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American apocalypse : the great fire and the myth of Chicago / Ross Miller.
Fine Arts Library NA735.C4 M55 1990
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NA735.C4 M55 1990
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Ross.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Mutilation, defacement, etc--Illinois--Chicago.
- Architecture.
- Architecture--Mutilation, defacement, etc.
- History.
- Architecture--Conservation and restoration.
- Architecture, Modern.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Architecture--Conservation and restoration--Illinois--Chicago.
- Architecture, Modern--19th century--Illinois--Chicago.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Chicago (Ill.)--Fire, 1871.
- Architecture--Illinois--Chicago--History--19th century.
- Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The Chicago fire: the making of a legend
- Reluctant modernism: the past as present
- Derrick time: architecture, memory, and the poetics of ruin
- The fire as image: architecture and the problem of loss
- The shanty and the skyscraper
- Wright's piano: imagining the new Chicago
- Chicago black and white: the court, the university, the Midway, and the street.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Pam Scott.
- ISBN:
- 0226525996
- OCLC:
- 20392822
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