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Gothic Revivalism

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Gothic Revivalism
a universal style current since its inception in Britain in the late 18th century, passing from a period of superficial decoration to one in which true Gothic massing yielded such masterpieces as the British Houses of Parliament and Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning.
See also: Architecture


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All his work was founded on that conviction - from his early association with gothic revivalism, and the ideal of unalienated labour that lay behind the arts and crafts movement he founded, to his idiosyncratic, utopian brand of socialism.
Here, Parry establishes the Laudian style as a hybrid one, with a "superficial responsiveness to baroque forms" (99) overlying a gothic revivalism or "survivalism" (44).
 
 
 
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