citings louis h. suliivan The Documents of Modern Art Director,
Robert MotherweU Kindergarten Chats revised 1918 and other writings
Louis H. Sullivan George Wittenborn, Inc., New York 22 N. Y.
Acknowledgments The publishers and editor wish to acknowledge their
indebtedness, for material, assistance and advice, to the following
persons Mr. George Grant Eimslie, executor of Sullivans literary
estate, whose - wholehearted cooperation made this publication
possible Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Morrison, of Hanover, N. H. the staff of
the Burnham Library of Architecture, The Art Institute of Chicago,
especially Miss Etheldred Abbot and Mrs. T. M. Hofmeester, Jr.
particular thanks are due for generous loan of manuscripts the
staff of the Avery Library, Columbia University, especially Mr.
Talbot Hamlin and Mrs. Corinne Spencer all other persons who have
kindly aided in obtaining documents and illustrative material.
Publishers Note During the last days of the war the publishers
determined upon the reprinting of the complete text of the
following works, an undertaking which was warmly seconded by Mr.
Eimslie. Our thoughts then turned to someone capable of handling
all the literary and technical details involved. Our gratitude and
admiration go to Isabella Athey who, in spite of many obstacles,
successfully collated all available material in order that the
contemporary reader should have the benefit of meeting a great
American thinker and architect. Without Miss A they s unfailing
endeavors as - well as valuable assistance from other sources this
publication might never have reached the public which we believe
Sullivans writings deserve. Copyright, 1947, by George Wittenborn,
Inc. 1018 Madison Ave., NewYork 21, N. Y. Manufactured in the
United States of America by The Gallery Press, New York, N. Y.
Offset reprint, 1955 Manufactured by Halliday Lithograph Corp.,
West Hanover, Mass. Cover design and typography by Paul Rand 4.
Editorial Note The printing of the unpublished revision of
Kindergarten Chats in this volume carries out at last Louis
Sullivans wish that his work be issued in book form his Foreword.,
written in July 1918, is our authority. That no publisher was found
during the six remaining years of Ms life., and that a good deal of
vagueness and misunderstanding arose concerning Sullivans attitude
to this work as well as with regard to the existence and condition
of a revised manuscript reflects the com monplace that human nature
and scholarship are inextricably bound together. Sullivan believed
that a building represented an act, and that such an act re vealed
the man behind it, the mind and ethics of the architect, more
conclusively and unerringly than any statement. In this sense, the
fifty-two consecutive essays entitled Kindergarten Chats are an
act, requiring no officious introduction or inter pretation.
Nevertheless, a few general remarks should be made to suggest the
nature and significance of Sullivans editing of 1918, particularly
since the first version published serially in 1901 is available
only in a few obscure files, and that edited by Claude Bragdon in 1
934 is out of print. From June to October 1918, Sullivan worked
over the manuscript and produced the text which follows, and which
therefore represents its definitive form. The actual manuscript
gives the impression that Sullivan revised in the exact meaning of
the word, that he gave attention to everysentence and paragraph,
that his alterations of word and phrase, his cutting and rewriting,
were the product of genuine reconsid eration and a desire for
greater clarity. The redundant or unprecise adjective was discarded
the specific term was substituted for the more general or the vague
one repetitive passages were deleted. Throughout this revision and
the text here pub lished was prepared directly from the original
manuscript it may be said that the secondary has been sacrificed to
the primary...
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