Philip Johnson Life and Work

Name: Philip Johnson Life and Work
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ISBN: 9780226740584

ISBN-10: 0226740587

ISBN-13: 9780226740584

Edition: 1996

Authors: Franz Schulze

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In this critically acclaimed biography, Franz Schulze probes the private and professional life of one of the most famous architects and architectural critics of the twentieth century. The only child of a wealthy Midwestern family, Philip Johnson was a millionaire by the time he graduated from Harvard, and in 1932 he helped stage the historic International Style exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. A patron of the arts and a political activists who flirted with the politics of Hitler, Huey Long, and Father Coughlin, he went on to create controversial and historical structures such as the Glass House, the Roofless Church, the AT & T Building, the Crystal Cathedral, and many more.…

Book details

List price: $46.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/15/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 479
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.89" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Franz Schulze is the Hollender Professor of Art Emeritus at Lake Forest College. His many books include Philip Johnson: Life and Work and, as coauthor, Chicago's Famous Buildings, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Acknowledgments Prologue Part One: Origins and Directions, 1652-1934 From Nieuw Amsterdam to Overlook Road Homer and Louise The Irreplaceable Heir Harvard: Collision of Mind and Heart Alfred Barr The Pilgrimage Roads Moma, Russell, and the New Style Mies The American Invasion The 1932 Show: The Revolution Goes Uptown The Rise and Fall of Art Part Two: The Inglorious Detour, 1934-1946 Zarathustra and the Kingfish New London and the Radio Priest Tomorrow the World Back to Harvard The Penitential Private Part Three: Rebirth and Renewal, 1946-1953 Barr Again, Moma Again, Mies Again Domesticity Opus In Vitro The Early Fifties: Work, People, Worldview Part Four: The Break with Modernism,…