The Metropolis and its Image
Constructing Identities for London, c. 1750-1950
Art History Special Issues
1. Edition December 1999
184 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-21667-4
John Wiley & Sons
This book examines key moments in the emergence of London as a metropolis and considers different ways in which its image has been formulated and presented. The chapters address a range of topics from specific questions of architectural style to the relationship between the City of London and London as a metropolis, and explore different methods of constructing urban identities.
1. Aestheticizing the Accidental City: Antiquarianism, Topography
and the Representation of London in the Long Eighteenth-Century:
Lucy Peltz (The Museum of London).
2. Peripheral Visions: Alternative Aspects and Rural Presences
in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London: Elizabeth McKellar (Birkbeck
College, University of London).
3. 'Beastly Sights': the Treatment of Animals as a Moral Theme
in Representations of London c. 1820-1850: Diana Donald (Manchester
Metropolitan University).
4. London Bridge and its Symbolic Identity in the Regency
Metropolis: The Dialectic of Civic and National Pride: Dana Arnold
(University of Southampton).
5. Government and the Metropolitan Image: Ministers, Parliament
and the Concept of a Capital City, 1840-1915: Michael Port (Queen
Mary and Westfield College, University of London).
6. Rebuilding 'The Heart of the Empire': Bank Headquarters in
the City of London, 1919-1939: Iain Black (King's College,
London).
7. Benjamin's Paris, Freud's Rome: Whose London?: Adrian Rifkin
(Middlesex University).
and the Representation of London in the Long Eighteenth-Century:
Lucy Peltz (The Museum of London).
2. Peripheral Visions: Alternative Aspects and Rural Presences
in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London: Elizabeth McKellar (Birkbeck
College, University of London).
3. 'Beastly Sights': the Treatment of Animals as a Moral Theme
in Representations of London c. 1820-1850: Diana Donald (Manchester
Metropolitan University).
4. London Bridge and its Symbolic Identity in the Regency
Metropolis: The Dialectic of Civic and National Pride: Dana Arnold
(University of Southampton).
5. Government and the Metropolitan Image: Ministers, Parliament
and the Concept of a Capital City, 1840-1915: Michael Port (Queen
Mary and Westfield College, University of London).
6. Rebuilding 'The Heart of the Empire': Bank Headquarters in
the City of London, 1919-1939: Iain Black (King's College,
London).
7. Benjamin's Paris, Freud's Rome: Whose London?: Adrian Rifkin
(Middlesex University).
Dana Arnold is Professor of Architectural History at the University of Southampton, and Editor of Art History, the journal of the Association of Art Historians. Until 1999 she was Director of the Centre for Architectural Studies at the University of Leeds.
