Marble halls beaux-arts classicism and civic architecture in the Gilded Age
About American architecture as designed in the Classical Beaux-Arts manner during the Gilded Age - that is, between the Civil War and World War I - and its extension to the early 1940s, as it paralleled the rise of the Modern mode. It is about the transition that occurred as the nation changed from...
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Newark, Delaware
University of Delaware Press
[2017]
Lanham, Maryland Rowman & Littlefield [2017] |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Preface
- Introduction: the giant rises
- The world's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
- City planning: the city beautiful movement and the resurgence of classical architecture
- A palazzo of knowledge: the Boston Public Library
- The Library of Congress: democracy's palace
- Civic grandeur, civic religion, architecture, and allegory: "We have learned to live with magnificence"
- Westward the course of governance takes its way: mighty domes arise in the Midwest
- The great American train station: Roman Doric homes for the iron horse
- Libraries across the land: the halls of Carnegie
- Palaces of art: The Met and the mogul
- The gentleman's club: a home away from home; or a palazzo away from the palazzo
- Conclusion: the last, but magnificent, hurrahs