{"id":8120,"date":"2018-01-30T12:22:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T17:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/?p=8120"},"modified":"2018-01-30T12:23:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T17:23:09","slug":"kevin-murphy-interviewed-about-tudor-revival-houses-for-la-times-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/2018\/01\/kevin-murphy-interviewed-about-tudor-revival-houses-for-la-times-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Murphy Interviewed About Tudor Revival Houses for LA Times Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8139\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2593\/2018\/01\/tudorhomekevinmurphy.jpg\" alt=\"tudorhomekevinmurphy\" width=\"255\" height=\"288\" \/>Kevin Murphy, chair and professor of history of art, was recently interviewed about Tudor Revival houses for a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/realestate\/hot-property\/la-fi-hp-architecture-spotlight-tudor-revival-20180120-story.html\"><em>Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/a> article spotlighting the architectural style that he addressed in a beautifully illustrated book, <em>The Tudor Home<\/em> (Rizzoli International Publications, 2015).<\/p>\n<p>The Tudor-style homes were supposed to recall a pre-modern, pre-industrial, pre-urban and pre-class- and ethnic-conflict period, said Murphy, &#8220;which was pretty much an escapist fantasy but nevertheless a pretty powerful one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"card collection-item \">\n<div class=\" card-content \">\n<p>When Wall Street money in the early 1900s gave rise to upscale New York City suburbs, the newly wealthy built homes or &#8220;stockbroker Tudors&#8221; as they were later dubbed. &#8220;They wanted to give the impression of being more established, not be so much nouveau riche as old riche,&#8221; said Murphy. For some it was also important to establish Anglo-Saxon bona fides and distinguish themselves from the influx of Southern European and Asian immigrants at the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>The Tudor Home<\/em>\u00a0showcases the wide variety of Tudor homes and the many manifestations the form has taken across the nation. With its distinctive hallmarks&#8212;steeply pitched gables and roofs covered in slate or imitation thatch, bays of casement windows with diamond-paned leaded glass, clustered chimney stacks, interiors of wood paneling and plasterwork, and half-timbered and stuccoed facades&#8212;the Tudor-style house has been a favorite among homeowners since its birth in sixteenth-century England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Murphy, chair and professor of history of art, was recently interviewed about Tudor Revival houses for a\u00a0Los Angeles Times article spotlighting the architectural style that he addressed in a beautifully illustrated book, The Tudor Home (Rizzoli International Publications, 2015). The Tudor-style homes were supposed to recall a pre-modern, pre-industrial, pre-urban and pre-class- and ethnic-conflict&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7000,"featured_media":8139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hart","category-news","category-vrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8120"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8141,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8120\/revisions\/8141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}