Architectural Follies in America; Or, Hammer, Sawtooth & Nail
Title | Architectural Follies in America; Or, Hammer, Sawtooth & Nail PDF eBook |
Author | Clay Lancaster |
Publisher | |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Architecture |
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Follies in America
Title | Follies in America PDF eBook |
Author | Kerry Dean Carso |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 213 |
Release | 2021-08-15 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1501755943 |
Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as "follies," from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration in 1876. In a period of increasing nationalism, follies—such as temples, summerhouses, towers, and ruins—brought a range of European architectural styles to the United States. By imprinting the land with symbols of European culture, landscape gardeners brought their idea of civilization to the American wilderness. Kerry Dean Carso's interdisciplinary approach in Follies in America examines both buildings and their counterparts in literature and art, demonstrating that follies provide a window into major themes in nineteenth-century American culture, including tensions between Jeffersonian agrarianism and urban life, the ascendancy of middle-class tourism, and gentility and social class aspirations.
American Studies
Title | American Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Salzman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 888 |
Release | 1986-08-29 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780521266864 |
This is an annotated bibliography of 20th century books through 1983, and is a reworking of American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography of Works on the Civilization of the United States, published in 1982. Seeking to provide foreign nationals with a comprehensive and authoritative list of sources of information concerning America, it focuses on books that have an important cultural framework, and does not include those which are primarily theoretical or methodological. It is organized in 11 sections: anthropology and folklore; art and architecture; history; literature; music; political science; popular culture; psychology; religion; science/technology/medicine; and sociology. Each section contains a preface introducing the reader to basic bibliographic resources in that discipline and paragraph-length, non-evaluative annotations. Includes author, title, and subject indexes. ISBN 0-521-32555-2 (set) : $150.00.
American Architecture
Title | American Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Architecture |
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Catalog of the Avery Memorial Architectural Library of Columbia University: Syme - Vanc
Title | Catalog of the Avery Memorial Architectural Library of Columbia University: Syme - Vanc PDF eBook |
Author | Avery Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 876 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Architecture |
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Landscape
Title | Landscape PDF eBook |
Author | John Brinckerhoff Jackson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 470 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | City planning |
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Guide to Historic Preservation, Historical Agencies, and Museum Practices: a Selective Bibliography
Title | Guide to Historic Preservation, Historical Agencies, and Museum Practices: a Selective Bibliography PDF eBook |
Author | Merrilyn Rogers O'Connell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Art |
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