Author: Clay Lancaster
Publisher: Artabras
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A well-known architectural historian explores the bungalow both as an art form and an architectural document reflecting middle-class life in early 20th-century America. With plans, interiors, furnishings, more. 193 illustrations.
The American Bungalow, 1880-1930
Author: Clay Lancaster
Publisher: Artabras
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A well-known architectural historian explores the bungalow both as an art form and an architectural document reflecting middle-class life in early 20th-century America. With plans, interiors, furnishings, more. 193 illustrations.
Publisher: Artabras
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A well-known architectural historian explores the bungalow both as an art form and an architectural document reflecting middle-class life in early 20th-century America. With plans, interiors, furnishings, more. 193 illustrations.
American Bungalow Style
Author: Robert Winter
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 068480168X
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
In the tradition of The Wright Style, this lush volume captures the charm of that Arts and Crafts-era building type called the bungalow--and provides a wealth of ideas for restoring and decorating these historic American homes. 300+ full-color photos. 14 black & white photos. Line drawings.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 068480168X
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
In the tradition of The Wright Style, this lush volume captures the charm of that Arts and Crafts-era building type called the bungalow--and provides a wealth of ideas for restoring and decorating these historic American homes. 300+ full-color photos. 14 black & white photos. Line drawings.
The American Bungalow
Author: Clay Lancaster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
The American Essay in the American Century
Author: Ned Stuckey-French
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 082621925X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
In modern culture, the essay is often considered an old-fashioned, unoriginal form of literary styling. The word essay brings to mind the uninspired five-paragraph theme taught in schools around the country or the antiquated, Edwardian meanderings of English gentlemen rattling on about art and old books. These connotations exist despite the fact that Americans have been reading and enjoying personal essays in popular magazines for decades, engaging with a multitude of ideas through this short-form means of expression. To defend the essay—that misunderstood staple of first-year composition courses—Ned Stuckey-French has written The American Essay in the American Century. This book uncovers the buried history of the American personal essay and reveals how it played a significant role in twentieth-century cultural history. In the early 1900s, writers and critics debated the “death of the essay,” claiming it was too traditional to survive the era’s growing commercialism, labeling it a bastion of British upper-class conventions. Yet in that period, the essay blossomed into a cultural force as a new group of writers composed essays that responded to the concerns of America’s expanding cosmopolitan readership. These essays would spark the “magazine revolution,” giving a fresh voice to the ascendant middle class of the young century. With extensive research and a cultural context, Stuckey-French describes the many reasons essays grew in appeal and importance for Americans. He also explores the rise of E. B. White, considered by many the greatest American essayist of the first half of the twentieth century whose prowess was overshadowed by his success in other fields of writing. White’s work introduced a new voice, creating an American essay that melded seriousness and political resolve with humor and self-deprecation. This book is one of the first to consider and reflect on the contributions of E. B. White to the personal essay tradition and American culture more generally. The American Essay in the American Century is a compelling, highly readable book that illuminates the history of a secretly beloved literary genre. A work that will appeal to fiction readers, scholars, and students alike, this book offers fundamental insight into modern American literary history and the intersections of literature, culture, and class through the personal essay. This thoroughly researched volume dismisses, once and for all, the “death of the essay,” proving that the essay will remain relevant for a very long time to come.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 082621925X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
In modern culture, the essay is often considered an old-fashioned, unoriginal form of literary styling. The word essay brings to mind the uninspired five-paragraph theme taught in schools around the country or the antiquated, Edwardian meanderings of English gentlemen rattling on about art and old books. These connotations exist despite the fact that Americans have been reading and enjoying personal essays in popular magazines for decades, engaging with a multitude of ideas through this short-form means of expression. To defend the essay—that misunderstood staple of first-year composition courses—Ned Stuckey-French has written The American Essay in the American Century. This book uncovers the buried history of the American personal essay and reveals how it played a significant role in twentieth-century cultural history. In the early 1900s, writers and critics debated the “death of the essay,” claiming it was too traditional to survive the era’s growing commercialism, labeling it a bastion of British upper-class conventions. Yet in that period, the essay blossomed into a cultural force as a new group of writers composed essays that responded to the concerns of America’s expanding cosmopolitan readership. These essays would spark the “magazine revolution,” giving a fresh voice to the ascendant middle class of the young century. With extensive research and a cultural context, Stuckey-French describes the many reasons essays grew in appeal and importance for Americans. He also explores the rise of E. B. White, considered by many the greatest American essayist of the first half of the twentieth century whose prowess was overshadowed by his success in other fields of writing. White’s work introduced a new voice, creating an American essay that melded seriousness and political resolve with humor and self-deprecation. This book is one of the first to consider and reflect on the contributions of E. B. White to the personal essay tradition and American culture more generally. The American Essay in the American Century is a compelling, highly readable book that illuminates the history of a secretly beloved literary genre. A work that will appeal to fiction readers, scholars, and students alike, this book offers fundamental insight into modern American literary history and the intersections of literature, culture, and class through the personal essay. This thoroughly researched volume dismisses, once and for all, the “death of the essay,” proving that the essay will remain relevant for a very long time to come.
