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Auteur(s) : Craven, Wayne
Titre(s) : Marble halls [Texte imprimé] : beaux-arts classicism and civic architecture in the Gilded Age / Wayne Craven
Publication : Newark, Delaware : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Co-published
with Rowman & Littlefield,, 2017
Description matérielle : 288 pages : illustrations (en partie en couleur), plans ; 27 cm
Note(s) : Comprend des références bibliographiques (pages 266-279) et un index
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 being mainly agrarian and largely
concerned with internal matters, such as the settlement of the vast interior of the
West, to being a mighty industrial and financial giant of international standing and
global concerns. Yet the leaders of the Gilded Age chose to accept the nation's heritage
as a beneficiary of Western culture. In erecting and decorating its major civic buildings,
they chose the classicism of the Beaux-Arts style to assert America's new leadership
role, to declare its high-mindedness, to display the creative energies of its financiers,
industrialists, and mega-merchants, its inventors, architects, painters, sculptors,
artisans, and keepers of culture, and to house its institutions and commercial enterprises
such as courthouses, libraries, art museums, train stations, and social clubs
Sujet(s) : Bâtiments publics -- États-Unis -- 1870-1914
Architecture publique -- États-Unis -- 1870-1914
Indice(s) Dewey :
720.973 (23e éd.) = Architecture - États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0692884211. - ISBN 9780692884218 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb458224774
Notice n° :
FRBNF45822477
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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
