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Avant-Garde in the Cornfields - Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,559
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Avant-Garde in the Cornfields - Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony (Hardcover): Michelangelo Sabatino,...

Avant-Garde in the Cornfields - Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony (Hardcover)

Michelangelo Sabatino, Ben Nicholson

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A close examination of an iconic small town that gives boundless insights into architecture, landscape, preservation, and philanthropy Avant-Garde in the Cornfields is an in-depth study of New Harmony, Indiana, a unique town in the American Midwest renowned as the site of two successive Utopian settlements during the nineteenth century: the Harmonists and the Owenites. During the Cold War years of the twentieth century, New Harmony became a spiritual "living community" and attracted a wide variety of creative artists and architects who left behind landmarks that are now world famous. This engrossing and well-documented book explores the architecture, topography, and preservation of New Harmony during both periods and addresses troubling questions about the origin, production, and meaning of the town's modern structures, landscapes, and gardens. It analyzes how these were preserved, recognizing the funding that has made New Harmony so vital, and details the elaborate ways in which the town remains an ongoing experiment in defining the role of patronage in historic preservation. An important reappraisal of postwar American architecture from a rural perspective, Avant-Garde in the Cornfields presents provocative ideas about how history is interpreted through design and historic preservation-and about how the extraordinary past and present of New Harmony continue to thrive today. Contributors: William R. Crout, Harvard U; Stephen Fox, Rice U; Christine Gorby, Pennsylvania State U; Cammie McAtee, Harvard U; Nancy Mangum McCaslin; Kenneth A. Schuette Jr., Purdue U; Ralph Schwarz; Paul Tillich.

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Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: October 2019
First published: 2019
Editors: Michelangelo Sabatino • Ben Nicholson
Dimensions: 254 x 203 x 51mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 978-1-5179-0313-8
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Local history
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Local history
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LSN: 1-5179-0313-0
Barcode: 9781517903138

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