Description
Showing the range of Carl Laubin's work, this book follows the development of the architectural capriccio from the earlier incorporation of whimsical ideas in Laubin's paintings to the more elaborate architectural compositions based on the buildings of Wren, Hawksmoor, Cockerell and Ledoux.
About the Author
David Watkin is an internationally known writer and historian whose many books include John Simpson: The Queen's Gallery Buckingham Palace, and Other Works, 2002 (with Richard John); The Architect King: George III and the Culture of the Enlightenment (2004); A History of Western Architecture (4th ed., 2005); and Radical Classicism: The Architecture of Quinlan Terry (2006). He is Professor of the History of Architecture at the University of Cambridge where he is Head of the Department of History of Art.
Book Information
ISBN 9780856676338
Author David Watkin
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd
Publisher Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd