‘Domestic utility and useful lines: Jean-Charles Krafft’s and Thomas Hope’s outlines’
Through a study of design publications by the architect and draughtsman, Jean-Charles Krafft (1764-1833), and aristocrat and designer Thomas Hope (1769-1831), this paper examines how Neoclassicism’s material products – its architecture and objects of interior design – participated in an intellectual...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Department of Art History, University of Birmingham
2013-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Art Historiography |
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| Online Access: | http://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/cohen1.pdf |
| Summary: | Through a study of design publications by the architect and draughtsman, Jean-Charles Krafft (1764-1833), and aristocrat and designer Thomas Hope (1769-1831), this paper examines how Neoclassicism’s material products – its architecture and objects of interior design – participated in an intellectual history of utility c. 1800. This paper gives special attention to the outline drawing, arguing that its graphic idiom is an integral feature of Krafft and Hope’s work, linking the value they ascribe to useful buildings and objects to ideas about how the lines of their illustrations were to participate both in design processes and in the promotion of neoclassical aesthetics. |
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| ISSN: | 2042-4752 |