AWN Pugin: Master of Gothic Revival, edited by Paul Atterbury, 392 pages
This catalogue was produced for an exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts. As such, it focuses on Pugin as designer rather than architect, and thus reveals the power of Pugin's unity of design, the fittingness of architecture, decoration, and furniture. An unusually lengthy and substantive collection of essays, in turn, place Pugin himself into his proper context, establishing him as a visionary rather than a mere antiquarian, and tracing his influence on the Continent and across the Atlantic.
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