Evolving Transcendentalism in Literature and Architecture : Frank Furness, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Title:
Evolving Transcendentalism in Literature and Architecture : Frank Furness, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Author:
Uechi, Naomi Tanabe.
ISBN:
9781443866408
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (201 pages)
Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE - FURNESS AND EMERSON -- CHAPTER TWO - SULLIVAN AND WHITMAN -- CHAPTER THREE - WRIGHT AND EMERSON -- CHAPTER FOUR - WRIGHT AND THOREAU -- CHAPTER FIVE - WRIGHT AND WHITMAN -- CHAPTER SIX - WRIGHT AND TRANSCENDENTALIST SUCCESSORS -- APPENDIX -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Abstract:
Evolving Transcendentalism in Literature and Architecture: Frank Furness, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright demonstrates how American architects read literature and transformed abstract philosophy and literary form into physical substance. Furness, Sullivan, and Wright were inspired by such Transcendentalists as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman, and attempted to embody the concepts of nature, American identity, and Universalism in their architecture. Notably, th...
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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