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BOOK REVIEWS delightful glimpse of the Glasgow tenement as he it about ij years ago. It is interests in Greek Thomson and the City Improvement personal view reflecting his Trust. He has keen eye for detail and many of the photographs It remains his of the few records of form of building that has dictated the scale and character of all four Scottish cities and many burghs, perhaps because the tenement is much part us a a saw own are own. one so of an urban past that many Scots choose to ignore. Peter Robinson William Buchanan, editor, Mackintosh's Masterwork: The Glasgow School of Art, Richard Drew, Glasgow, 198g. Hardback. £25.00. A book like this must operate at two levels: first, descriptive; second, interpretative. And, of course, it does. But how well? Six authors contribute; threeâWilliam Buchanan, James Macaulay and Andrew MacMillan-interpret. But how comprehensively? How perceptively? Buchanan has two essays, one of which sketches in the personalities and events of the art scene centred on The School of Art inÃn-de-siecle Glasgow, the other describing in some detail the commissioning and construction of Mackintosh's new building. Both are informative, the latter, which constitutes the opening chapter, revealing much
Architectural Heritage – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Jan 1, 1990
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