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Book Bulletin

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  • Author : Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1925
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 586 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.) and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Landscape Architecture

Download or read book Landscape Architecture written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beatrix Farrand

Download or read book Beatrix Farrand written by Judith B. Tankard and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only monograph to chronicle the life and work of one of the most important figures in American landscape architecture. Beatrix Farrand, the only female founder of the American Society of Landscape Architects, is one of the most important landscape architects of the early twentieth century. Today the scope of her work and her influence on the profession are widely acknowledged, and her gardens are being studied, restored, and opened to the public. A long-awaited updated edition of the 2009 definitive monograph, Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect chronicles the life and work of one of the most important figures in American landscape architecture. Born into a prominent New York family (she was Edith Wharton’s niece), Farrand designed lavish gardens for the leaders of society, including the Harknesses, the Rockefellers, and the Blisses. Ultimately, her portfolio extended to college and university campuses, including Princeton, Yale, and the University of Chicago, and public gardens, the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and the Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden among them. Her best-known design is the landscape at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., originally a private residence with extensive grounds and now a research center for Harvard University surrounded by a naturalistic park restored and maintained by the National Park Service. Deeply influenced by the English garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, Farrand was known for broad expanses of lawn with deep swaths of borders planted in a subtle palette of foliage and flowers. In her public work, she adapted this design strategy to create paths and plantings that define the character of the space and the hecirculation through it. Heavily illustrated with archival images and photographs of her gardens at their peak—many taken especially for this book, Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect also displays beautiful watercolor wash renderings of her designs, now preserved at College of Environmental Design of the University of California at Berkeley. The new edition includes updated images that reflect the current state of gardens including the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden, the International House Courtyard at the University of Chicago, Garland Farm (Farrand’s last home and garden, which has recently been restored), Dumbarton Oaks, Dumbarton Oaks Park (which was not included in the first edition), among others. The book concludes with a comprehensive list of Farrand’s commissions and the gardens open to the public, providing direction for further study and exploration. It also features a new preface outlining the milestones in research since the first edition's publication, updated details about ownership and renovations of many properties, and a revised bibliography including articles and books published over the past ten years. Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Farrand's birth and written by landscape historian and preservation consultant Judith B. Tankard, Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect takes readers on a tour of Farrand’s finest works, celebrating her influence on succeeding generations of women landscape architects.

Book Wright on Exhibit

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathryn Smith
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2022-07-12
  • ISBN : 0691246416
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Wright on Exhibit written by Kathryn Smith and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of Frank Lloyd Wright's exhibitions of his own work—a practice central to his career More than one hundred exhibitions of Frank Lloyd Wright's work were mounted between 1894 and his death in 1959. Wright organized the majority of these exhibitions himself and viewed them as crucial to his self-presentation as his extensive writings. He used them to promote his designs, appeal to new viewers, and persuade his detractors. Wright on Exhibit presents the first history of this neglected aspect of the architect’s influential career. Drawing extensively from Wright’s unpublished correspondence, Kathryn Smith challenges the preconceived notion of Wright as a self-promoter who displayed his work in search of money, clients, and fame. She shows how he was an artist-architect projecting an avant-garde program, an innovator who expanded the palette of installation design as technology evolved, and a social activist driven to revolutionize society through design. While Wright’s earliest exhibitions were largely for other architects, by the 1930s he was creating public installations intended to inspire debate and change public perceptions about architecture. The nature of his exhibitions expanded with the times beyond models, drawings, and photographs to include more immersive tools such as slides, film, and even a full-scale structure built especially for his 1953 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum. Placing Wright’s exhibitions side by side with his writings, Smith shows how integral these exhibitions were to his vision and sheds light on the broader discourse concerning architecture and modernism during the first half of the twentieth century. Wright on Exhibit features color renderings, photos, and plans, as well as a checklist of exhibitions and an illustrated catalog of extant and lost models made under Wright’s supervision.

Book The United States Art Directory and Year book

Download or read book The United States Art Directory and Year book written by Sylvester Rosa Koehler and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Long Island Landscapes and the Women Who Designed Them

Download or read book Long Island Landscapes and the Women Who Designed Them written by Cynthia Zaitzevsky and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of eminent women landscape architects who flourished in the golden age of country estates. This beautiful book covers in depth the work of six designers Beatrix Farrand, Martha Hutcheson, Marian Coffin, Ellen Shipman, Ruth Dean, and Annette Hoyt Flanders and looks at a dozen other less-well-known women. It focuses on the Long Island projects that constituted a large part of their work and brings these pioneering women to life as people and as professionals.

Book The United States Art Directory and Year book

Download or read book The United States Art Directory and Year book written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Art and Architecture Division

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Art and Architecture Division written by New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1975 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library  1911 1971

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent

Download or read book American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent written by Kathleen A. Foster and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of the transformation of American watercolor practice between 1866 and 1925 The formation of the American Watercolor Society in 1866 by a small, dedicated group of painters transformed the perception of what had long been considered a marginal medium. Artists of all ages, styles, and backgrounds took up watercolor in the 1870s, inspiring younger generations of impressionists and modernists. By the 1920s many would claim it as "the American medium." This engaging and comprehensive book tells the definitive story of the metamorphosis of American watercolor practice between 1866 and 1925, identifying the artist constituencies and social forces that drove the new popularity of the medium. The major artists of the movement - Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, William Trost Richards, Thomas Moran, Thomas Eakins, Charles Prendergast, Childe Hassam, Edward Hopper, Charles Demuth, and many others - are represented with lavish color illustrations. The result is a fresh and beautiful look at watercolor's central place in American art and culture.

Book American Art Annual

Download or read book American Art Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Art Directory

Download or read book American Art Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biographical material formerly included in the directory is issued separately as Who's who in American art, 1936/37-

Book Claude Raguet Hirst

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  • Author : Claude Raguet Hirst
  • Publisher : Hudson Hills
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780918881540
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Claude Raguet Hirst written by Claude Raguet Hirst and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 2004 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first publication devoted to Hirst's oils and watercolors and her transformation of the still life painting through the creation of works that appeal to both men and women, contrasting with her male contemporaries who painted primarily for a male audience. 72 colour& 29 b/w illustrations

Book The American Contractor

Download or read book The American Contractor written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Real Estate Record and Builders  Guide

Download or read book Real Estate Record and Builders Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Serials Catalog

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  • Author : Iowa State University. Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 734 pages

Download or read book Serials Catalog written by Iowa State University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Art Interchange

Download or read book The Art Interchange written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: