Orientalism by Type - Moorish Revival Architecture, Turquerie, Japonism, Chinoiserie, Indomania, Sinophile, Japanophile, Persophilia (Paperback)

Chapters: Moorish Revival Architecture, Turquerie, Japonism, Chinoiserie, Indomania, Sinophile, Japanophile, Persophilia. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 48. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural styles that were adopted by architects of Europe and the Americas in the wake of the Romanticist fascination with all things oriental. It reached the height of its popularity after the mid-nineteenth century, part of a widening vocabulary of articulated decorative ornament drawn from historical sources beyond familiar classical and Gothic modes. Little distinction was made in European and American practice between motifs drawn from Ottoman Turkey or from Andalusia. Gran teatro falla, Cadiz, SpainIn Spain, the country conceived as the place of origin of Moorish ornamentation, the interest in this sort of architecture fluctuated from province to province. The mainstream was called Neo-Mud jar. In Catalonia, Antoni Gaud 's profound interest in Mud jar heritage governed the design of his early works, such as Casa Vicens or Astorga Palace. In Andalusia, the Neo-Mud jar style gained belated popularity in connection with the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929 and was epitomized by Plaza de Espa a (Seville) and Gran Teatro Falla in C diz. In Madrid, the Neo-Mud jar was a characteristic style of housing and public buildings at the turn of the century, while the 1920s return of interest to the style resulted in such buildings as Las Ventas bull ring and Diario ABC office. Although Carlo Bugatti employed Moorish arcading among the exotic features of his furniture, shown at the 1902 exhibition at Turin, by that time the Moorish Revival was very much on the wane everywhere but Imperial Russia, where the shell-encrusted Morozov House ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=500782