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Acanthus ( Dr.Frank Hoar, FRIBA 1907 -1978) With Acanthus we are impressed by the discrepancy between the narrative and the means used to achieve it - the Piranesian grandeur to achieve a domestic frisson. His graphic achievement, as you'd expect from a trained architect, was the creation of a dizzying sense of scale and sustained encrustation of detail. His PhD was, significantly on the Bavarian baroque.His best cartooning work was done for Punch. There is a well written and comprehensive account of his architectural acheivements and practice in Wikipedia. Both of
these images are from that magazine, and measure 16 x 23 cms. "Acanthus
was an architect and, as a specialist, able to bring to PUNCH pages a
high degree of specificity, one of the qualities most lacking in the modern
period." R.G.G.Price, A History of Punch Collins London
1957.
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