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- Processing HistoryNicholas Hawksmoor’s Replicas
- Abstract
- Throughout his oeuvre, Nicholas Hawksmoor employs various strategies for appropriating and processing architecture history. Taking St. George’s, Bloomsbury as a case study, this essay examines how Hawskmoor employs the miniature replica as an architectural motif. It contends that Hawksmoor’s quasi-replicas are not simply to be understood as means of achieving particular formal qualities: they establish a specific and paradoxical relation to history, as attempts of materializing a past that is at once approximated and absent.
- Citation
- Vandeputte, T. (2011). Processing History. Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Replicas. Baroque, OASE, (86), 24–28. Retrieved from https://www.oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/86/ProcessingHistory
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