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The Virgin and the Dynamo - Public Murals in American Architecture, 1893-1917 (Hardcover, 1)
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The Virgin and the Dynamo - Public Murals in American Architecture, 1893-1917 (Hardcover, 1)
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The beaux-arts mural movement in America was fueled by energetic
young artists and architects returning from training abroad. They
were determined to transform American art and architecture to make
them more thematically cosmopolitan and technically fluid and
accomplished. The movement slowly coalesced around the decoration
of mansions of the Gilded Age elite, mostly in New York, and of
public buildings and institutions across the breadth of the
country. The Virgin and the Dynamo: Public Murals in American
Architecture, 1893-1917 is the first book in almost a century to
concentrate exclusively on the beaux-arts mural movement in the
United States. Beginning with a short history of the movement from
its inception in Boston during the American Renaissance, Bailey Van
Hook focuses on the movement's public manifestations in the period
between the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 and the
First World War. Professor Van Hook explores different aspects of
the mural movement, the concept and meaning of "decoration," the
claim that murals are inherently democratic, the shift in
preference from allegory to history, the gendered concept of
modernity, the ideologies behind the iconography, and, finally, the
decline of the movement when it began to be seen as old fashioned
and anachronistic. The Virgin and the Dynamo raises our
understanding of the beaux-arts movement to a new level. For the
general reader, this illustrated history will explain many familiar
representations of local and national values.
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