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224 Seiten Orig.-Pp.; Orig.-Schutzumschlag.

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Sehr gutes Exemplar. - Mit kleiner Beilage. / Very good copy. With a small extra. / Contents: Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: On the Misrepresentation of Architecture -- I To Rival Antiquity: Gandy's Youthful Dreams -- II Natural Abodes of Men: Sepulchers and Cottages -- III Wounded Sensibility, or Fragments of a Career -- IV Architectural History Painting: Gandy at the Royal Academy -- V Soane and Gandy at the Fall of Architecture -- VI Gandy's Later Period: Toward a Mythography of Architecture -- Conclusion: On the Madness of Architecture -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Sources of Illustrations -- Index. ISBN 9780500342213