Wayne Craven

Marble Halls

Civic and Urban Architecture in the Gilded Age

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Produktbeschreibung

Marble Halls is written for the intelligent layperson, rather than for the specialist in the history of architecture, who is interested in the architecture and interiors of America's Gilded Age as an expression of that era's quest for cultural equality with European nations, even as it paralleled the rise of the architectural style of Modernism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Delaware Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 226mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1565g
• ISBN-13: 9780692884218
• ISBN-10: 0692884211
• Artikelnr.: 50429246

Autorenporträt

Wayne Craven is The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Professor of Art History, Emeritus, at the University of Delaware.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction: The Giant Rises Chapter 1. The World's Columbian
Exposition, Chicago, 1893 Chapter 2. City Planning: The City Beautiful
Movement and the Resurgence of Classical Architecture Chapter 3. A Palazzo
of Knowledge: The Boston Public Library Chapter 4. The Library of Congress:
Democracy's Palace Chapter 5. Civic Grandeur, Civic Religion, Architecture,
and Allegory: "We have learned to live with magnificence" Chapter 6.
Westward the Course of Governance Takes Its Way: Mighty Domes Arise in the
Midwest Chapter 7. The Great American Train Station: Roman Doric Homes for
the Iron Horse Chapter 8. Libraries Across the Land: The Halls of Carnegie
Chapter 9. Palaces of Art: The Met and the Mogul Chapter 10. The
Gentleman's Club: A Home Away from Home; or, a Palazzo Away from the
Palazzo Conclusion: The Last, but Magnificent, Hurrahs Endnotes
Bibliography Acknowledgments Index