The Lost House Revisited - Ed Kluz by Merrell

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The Lost House Revisited - Ed Kluz Ed Kluz has a fascination with the sites of lost buildings. The subject matter of his collage work is often the once-celevrated grand houses that were abandoned to ruin or burnt. This hardback book presents and extensive collection of his work and features in-depth chapters on such lost buildings as Hamstead Marshall and Fonthill Abbey. The introduction by Tim Knox gives an insight to Kluz's working practice and how he (Kluz) was brought up listening to his father tell the story of his own childhood in Kingsley House which was subdivided by a developer and is a lost house of sorts too. Know defines Kluz's preferred subject as Gothic Revival or Neoclassical structures and how his conjuring yo of vanished great houses through his collage and illustration caters for a strange longing: how the burnt down or otherwise lost country house exert a greater fascination on us than their surviving counterparts. As well as the introduction by Know and the work of

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