Peter Greenaway: Architecture and Allegory

by Bridget Elliott, Anthony Purdy, Bridget Elliot

This monograph emphasizes the Greenaway's use of architecture as a structuring device as well as a metaphor and vehicle for the exploration of artistic practice in general, by looking at all of his best-known films. Illustrated with his own art work and film stills, this is a critical examination of many of the issues surrounding Greenaway's idiosyncratic work.

128 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1997

About the author

Bridget Elliott specializes in the study of Western modernism from the 19th to 21st centuries with a particular emphasis on the decorative and the ornamental as well as on aesthetics of excess (e.g. decadence, art nouveau and art deco); intersections of ‘high’ art and ‘popular’ culture, including art’s role in everyday life and its connections to interior design and fashion; relationships between art and literature and art and film (especially in the films of Peter Greenaway); museums, collecting, archives and other heterotopic practices in the art world; as well as the gendering of artistic production and theory. Her most recent research project focuses artists’ houses and maison musées in nineteenth century England and France.

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