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In 1798 Robert Morris-"financier of the American Revolution," confidant of George Washington, former U.S. senator-plunged from the peaks of wealth and prestige into debtors' prison and public contempt. How could one of the richest men in the United States, one of only two founders who signed the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, suffer such a downfall? This book examines for the first time the extravagant Philadelphia town house Robert Morris built and its role in bringing about his ruin. Part biography, part architectural history, the book recounts Morris's wild successes as a merchant, his recklessness as a land speculator, and his unrestrained passion in building his palatial, doomed mansion, once hailed as the most expensive private building in the United States but later known as "Morris's Folly." Setting Morris's tale in the context of the nation's founding, this volume refocuses attention on an essential yet nearly forgotten American figure while also illuminating the origins of America's ongoing, ambivalent attitudes toward the superwealthy and their sensational excesses.

Founding Fathers of the United States --- Finance, Personal. --- Homes and haunts --- Morris, Robert,

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130 essays, interviews, manifesten, statements, gedichten en beschouwingen, waarvan 30 teksten voor het eerst in Nederlandse vertaling - teksten die ertoe doen binnen de beeldende kunst van na 1945

Art, Modern --- kunsttheorie --- 20ste eeuw --- Comparative literature --- art history --- art theory --- Contemporary [style of art] --- Art --- anno 1900-1999 --- Kunst ; 1945 --- -Art, Modern --- Morris Robert --- Musil Robert --- narcisme --- naslagwerk --- neue Wilden --- Newman Barnett --- Nietzsche Friedrich --- nouveau réalisme --- Nul --- Oldenburg Claes --- op art --- Peeters Henk --- Piene Otto --- Pieters Din --- Plato --- Pollock Jackson --- pop art --- postmodernisme --- post-painterly abstraction --- Reichenfeld J --- Reijnders Frank --- Reinhardt Ad --- Restany Pierre --- Rohde Carl --- Roodnat Bas --- Rooduijn Tom --- Rosenberg Harold --- Roszak Theodore --- Rothko Mark --- Ruyters Dominiek --- Sartre Jean-Paul --- Satie Erik --- schilderkunst --- Schoonhoven Jan --- Simons Riki --- Sontag Susan --- Steiner George --- Stein Gertrude --- Stella Frank --- Tapié Michel --- Tegenbosch Lambert --- Tilroe Anna --- Tinguely Jean --- twintigste eeuw --- Uecker Günther --- van Weelden Dirk --- Vos Marcel --- Warhol Andy --- Weiner Lawrence --- Wittgenstein Ludwig --- Wölfflin Heinrich --- Woolf Virginia --- Zero --- 7.038 --- beeldende kunst --- kunst 20e eeuw --- 7.01 --- Abramovic Marina --- abstracte kunst --- abstracte schilderkunst --- abstractie --- action painting --- Ad de Visser --- Adorno Theodor W --- After Nature --- Alloway Lawrence --- Andre Carl --- Appel Karel --- Armando --- art brut --- arte povera --- Baudrillard Jean --- beat generation --- beatniks --- beeldhouwkunst --- Beeren Wim --- Benjamin Walter --- Bergson Henri --- Beuys Joseph --- Bongard Willi --- Boomgaard Jeroen --- Broodthaers Marcel --- Cage John --- Cameron Dan --- Celant Germano --- Cobra --- concept art --- conceptuele kunst --- Constant --- Dante Arthur C --- de Kooning Willem --- den Hartog Jager Hans --- Denis Maurice --- Depondt Paul --- Derrida Jacques --- Dotremont Christian --- Dubuffet Jean --- Eco Umberto --- Emmerik Pam --- Engelander Ruud --- esthetica --- Fabre Jan --- Finkielkraut Alain --- fluxus --- Fontana Lucio --- fotografie --- Foucault Michel --- Fuchs Rudi --- Giacometti Alberto --- Gilbert & George --- Greenberg Clement --- Groot Ger --- Grootveld Robert Jasper --- Habermas Jürgen --- Hamilton Richard --- Hassan Ihab --- Heyting Lien --- Illich Ivan --- informele kunst --- installaties --- Jencks Charles --- Kaal Ron --- Kaprow Allan --- kinetische kunst --- Klein Yves --- Kosuth Joseph --- Kounellis Jannis --- kunst --- LeWitt Sol --- Lucebert --- Lüpertz Markus --- Lyotard Jean-François --- Maciunas George --- Manzoni Piero --- Mitchell Adrian --- Modern art --- kunstgeschiedenis - kunst na 1945 --- Nieuwe Ploeg (Group of artists) --- -Art --- Kunsten --- 1945 --- -20e eeuw --- Kunstgeschiedenis --- Schilderkunst --- Tekenkunst --- Beeldhouwkunst --- -Kunsten --- Kunst --- 2e helft 20e eeuw --- 20e eeuw --- -Kunst --- writings [documents] --- artists' statements --- Art, Modern - 20th century - Sources --- 20ste eeuw.