{"id":9336,"date":"2022-03-09T14:35:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T14:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=9336"},"modified":"2022-03-09T14:35:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T14:35:26","slug":"meades-on-burslem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2022\/03\/09\/meades-on-burslem\/","title":{"rendered":"Meades on Burslem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Meades, mentioning Burslem in the latest edition of <em>The Oldie<\/em> magazine&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[&#8230;] George \u2018Metz\u2019 Robinson, whose masterpiece, Burslem Town Hall, is not Gothic. It is not even \u2018Modern Gothic\u2019. It is ur-Victorian and belongs to no known school [of architectural design]. [&#8216;Metz&#8217; became a newspaper art critic, but as a journalist in his younger years] he was sent to cover the Franco-Prussian War and was banged up in Metz during the siege \u2013 hence his nickname.&#8221; [He and his fellow] artists were outsiders \u2013 not part of the web of local [municipal architectural] practitioners who, decade after decade, have questionably enjoyed the bulk of municipal and commercial patronage [and who as a class came to be so corrupt both financially and aesthetically in the 1960s and 70s. Robinson can be compared to the men of later 19th-century Birmingham, who in architecture] &#8220;developed an idiom that has no peer in England [and who succeeded in making] Birmingham unique in its creation of an arts-and-crafts urbanism&#8221; [&#8230;] &#8220;It can hardly be labelled a movement, but there is an undeniable accord between buildings of different types and uses.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His article is actually on Birmingham but, as usual with such things, south Birmingham relentlessly hogs all the limelight. The article never strays north of the city-centre&#8217;s Broad Street. There&#8217;s a whole other north Birmingham up there, about which a young Meades admirer might make a <em>Meades<\/em>-like video series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Meades, mentioning Burslem in the latest edition of The Oldie magazine&#8230; &#8220;[&#8230;] George \u2018Metz\u2019 Robinson, whose masterpiece, Burslem Town Hall, is not Gothic. It is not even \u2018Modern Gothic\u2019. It is ur-Victorian and belongs to no known school [of architectural design]. [&#8216;Metz&#8217; became a newspaper art critic, but as a journalist in his younger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}