Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Kaplan, Wendy (editor)

Glasgow, Scotland / New York: Glasgow Museums / Abbeville Press, 1996. Hardcover. Black cloth with debossed title on cover; Black and white illustrated dust jacket with lavender lettering on spine; 383 pp.; 249 color and bw figures. VG/VG. Item #166865
ISBN: 9781558597914

Accompanied a traveling exhibition that appeared at McLellan Galleries in Scotland, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Los Angeles Museum of Art in 1996 and 1997; A look at Mackintosh's architecture, as well as his art and design; Extensive annotations. Contents as follows: Director's foreword -- Sponsor's statement -- Introduction / Wendy Kaplan -- Chronology / Alan Crawford -- Cast of characters -- I. Mackintosh in context. Mackintosh and the city / Juliet Kinchin ; Glasgow School of Art and the Glasgow style / Daniel Robbins ; Collaboration among the Four / Janice Helland -- II. Architecture. The Glasgow years / David Walker ; Glasgow School of Art / Mark Girouard ; The Hill House / John McKean ; The London years / Gavin Stamp -- III. Art and design. "Living fancy" : Mackintosh furniture and interiors / Pat Kirkham ; The tea rooms : art and domesticity / Alan Crawford ; The making of a painter / Pamela Robertson -- IV. Conclusion. The Mackintosh phenomenon / Alan Crawford -- Buildings and collections -- Checklist of the exhibition. Architect, interior designer, furniture designer, painter, and graphic artist, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) was a modern Renaissance man. This far-ranging book by the leading scholars in the field offers new information and ideas about many aspects of Mackintosh's work: his famous tea rooms, his distinctive furniture, and his evocative paintings. In addition, individual chapters are devoted to his two most remarkable surviving buildings, Glasgow School of Art and The Hill Houseboth illustrated with specially commissioned color photographs. The authors also provide a fresh and thoughtful look at Mackintosh's context in turn-of-the-century Glasgow and London while revising many of the myths that have long obscured his life and career. His extensive collaboration with his wife, Margaret Macdonald, and his working relationships with his mentors and patrons receive enlightening scrutiny as well. This authoritative volume - which accompanies a major retrospective with an international tour, organized by the Glasgow Museums - also contains an extensive chronology, a cast of characters, a selected bibliography, and an appendix of the Mackintosh buildings and interiors that are still in existence.