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Crystal and Arabesque: Claude Bragdon, Ornament, and Modern Architecture
Jonathan Massey
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Description for Crystal and Arabesque: Claude Bragdon, Ornament, and Modern Architecture
Hardcover. Claude Bragdon enjoyed an international reputation as an architect, designer, and critic working in the progressive tradition associated with Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Prairie School. This title shows how American modernists committed to social reform used ornament in fresh ways to engage the media and audiences of mass society. Num Pages: 352 pages, 204 illustrations. BIC Classification: AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 184 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1043.
From the 1890s to the 1930s, Claude Bragdon enjoyed an international reputation as an architect, designer, and critic working in the progressive tradition associated with Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Prairie School. In 1915 Bragdon created “projective ornament,” a system of geometric patterns designed to serve as a universal form-language integrating not only architecture, art, and design, but also a society divided by differences of class, gender, religion, culture, and national origin. Spreading across the surfaces of buildings, posters, books, and the settings Bragdon designed for massive community singing ... Read more
From the 1890s to the 1930s, Claude Bragdon enjoyed an international reputation as an architect, designer, and critic working in the progressive tradition associated with Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Prairie School. In 1915 Bragdon created “projective ornament,” a system of geometric patterns designed to serve as a universal form-language integrating not only architecture, art, and design, but also a society divided by differences of class, gender, religion, culture, and national origin. Spreading across the surfaces of buildings, posters, books, and the settings Bragdon designed for massive community singing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822943624
SKU
V9780822943624
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Ref
99-32
About Jonathan Massey
Jonathan Massey is associate professor in the Syracuse University School of Architecture.
Reviews for Crystal and Arabesque: Claude Bragdon, Ornament, and Modern Architecture
In this beautifully argued book based on a rich exploration of original material, Massey recognizes in a little-known turn-of-the century American architect a body of work that challenged the core of modern architecture with its normative emphasis on rationalism, its prohibitions against ornament, and its narrowly instrumental view of technology. Massey's combination of interdisciplinary breadth and substantial knowledge of architecture ... Read more