Commerce of Taste Church Architecture in Canada, 1867-1914

Name: Commerce of Taste Church Architecture in Canada, 1867-1914
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ISBN: 9780773539839

ISBN-10: 0773539832

ISBN-13: 9780773539839

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…

Book details

List price: $37.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication date: 4/24/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.814



Acknowledgments


List of Illustrations


Introduction



The Rise of Commercial Society in Pre-Confederation Canada



Economy and Religion from the Maritimes to Upper Canada



Selling Ecclesiology as Identity in the Dominion of Canada



Property Ownership and Church-Building: The Financial Structure of Churches in Ontario



The Spread of Empire in Western Canada: Railway, Religion, and Church-Building



An Unfinished Business of Western Expansion



The Influence of US Artistic, Cultural, and Economic Capital


Conclusion


Appendix: Biographies of Pattern Book Authors


Notes


Bibliography


Index