
Global Gothic
Gothic Church Buildings in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Edited by Barbara Borngässer and Bruno Klein
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Gothic style and contemporary architecture worldwide
Although largely overlooked in studies of architectural history, church architecture in a Gothic idiom outlived its 19th century momentum to persist worldwide throughout the 20th century and into the new millennium.
Global Gothic presents a first systematic worldwide understanding of "Gothic" in contemporary architecture, both as a distinct variation and as a competitor to recognized modern styles. The book’s chapters critically discuss Gothic’s various manifestations over the past century, describing and illustrating approaches from Gothic Revival living traditions in the former British Empire and original Gothic appropriation in Latin America to competitions of European builders in former Asian and African colonies. The focus is also on the special appropriations in North America, China and Japan, as well as contemporary solutions that tend to be transnational in style.
With contributions from renowned architecture experts from around the world, Global Gothic provides an overview of this cultural phenomenon and presents a wealth of stunning material, much of it little known. Richly illustrated in full color, it offers an important contribution to colonial and postcolonial global art history and a seldom acknowledged perspective on art history in general.Contributors: Barbara Borngässer (Technische Universität Dresden), Martín
M. Checa-Artasu (Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico City), Thomas
Coomans (KU Leuven), Pedro Guedes (University of Queensland), Bruno Klein (Technische
Universität Dresden), Bettina Marten (Technische Universität Dresden), Olimpia
Niglio (Hosei University Tokyo), Peter Scriver (University of Adelaide), Amit
Srivastava (University of Adelaide)
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Format: Edited volume - hardback
Size: 280 × 225 × 23 mm
248 pages
full colour
ISBN: 9789462703049
Publication: February 17, 2022
Series: KADOC-Artes 20
Languages: English
Stock item number: 146827
Bruno Klein holds the Chair for Christian Art of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages at the Technische Universität Dresden and is a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences. He has authored numerous publications on the historical and social development of art discourses.