Art and the Industrial Revolution

This copy from the library of British architect James Stirling

Author

Francis D Klingender, edited and revised by Arthur Elton

Publisher

Evelyn, Adams & Mackay, London, 1968

Printing Details

Second edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. 26 × 21.5cm. xvii, 222pp + 117 b/w plates.

This copy belonged to British architect James Stirling, and has his library label to the front pastedown. James Stirling (1926–1992) was known for his unorthodox, sometimes controversial, designs of multiunit housing and public buildings. His earlier work being in the New Brutalist style. Some of his notable works include the Leicester University Engineering Building, the History Faculty Building at the University of Cambridge, the Clore Gallery and the Neue Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, Germany

This pioneer investigation remains one of the most original and arresting accounts of the impact of the new industry and technology upon the landscape of England and the English mind. Drawing on his unique command of the contemporary visual and literary record, Francis Klingender analyses and documents the interaction between the sociological, scientific and cultural changes that moulded the nineteenth century. His subjects range from the development of the railways to the poetry of Erasmus Darwin, from the construction of bridges and aqueducts to the aesthetic concepts of the Sublime and the Picturesque, from the Luddite riots and the English 'navvy' to those artists most profoundly affected by the climate of the Industrial Revolution, among them John Martin, Joseph Wright of Derby, J.C. Bourne, and J.M.W. Turner.