Avant-garde in the cornfields : architecture, landscape, and preservation in New Harmony / Ben Nicholson and Michelangelo Sabatino, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nicholson, Ben, editor.

Sabatino, Michelangelo, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Midcentury modern (Architecture)--Indiana--New Harmony.

Midcentury modern (Architecture).

Art patronage--Indiana--New Harmony.

Art patronage.

Cultural landscapes--Indiana--New Harmony.

Cultural landscapes.

Cultural property--Protection--Indiana--New Harmony.

Cultural property.

Buildings--Indiana--New Harmony.

Buildings.

Cultural property--Protection.

Indiana--New Harmony.

Physical Description:

xxxix, 351 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]

Contents:

Jane Blaffer Owen and Kenneth Dale Owen : a family and educational portrait / Nancy Mangum McCaslin

Patronage and modernism / Stephen Fox

New Harmony as an evolving commemorative environment / Christine Gorby

'The rib cage of the human heart' : Philip Johnson's Roofless Church / Cammie McAtee

Frederick Kiesler's Grotto : a Promethean spirit in New Harmony / Ben Nicholson with William R. Crout

The New Harmony gardens of Jane Blaffer Owen / Christine Gorby

The New Harmony Atheneum : white collage / Ben Nicholson

Voices in New Harmony. Estranged and reunited : the new being / Paul Tillich

Reflections on New Harmony / Ralph Grayson Schwarz

The Jane Blaffer Owen Sanctuary plan (2013) within her vision for New Harmony / Kenneth A. Schuette Jr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Avant-garde in the cornfields.

ISBN:

9781517903138

1517903130

9781517903145

1517903149

OCLC:

1055569021