1st Edition
Architects, Angels, Activists and the City of Bath, 1765–1965 Engaging with Women's Spatial Interventions in Buildings and Landscape
By Cynthia Imogen Hammond
Copyright 2012
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
A unique contribution to the architectural and social history of Bath, Architects, Angels, Activists and the City of Bath, 1765-1965: Engaging with Women's Spatial Interventions in Buildings and Landscape approaches the past with the methods of the architectural historian and the site-specific interventions of the contemporary artist. Looking beyond and behind Bath's strategic marshalling of its... Read more
Contents: Introduction: getting to Bath; Part I Architects: The winged architect and the gendering of architecture; Architecture and gender in Bath, or how Selina Hastings' gothic chapel came to serve the history of Georgian Bath. Part II Angels: Falling women: the angels of Bath Abbey; Whispering walls: artistic interventions as a means to trouble the architectural imaginary; 'The ghost of Ladymead': the Bath Female Home and Penitentiary. Part III Activists: 'Every tree a staunch heart': the history of the Suffragettes' wood; The Suffragettes' orchard: towards a description of research-creation; Beyond angels, beyond architects: mapping the Suffragettes' wood; Conclusion: leaving Bath - looking to the built past, on behalf of the lived future; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Cynthia Imogen Hammond is Associate Professor of Architectural History at Concordia University, Canada.
'A readable and entertaining book, that deftly weaves together artistic concerns, heritage practices and historic material... An enlivening discussion of the relationship between historic understandings, artistic practice and contemporary uses.' Jane Hamlett, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
'... the real delight of the book is that it has been tightly written with immense thoroughness and fluency, making it absorbing, discursive, engaging, perceptive and sensitive.' Planning Perspectives
