The Fair-Line and the Good Frontage

Surface and Effect

Stephen Walker (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

136 Seiten

2019 | Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2018 ed.
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-13-4031-4 (ISBN)

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This book offers an extended consideration of the fairground showfront. It combines archival material, contemporary examples of fairs, and a sustained theoretical engagement with influential philosophies of surface, including recent work by Avrum Stroll and Andrew Benjamin, as well as the nineteenth century author Gottfried Semper. Semper’s work on the origin of architectural enclosure —formed from woven mats and carpets— anticipates the surface and material history of the showfront. Initial chapters introduce these philosophies, the evolution of showfronts, and the ways in which individual fairground rides and attractions are arranged to form an enclosing boundary for the whole fair. Later chapters focus on issues of spectacle and illusion, vast ‘interior’ spaces, atmosphere, crowds and surface effects. Informed by a wide range of work from other design and cultural studies, the book will be of interest to readers in these areas, as well as architecture and those curious about the fairground.

Stephen Walker is the Head of Architecture at the University of Manchester, UK. He has published widely on theories and histories at the periphery of architecture, art practice, temporary and informal architectural activities and other forms of cultural production. He is currently preparing a longer study of the architectures, cultures and identities of the travelling street fair.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Bostock and the Good Frontage.- Chapter 2: The Fair-Line.- Chapter 3: Surface Effect.- Chapter 4: From Canvas to Carving, Ornament and Supplement.- Chapter 5: Truth to Trompe, Theatre, Spectacle and Illusion.- Chapter 6: Spectatorship: the Panorama of the Whole.- Chapter 7: Surface and Effect: Architecture and the Patterning of Experience.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.03.2022
Zusatzinfo	30 Illustrations, black and white; XVIII, 136 p. 30 illus.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Technik ► Architektur
Schlagworte	Architectural Surface • architectural theory • Atmosphere • bounding surface • Crowd • Design Studies • effect • fairground • Good Frontage • post-‐human media studies • Semper • surface effect • The fair-line
ISBN-10	981-13-4031-5 / 9811340315
ISBN-13	978-981-13-4031-4 / 9789811340314
Zustand	Neuware