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Avant-garde in the cornfields : architecture, landscape, and preservation in New Harmony / Ben Nicholson and Michelangelo Sabatino, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sabatino, Michelangelo.
- 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.
- New Harmony (Ind.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- New Harmony (Ind.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (408 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- A close examination of an iconic small town that gives boundless insights into architecture, landscape, preservation, and philanthropy Avant-Garde in the Cornfields is an in-depth study of New Harmony, Indiana, a unique town in the American Midwest renowned as the site of two successive Utopian settlements during the nineteenth century: the Harmonists and the Owenites. During the Cold War years of the twentieth century, New Harmony became a spiritual "living community" and attracted a wide variety of creative artists and architects who left behind landmarks that are now world famous. This engrossing and well-documented book explores the architecture, topography, and preservation of New Harmony during both periods and addresses troubling questions about the origin, production, and meaning of the town's modern structures, landscapes, and gardens. It analyzes how these were preserved, recognizing the funding that has made New Harmony so vital, and details the elaborate ways in which the town remains an ongoing experiment in defining the role of patronage in historic preservation. An important reappraisal of postwar American architecture from a rural perspective, Avant-Garde in the Cornfields presents provocative ideas about how history is interpreted through design and historic preservation--and about how the extraordinary past and present of New Harmony continue to thrive today. Contributors: William R. Crout, Harvard U; Stephen Fox, Rice U; Christine Gorby, Pennsylvania State U; Cammie McAtee, Harvard U; Nancy Mangum McCaslin; Kenneth A. Schuette Jr., Purdue U; Ralph Schwarz; Paul Tillich.
- 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.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4529-6037-2
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