E.W. Godwin: Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer, edited by Susan Weber Soros
Susan Weber Soros, editor
One of the great figures in nineteenth-century English architecture and design, E. W. Godwin (1833–1886) began his career as an architect, later turned to furniture design and decoration, and finally focused on Victorian theater, assuming the roles of costume designer, designer-manager, and critic. In the first section of this book, ten scholars examine Godwin’s multifaceted life and career, discussing his diverse contributions as a design reformer. The second section of the book presents a fully annotated selection of over 150 items that represent the formation and flowering of Godwin’s oeuvre.
Beginning with an overview of Godwin’s life, the book then examines the antiquarian and Japanese sources of his styles. Separate chapters discuss his architectural achievements, from early church restorations to the design of avant-garde house/studios; his contributions to design reform through writings as an architectural journalist; his role as an interior designer and the importance of furniture in his commissions; and the changing nature of the critical attention he received in life and after his death. In subsequent chapters, the contributors focus on particular products Godwin designed, his own work in the Victorian theater, and the achievements of his son, theatrical designer Edward Gordon Craig.
Table of Contents
Preface
Clive Wainwright
Introduction
Susan Weber Soros
1. Edward William Godwin (1833-1886): Aesthetic Polymath
Lionel Lambourne
2. E.W. Godwin as an Antiquary
Catherine Arbuthnott
3. E.W. Godwin and Japonisme in England
Nancy B. Wilkinson
4. E.W. Godwin and Modernism
Juliet Kinchin
5. An Aesthetic Education: The Architecture Criticism of E.W. Godwin
Richard W. Hayes
6. The Architectural Career of E.W. Godwin
Aileen Reid
7. E.W. Godwin and Interior Design
Susan Weber Soros
8. The Furniture of E.W. Godwin
Susan Weber Soros
9. E.W. Godwin and Textile Design
Linda Parry
10. E.W. Godwin and Wallpaper Design
Joanna Banham
11. E.W. Godwin and Ceramics
Catherine Arbuthnott
12. E.W. Godwin and Design for the Theater
Fanny Baldwin
13. The Genetic Legacy
Lionel Lambourne
Chronology
Checklist of the Exhibition
Bibliography
Index
Contributors
Catherine Arbuthnott
Researcher and master's candidate, Birbeck College, London
Fanny Baldwin
Theater historian, London
Joanna Banham
Former archivist, Arthur Sanderson and Sons, London
Richard W. Hayes
Architect, New York
Juliet Kinchin
Lecturer at the Glasgow School of Art and Glasgow University
Lionel Lambourne
Former head of the Department of Prints and Drawings, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Linda Parry
Curator of textiles, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Aileen Reid
Architectural historian
Susan Weber Soros
Founder and director of The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts
Clive Wainwright
Senior Research Fellow, Nineteenth Century Studies, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Nancy Burch Wilkinson
Associate professor of art at Oklahoma State University
Other Details
ISBN
9780300080087
Dimensions
12.4 x 9.3 x 1.4 in.
Page count
432 pages, illustrated
Publication date
1999
Binding
softcover
