISBN-13: 978-0140280999
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,6 x 12,8 x 3 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 336.414 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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a very remarkable book about a very remarkable man (A.N. Wilson )
A magnificent biography, as sumptuous and intricate as anything Pugin built (John Carey )
as the readable biography of a most protean and brilliant man, it is worthy of the best of his buildings (Colm Toibin )
An excellent and detailed biography (Peter Ackroyd )
A magnificent biography, as sumptuous and intricate as anything Pugin built (John Carey )
as the readable biography of a most protean and brilliant man, it is worthy of the best of his buildings (Colm Toibin )
An excellent and detailed biography (Peter Ackroyd )
Kurzbeschreibung
Pugin was one of Britain’s greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of the soi-disant Comte de Pugin, at 15 Pugin was working for King George IV at Windsor Castle. By the time he was 21 he had been shipwrecked, bankrupted and widowed. Nineteen years later he died, insane and disillusioned, having changed the face and the mind of British architecture. God’s Architect is the first full modern biography of this extraordinary figure. It draws on thousands of unpublished letters and drawings to recreate his life and work as architect, propagandist and romantic artist as well as the turbulent story of his three marriages, the bitterness of his last years and his sudden death at 40. It is the debut of a remarkable historian and biographer.
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A Pointless Biography of Pugin
26. April 2010
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God's Architect: Rosemary Hill's Pointless Biography of Augustus Pugin, V.P.
God's Architect (Yale UP, 2009) is a monumental work of scholarship, but because it lacks a unifying thesis or central point, Rosemary Hill's sprawling 600-page, fifteen-years-in-the-making biography of the nineteenth century English architect Augustus Pugin (1812-1852) is, in the final analysis, unfortunately, a failure. The closest thing to a central thesis that she offers, the closest thing to an explanation of Pugin's extraordinary life and career, is her speculation that he contracted syphilis, possibly before he was out of his teens, and that it was that disease that underlay many of his physical and mental problems and that led finally to his insanity and death, at the age of forty.
Hill had the sense not to marry her biography to syphilis; at best, or at worst, God's Architecture only flirts with it. She does not mention syphilis until page 151, and not again until page 257, but she returns to the subject near the end, on page 492 and again on page 598, in the Epilogue, when she has no other explanation for Pugin's extraordinary life and work to fall back on.
If there is no point to Hill's biography, there was, quite literally, to Pugin's life and career. He was a practitioner and champion of what he preferred to call Pointed architecture. One of his most important books was The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture (1841). He said he converted to Catholicism as a result of his study of Pointed architecture. Hill's failure to take into account and adequately explain Pugin's lifelong commitment to and obsession with Pointed architecture is the Achilles' heel of God's Architect.
In making light of the titles and honors he never was awarded, in spite of his important contributions in architecture and the applied arts, Pugin once quipped that the only letters he was ever likely to have after his name were V.P., which he made clear stood for "very pointed." But Hill did not explain his "very pointed" quip, either in her biography or when she was asked directly about it in an interview with The Guardian.
Hill is good at showing Pugin's contributions to architecture and the applied arts, and conversely in showing how egotistical and obtuse he could be, but not why he was so crazy about Pointed architecture. Pugin believed Pointed architecture had been the means to his salvation by pointing , literally and figuratively, toward heaven and Catholicism. Syphilis may or may not have killed Pugin, but Pointed architecture is what he lived for.
God's Architect (Yale UP, 2009) is a monumental work of scholarship, but because it lacks a unifying thesis or central point, Rosemary Hill's sprawling 600-page, fifteen-years-in-the-making biography of the nineteenth century English architect Augustus Pugin (1812-1852) is, in the final analysis, unfortunately, a failure. The closest thing to a central thesis that she offers, the closest thing to an explanation of Pugin's extraordinary life and career, is her speculation that he contracted syphilis, possibly before he was out of his teens, and that it was that disease that underlay many of his physical and mental problems and that led finally to his insanity and death, at the age of forty.
Hill had the sense not to marry her biography to syphilis; at best, or at worst, God's Architecture only flirts with it. She does not mention syphilis until page 151, and not again until page 257, but she returns to the subject near the end, on page 492 and again on page 598, in the Epilogue, when she has no other explanation for Pugin's extraordinary life and work to fall back on.
If there is no point to Hill's biography, there was, quite literally, to Pugin's life and career. He was a practitioner and champion of what he preferred to call Pointed architecture. One of his most important books was The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture (1841). He said he converted to Catholicism as a result of his study of Pointed architecture. Hill's failure to take into account and adequately explain Pugin's lifelong commitment to and obsession with Pointed architecture is the Achilles' heel of God's Architect.
In making light of the titles and honors he never was awarded, in spite of his important contributions in architecture and the applied arts, Pugin once quipped that the only letters he was ever likely to have after his name were V.P., which he made clear stood for "very pointed." But Hill did not explain his "very pointed" quip, either in her biography or when she was asked directly about it in an interview with The Guardian.
Hill is good at showing Pugin's contributions to architecture and the applied arts, and conversely in showing how egotistical and obtuse he could be, but not why he was so crazy about Pointed architecture. Pugin believed Pointed architecture had been the means to his salvation by pointing , literally and figuratively, toward heaven and Catholicism. Syphilis may or may not have killed Pugin, but Pointed architecture is what he lived for.
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