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Commerce of Taste Church Architecture in Canada, 1867-1914

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ISBN-10: 0773539824

ISBN-13: 9780773539822

Edition: 2012

Authors: Barry Magrill

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Drawing upon formal architectural analysis and cultural theory, Barry Magrill shows how pattern books offer a unique way of studying the relationships between taste, ideology, privilege, social change, and economics. Taste was a concept used to legitimize British - and to an extent Anglican - privilege, while other denominations resisted their aesthetic edicts. Pattern books eventually lost control of the exclusivity associated with taste as advances in printing technology and transatlantic shipping brought more books into the marketplace and readerships expanded beyond the professional classes. By the early twentieth century taste had become diluted, the architect had lost his heroic…    
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Book details

List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication date: 4/24/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English