Research Catalog

Title

Beaux arts New York / David Garrard Lowe.

Author

Lowe, David Garrard.

Publication

New York : Whitney Library of Design, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

PaineWebber Art Gallery.

Description

128 p. : ill.; 21 x 22 cm.

Summary

Let Historian David Garrard Lowe take you on an architectural and cultural tour of Beaux Arts New York. The author's lively text and detailed captions accompanying over 145 superb photographs and drawings illuminate the period between 1880 and the First World War, when New York was the de facto capital of the United States and the spirit of the famous Parisian Beaux-Arts ateliers was recreated in some of the city's greatest architectural firms, including Hunt; McKim, Mead & White; and Carrere & Hastings. Beaux Arts New York is a must for history and architecture buffs, a perfect gift for anyone visiting or simply enchanted by New York.

Subject

• Geschichte 1860-1920
• Architecture > New York (State) > New York > History
• Eclecticism in architecture > New York (State) > New York
• Architecture > New York (État) > New York > Histoire
• Éclectisme en architecture > New York (État) > New York
• Architecture
• Architektur
• Buildings
• Eclecticism in architecture
• Historismus
• New York (N.Y.) > Buildings, structures, etc
• New York (N.Y.)
• New York (State) > New York

Genre/Form

• History.
• k – Exhibition – v – publications.

Note

• Based on an exhibition held at the PaineWebber Art Gallery.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 126) and index.

Contents

Grand entrances -- Magnificant caravansaries -- Civic pride -- Commercial grace -- Public pleasures -- Celebrating art and learning -- Places of worship and urban monuments -- Clubland -- Domestic opulence.

ISBN

0823004813 (paper)

LCCN

98003935

OCLC

• 38886655
• ocm38886655
• SCSB-367529

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library