Insular Rococo: Architecture, Politics, and Society in Ireland and England 1710-1770

by Brian Earnshaw and Timothy Mowl

Between 1710 and 1770, the inventive, ornate Rococo style should, in the natural course of events, have been Britain's prevailing decorative style. This is the first book to describe and explain its oddly frustrated course in England and, in vivid contrast, its brilliant flourishing in Ireland. The authors' controversial claim is that Ireland not only devised its own form of "insular" Rococo, but exported this mode successfully in a gesture of cultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861890443
• ISBN13: 9781861890443
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.0" x 10.1"