Carl Laubin: Poetry Of Art And Architecture, The

Description:
Showing the wide range of Carl Laubin's work, this book presents him as one of the finest architectural painters of all time. It follows the development of the architectural capriccio from the earlier incorporation of whimsical ideas in Laubin's paintings to the more elaborate architectural compositions based on the buildings of Wren, Hawksmoor, Cockerell and Ledoux. This book is published in associaton with Plus One Galleries, the leading dealers in Photorealist art.

Author Biography:
David Watkin is an internationally known writer and historian whose many books include John Simpson: The Queen's Gallery Buckingham Palace, and Other Works, 2002 (with Richard John); The Architect King: George III and the Culture of the Enlightenment (2004); A History of Western Architecture (4th ed., 2005); and Radical Classicism: The Architecture of Quinlan Terry (2006). He is Professor of the History of Architecture at the University of Cambridge where he is Head of the Department of History of Art.