The skyscraper in American art, 1890-1931

著者

    • Schleier, Merrill

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The skyscraper in American art, 1890-1931

by Merrill Schleier

(A Da Capo paperback)

Da Capo Press, c1986

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注記

A revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, 1983

Reprint. Originally published: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, 1986

Includes bibliographical references

内容説明・目次

内容説明

A discussion of the various trends in American art and culture of the period, and the markedly different ways in which artists and designers reacted to the advent of the skyscraper. The book is illustrated and includes photographs by Alfred Stieglitz and Alvin Langdon Coburn; paintings by Georgia O'Keefe and Joseph Stella and sculpture, furniture and advertisements.

目次

  • Part 1 The critical response to the skyscraper, 1890-1917. Part 2 Tradition and innovation, 1890-1917: the traditional building and the skyscraper
  • construction
  • the skyline
  • the financial district
  • nature and the picturesque. Part 3 Alfred Stieglitz, modernism in America, and a new view of the skyscraper, 1890-1917: Stieglitz and the city
  • the periodicals
  • Alvin Langdon Coburn
  • the celebration of the individual skyscrapers - the Flatiron, Singer, and Woolworth buildings
  • the American modernists - Marin, Weber and Walkowitz
  • New York Dada. Part 4 Skyscraper mania, 1917-1931: aspects of skyscraper enthusiasm - rationality and transcendence
  • Charles Sheeler and the functional skyscraper
  • Margaret Bourke-White and Fortune magazine
  • the Utopians. Part 5 The urban cauldron, 1917-1931: the general failure of American values
  • strand and "Manhatta" (1921) - paradigm of urban ambivalence
  • death and rebirth - Stella, Ault and Hirsch
  • entrapment - the ballet "Skyscrapers" (1926)
  • images of removal and disequilibrium. Part 6 The art deco skyscrapers - its impact on the visual and decorative arts, 1916-1931.

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