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"Featuring new archival research and previously unpublished photographs and architectural plans, this volume fundamentally revises our understanding of the development of modern New York, focusing on elite domestic architecture within the contexts of social history, urban planning, architecture, interior design, and adaptive re-use. Contributions from emerging and established scholars, art historians, and practitioners offer a multi-faceted analysis of major figures such as Horace Trumbauer, Julian Francis Abele, Robert Venturi, and Richard Kelly. Taking the James B. Duke House, now home to NYU's Institute of Fine Arts, as its point of departure, this collection provides fresh perspectives on domestic spaces, urban forms, and social reforms that shaped early-twentieth century New York into the modern city we know today"--
American Studies --- Architecture --- Art History --- Cultural Studies --- History --- Social History --- Social Sciences --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- Sociology --- Architecture, Primitive --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- American studies --- Design and construction --- North America. --- Turtle Island (Continent) --- Art history --- History of art --- Dwellings --- Eclecticism in architecture --- Dwellings. --- Eclecticism in architecture. --- Duke, James Buchanan, --- Trumbauer, Horace, --- Abele, Julian F., --- 1 East 78th Street House (New York, N.Y.) --- New York University. --- 1898-1951 --- Upper East Side (New York, N.Y.) --- New York (N.Y.) --- New York (State) --- Upper class --- Architecture, Domestic --- Mansions --- Homes and haunts --- Fifth Avenue (New York, N.Y.) --- 1 East 78th Street House (New York, N.Y.). --- Upper East Side (New York, N.Y.).
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During the rise of New York from the capital of an upstart nation to a global metropolis, the visual language of Greek and Roman antiquity played a formative role in the development of the city's art and architecture. This compilation of essays offers a survey of diverse reinterpretations of classical forms in some of New York's most iconic buildings, public monuments, and civic spaces. Classical New York examines the influence of Greco-Roman thought and design from the Greek Revival of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through the late-nineteenth-century American Renaissance and Beaux Arts period and into the twentieth century's Art Deco. At every juncture, New Yorkers looked to the classical past for knowledge and inspiration in seeking out new ways to cultivate a civic identity, to design their buildings and monuments, and to structure their public and private spaces. Specialists from a range of disciplines--archaeology, architectural history, art history, classics, and history--focus on how classical art and architecture are repurposed to help shape many of New York City's most evocative buildings and works of art. Federal Hall evoked the Parthenon as an architectural and democratic model; the Pantheon served as a model for the creation of Libraries at New York University and Columbia University; Pennsylvania Station derived its form from the Baths of Caracalla; and Atlas and Prometheus of Rockefeller Center recast ancient myths in a new light during the Great Depression. Designed to add breadth and depth to the exchange of ideas about the place and meaning of ancient Greece and Rome in our experience of New York City today, this examination of post-Revolutionary art, politics, and philosophy enriches the conversation about how we shape space--be it civic, religious, academic, theatrical, or domestic--and how we make use of that space and the objects in it.
Neoclassicism (Architecture) --- American Renaissance. --- City Beautiful. --- Classical. --- Greece. --- Inscriptions. --- McKim, Mead, and White. --- New York. --- Reception. --- Rome. --- Urban Studies.
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