Main entry:

Gowans, Alan, author.

Title & Author:

Images of American living : four centuries of architecture and furniture as cultural expression / by Alan Gowans.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott, [1964]
©1964

Description:

xv, 498 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Medieval America: The 17th Century -- 1. Background: Arts of Survival on Stone and Iron Age Frontiers -- 2. Homestead and Fort: National Traditions in Folk Forms -- 3. Lords and Serfs: Feudal Traditions in New Spain -- 4. Prince and Peasant: Authoritarian Traditions in New France -- 5. Patroons and Paupers: Mercantile Traditions in New Netherlands -- 6. Cult and Circumstance: The Puritan Tradition in New England -- 7. Inspired Experiments: Traditions of Independence in Pennsylvania -- 8. Planters of Urbanity: Traditions of Leadership in the Old South -- 9. Medieval Spirit in Folk Forms: The Tradition of 17th-century American Art -- Classical America: The 18th Century -- 1. From Colonies to Nation: The Classical Spirit -- 2. Four Phases of the Classical Mind: 18th-century Furniture as Historical Expression -- 3. An Age of Transition: The William and Mary Period, 1700-1725 -- 4. Formulation of the Classical Mind: American Queen Anne, 1725-1750 -- 5. Classical Maturity: The Chippendale-Georgian Period, 1750-1775 -- 6. Classical Decadence: Adamesque-Federal, c. 1780-c.1820 -- 7. Diversity Within Unity: The Classical Mind as Regional and Class Expression -- 8. Artisan to Artist: The Classical Mind as Personal Expression
Victorian America: The 19th Century -- I. The "Classical Revivals": Transition to Victorian America -- 1. The Classical Symbol: Forms and Spirit of Neoclassicism in the New Republic -- 2. Towards a National Style: Experiments in Classical Symbolism, 1800-1825 -- 3. Neoclassical America: The Greek Revival, c.1820-c.1840 -- 4. Classical Revival Architecture as National Expression -- II. Style as Language and Symbol: The Victorian Mind in Art -- 1. From Romance to Archaeology: Three Phases of Victorian Art -- 2. Introducing the Eclectic Mind: Forms and Spirit of Early Victorian At, c. 1820-c.1850 -- 3. The "Battle of the Styles": Gothic Revival as Anticlassical Expression, 1820-1850 -- 4. From Early to High Victorian: Picturesqueness in the Italianate Manner, c. 1845-c.1860 -- 5. End of Innocence: Picturesque Eclecticism and Postwar Civilization in the High Victorian Age, c.1860-c.1885 -- 6. Power and Plenty: Picturesque Eclecticism as Cultural Expression -- 7. "Richardsonian Romanesque": High Victorian Art as Personal Expression -- 8. Varieties of Realistic Experience: The Late Victorian Mind, c. 1885-c.1930 -- 9. "Revival of the Revivals": Late Victorian Academic Realism
20th-Century Man and 20th-Century Art in the United States -- I. "Organic Reality": The Late Victorian "Modern" Generation: c.1885-c.1920 -- 1. The "Rebels": Radicals versus Conservatives before World War I -- 2. New Reality in Old Forms: Late Victorian Principles in Early Modern Architecture, c.1885-c.1920 -- 3. Towards a New Tradition: The "Rebel" Rationale -- II. Modern Architecture Between the Wars: From Cult to Cultural Expression, c.1920-1940 -- 1. "Modernism" and the "Period House": "Normalcy" in the 1920s -- 2. From Europe to America: Anti-Victorian Reaction in the "International Style" -- 3. New Deal, New Order, New Architecture: The "International Style" as American Cultural Expression -- III. Since 1945: Architecture, Civilization, and Man in Modern America -- "For Good or Ill, Modern Architecture ..." -- Paradox I: Aspirins in the Age of Science -- Paradox II: Grey Flannel Suits in Space -- Paradox III: Supermen in the Age of Anxiety.
Also issued online.

Summary:

The author traces architecture and furniture patterns from the first primitive shelters, medieval in tradition to the sophisticated structures which mark the period of this nation's emergence into world leadership.

Subject:

Architecture United States History.
Furniture United States History.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire.
Meubles États-Unis Histoire.
Architecture.
Furniture.
Furniture, American History.
United States.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 92656
Call No.: 627; ID:86-B18308
Status: Available