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The Architectural historian in America : a symposium in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society of Architectural Historians / edited by Elisabeth Blair MacDougall.
- Title
- The Architectural historian in America : a symposium in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society of Architectural Historians / edited by Elisabeth Blair MacDougall.
- Publication
- Washington : National Gallery of Art ; Hanover [N.H.] : Distributed by the University Press of New England, 1990.
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- Description
- 316 p. : ill., ports.; 29 cm.
- Series Statement
- Studies in the history of art ; 35. Symposium papers / Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts ; 19
- Uniform Title
- Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) 35.
- Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.). Symposium papers 19.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Government publications – United States.
- Congress
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Actes de congrès.
- Note
- "Proceedings of the symposium ... sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, and the Society of Architectural Historians, 8-10 December 1988"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- American beginnings: Before 1870, founding fathers and amateur historians / Elisabeth Blair Macdougall. The discovery of America's architectural past, 1874-1914 / William B. Rhoads. "Lifewriting", first American biographers of architects and their works / Lisa Koenigsberg -- Architecture and history: History in the service of design, American architect-historians, 1870-1940 / Keith N. Morgan and Richard Cheek. History in the early American architectural journals / Mary N. Woods. Chicago in architectural history / David Van Zanten. The teaching of architectural history during the advent of modernism, 1920s-1950s / J. A. Chewning.
- An American scholarly tradition: New England gothic, Charles Eliot Norton, Charles H. Moore, and Henry Adams / Michael W. Brooks. Medieval architectural scholarship in America, 1900-1940, Ralph Adams Cram and Kenneth John Conant / Peter Fergusson. The scholar and the studio, A. Kingsley Porter and the study of medieval architecture in the decade before the war / Linda Seidel. Renaissance and baroque architectural history in the United States / Tod Marder. East Asia, architectural history across war zones and political boundaries / Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt. Architectural historians before the fact / George Kubler. Outside the academy, a century of vernacular architecture studies, 1890-1900 / Dell Upton.
- Some American personalities: The writings of Fiske Kimball, a synthesis of architectural history and practice / Lauren Weiss Bricker. Lewis Mumford, the architectural critic as historian / Robert Wojtowicz. Henry-Russell Hitchcock, the architectural historian as critic and connoisseur / Helen Searing. Sigfried Giedion at Harvard University / Eduard F. Sekler. Architecture criticism in a historical context, the case of Herbert Croly / Suzanne Stephens. Appendix, American doctoral dissertations in architectural and planning history, 1898-1972.
- ISBN
- 0894681397
- OCLC
- 21546118
- SCSB-10386599
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library