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The Tender Detail - Ornament and Sentimentality in the Architecture of Louis H. Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright (Paperback)
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The Tender Detail - Ornament and Sentimentality in the Architecture of Louis H. Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright (Paperback)
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The Tender Detail tells a story about repression, sentimentality,
sexuality, and ornament in architecture. The protagonists are Louis
H. Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, two of the most important
architects and designers in American history. Interweaving close
readings of their buildings and writings with wide-ranging
discussions across the fields of architecture, sexuality, gender,
and philosophy, the book explores how both men worked to solve the
problem of ornamentation. It shows how their solutions, while
widely different, were both intimately rooted in the tender
emotions of sentimentality. Viewing ornament in this way sheds new
light on Sullivan and Wright's artistic intentions, and reveals
much about the role of affect, the value of beauty in architecture,
and the agency and ontology of objects. Illuminated by personal
stories from their respective autobiographies, which add a level of
human interest unusual in an academic work, The Tender Detail is a
readable and rigorous architectural history which sheds fresh light
on Sullivan and Wright's relationship, their work, and on the
nature of ornament itself.
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