Form and Function : Remarks on Art, Design and Architecture / Horatio Greenough.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenough, Horatio, 1805-1852, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Art, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1947]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book offers sound advice to practitioners of all the arts, and sound reasoning to students of aesthetics. Stating his principles in the mid-nineteenth century, Greenough was three generations ahead of his time. He reads today like a progressive contemporary, and many an architect, artist, and student of art may benefit by what he has to say. It was Greenough, not Whitman, who first protested against meaningless ornamentation. It was Greenough, not Ruskin, who first expressed the idea that the buildings are art of a pepole express their morality. It was Greenough, no Le Corbusier who first said that buildings designed primarily for us "may be called machines." It was Greenough, not Louis Sullivan, who first enunciated the principle that, in architecture, form must follow function. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1947.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Editor's Preface

Contents

Introduction,

Aesthetics at Washington

Remarks on American Art

American Architecture

Relative and Independent Beauty

Burke on the Beautiful

Criticism in Search of Beauty

Structure and Organization

Fashion in Relation to Progress

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Sep 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520311978

0520311973

OCLC:

1198929256