Accents As Well As Broad Effects Writings on Architecture, Landscape, and the Environment, 1876-1925

Name: Accents As Well As Broad Effects Writings on Architecture, Landscape, and the Environment, 1876-1925
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ISBN: 9780520201262

ISBN-10: 0520201264

ISBN-13: 9780520201262

Edition: 1996

Authors: David Gebhard, Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, Mariana G. Van Rensselaer

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Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851-1934) is highly regarded among architectural historians for her 1888 biography of the nineteenth-century architect Henry Hobson Richardson. Less well known are her writings on architecture, decorative art, gardening, and landscape design, works that provide a rare view of cities and rural environments in turn-of-the-century America. Now David Gebhard brings Van Rensselaer's significant writings together in one volume, including a chapter from the 1925 edition ofArt Out-of-Doors: Hints on Good Taste in Gardening. An established critic in environmental and literary circles, Van Rensselaer wrote for the general public in such journals as theCentury…

Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/19/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 376
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Introduction




Architecture as a Profession (1887)



Client and Architect (1890)



Architectural Fitness (1891)



The Restorations at Goslar (1878)



Color in Rural Buildings (1892)



The Grant Monument for Riverside Park (1891)



The Artistic Triumph of the Fair-Builders (1892)



The Madison Square Garden (1894)



The New Public Library in Boston: Its Artistic Aspects (1895)



Eleventh Annual Exhibition of the Architectural League of New York (1896)



Decorative Art and Its Dogmas (1880)



Public Buildings (1)



Public Buildings (2)



Commercial Buildings



Churches



City Dwellings (1)



City Dwellings (2)



American Country Dwellings (1)



American Country Dwellings (2)



American Country Dwellings (3)



Landscape Gardening: A Definition (1888)



Frederick Law Olmsted (1893)



Proposed Plan for Madison Square, New York City (1896)



Japanese Gardening (1889)



The Protection of Road-Sides (1893)



Changes (1925)



Early Autumn near Cape Cod (1892)



Wood Roads on Cape Cod (1892)



The Good Work of an Improvement Association at Narragansett Pier (1895)



A Glimpse of Nantucket (1888)



Newport (1) (1888)



Newport (2) (1888)


Bibliography


Index