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Evolving transcendentalism in literature and architecture : Frank Furness, Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright / by Naomi Tanabe Uechi.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013Description: 1 online resource (185 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1322097437
  • 9781322097435
  • 9781443866408
  • 1443866407
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 720.973 23
LOC classification:
  • NA710 .U33 2013eb
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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.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-181) and index.

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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.

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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