Frank Lloyd Wright Versus America
Author: Donald Leslie Johnson
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262600224
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
For his critics and biographers, the 1930s have always been the most challenging period of Frank Lloyd Wright's career. This account uses the architect's long-inaccessable archives at Taliesin West to provide a balanced evaluation of Wright in the 1930s. It separates Wright's design activities from his self-promotion and places his philosophy of individualism within the context of the times.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262600224
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
For his critics and biographers, the 1930s have always been the most challenging period of Frank Lloyd Wright's career. This account uses the architect's long-inaccessable archives at Taliesin West to provide a balanced evaluation of Wright in the 1930s. It separates Wright's design activities from his self-promotion and places his philosophy of individualism within the context of the times.
Country Houses and Seaside Cottages of the Victorian Era
Author: William T. Comstock
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486259727
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Forty-four authentic and charming designs for vacation homes in varied styles and sizes, most low-to-medium budget, with perspective views, elevations, and floor plans. 200 illustrations.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486259727
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Forty-four authentic and charming designs for vacation homes in varied styles and sizes, most low-to-medium budget, with perspective views, elevations, and floor plans. 200 illustrations.
Plantations of the Carolina Low Country
Author: Samuel Gaillard Stoney
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486260891
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Classic photo-and-text survey of extant plantation homes, churches and chapels built between 1686 and 1878 along South Carolina coastal plain. Detailed photographs, fascinating history, distinguishing characteristics of Medway, Middleburg, Exeter, Crowfield, Hampton, The Rocks, Lowndes' Grove, 48 other structures.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486260891
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Classic photo-and-text survey of extant plantation homes, churches and chapels built between 1686 and 1878 along South Carolina coastal plain. Detailed photographs, fascinating history, distinguishing characteristics of Medway, Middleburg, Exeter, Crowfield, Hampton, The Rocks, Lowndes' Grove, 48 other structures.
Early Domestic Architecture of Connecticut
Author: J. Frederick Kelly
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486144321
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Based on personal observation of surviving examples and research into colonial records, this book includes 242 measured diagrams (windows, door frames, construction details, etc.) and 192 photographs of more than 150 homes, 1650 to 1800. Authentic and invaluable. 434 illustrations.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486144321
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Based on personal observation of surviving examples and research into colonial records, this book includes 242 measured diagrams (windows, door frames, construction details, etc.) and 192 photographs of more than 150 homes, 1650 to 1800. Authentic and invaluable. 434 illustrations.
Cottage Architecture of Victorian America
Author: Elisha Charles Hussey
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486280653
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Handsome collection of mid-Victorian home designs reprinted from rare 1874 catalog. Floor plans, elevations, front views, more. 27 designs on 63 plates. Introductory text and specifications.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486280653
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Handsome collection of mid-Victorian home designs reprinted from rare 1874 catalog. Floor plans, elevations, front views, more. 27 designs on 63 plates. Introductory text and specifications.
My Father, Frank Lloyd Wright
Author: John Lloyd Wright
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486269863
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Charming memoir, by his son, of Wright as genius, father, and family man. The book also includes the complete text of William C. Gannet's The House Beautiful, a work designed by Wright. 10 halftones.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486269863
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Charming memoir, by his son, of Wright as genius, father, and family man. The book also includes the complete text of William C. Gannet's The House Beautiful, a work designed by Wright. 10 halftones.