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Louis H. Sullivan and a 19th-century poetics of naturalized architecture / Lauren S. Weingarden.
Fine Arts Library NA737.S9 W45 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weingarden, Lauren S., 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sullivan, Louis H., 1856-1924--Criticism and interpretation.
- Sullivan, Louis H.
- Sullivan, Louis H., 1856-1924--Aesthetics.
- Sullivan, Louis H., 1856-1924.
- Decoration and ornament, Architectural.
- Aesthetics.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 412 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]
- Contents:
- List of figures
- Abbreviations of frequently cited sources and institutions
- Preface and acknowledgements
- About the author
- Introduction : reviewing Sullivan after Modernism
- The Romantic context and Emerson's poetic project for an American art
- John Ruskin : the picturesque discourse and the language of architectural naturalism
- Gothic naturalism and the Ruskinian critical tradition in America
- The auditorium building : a Ruskinian reading
- Ruskin's reception in the Chicago School
- Sullivan's emergence as a landscape poet-architect
- Naturalized technology : Sullivan's theory of skyscraper design
- Ut pictura architectura : Sullivan's pictorial techniques for representing nature in architecture
- The transportation building : Sullivan's manifesto of poeticized architecture
- Epilogue : the problem of Sullivan's poetic legacy
- Selected bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [401]-405) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780754663089
- 0754663086
- OCLC:
- 237788703
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