TY - JOUR AU1 - Barringer, Tim AB - Reviews player in the promotion of American modern design, book is introductory and it lacks footnotes, yet large and shows the various developments within that amounts of original and unpublished scholarship are idiom. For these reasons this essay is particularly deftly incorporated into the text. Superbly illustrated, useful. it covers a vast territory, geographical and conceptual, from Fountains Abbey to Siouxsie Sioux (a gothic Nicolas Maffei monument of our own time), crossing fields from Royal College of Art, London architecture, the applied arts and painting to social theory, historiography and fiction. There are new readings in each of these areas: anyone involved in Notes studying or teaching eighteenth- or nineteenth- 1 See my essay, 'John Cotton Dana and the Pohocs of Exhibiting century British culture should read this book. Industrial Art in the US, 1909-1929, Journal of Design History, At the heart of this account lies the conviction— vol. 13, no. 4; C. W. Laidlaw, "The Metropolitan Museum of amply borne out by the evidence presented—that the Art and Modern Design: 1917-1929', Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Spring 1988, Wolfson Foundation of Decora- adoption of gothic was as much a statement of tive and Propaganda Arts, Inc , TI - The Gothic Revival JF - Journal of Design History DO - 10.1093/jdh/13.4.351 DA - 2000-01-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-gothic-revival-6JwCsEMG0G SP - 351 EP - 352 VL - 13 IS - 4 DP - DeepDyve ER -