Title & Author:

The Architectural historian in America : a symposium in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society of Architectural Historians / edited by Elisabeth Blair MacDougall.

Publication:

Washington : National Gallery of Art ; Hanover : Distributed by the University Press of New England, 1990.

Description:

316 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm

Series:

Studies in the history of art ; 35. Symposium papers / Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts ; 19

Notes:
Proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, and the Society of Architectural Historians, 8-10 December 1988. Cf. Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
American beginnings: Before 1870, founding fathers and amateur historians / Elisabeth Blair Macdougall. The discovery of America's architectural past, 1874-1914 / William B. Rhoads. "Lifewriting", first American biographers of architects and their works / Lisa Koenigsberg -- Architecture and history: History in the service of design, American architect-historians, 1870-1940 / Keith N. Morgan and Richard Cheek. History in the early American architectural journals / Mary N. Woods. Chicago in architectural history / David Van Zanten. The teaching of architectural history during the advent of modernism, 1920s-1950s / J.A. Chewning.
An American scholarly tradition: New England gothic, Charles Eliot Norton, Charles H. Moore, and Henry Adams / Michael W. Brooks. Medieval architectural scholarship in America, 1900-1940, Ralph Adams Cram and Kenneth John Conant / Peter Fergusson. The scholar and the studio, A. Kingsley Porter and the study of medieval architecture in the decade before the war / Linda Seidel. Renaissance and baroque architectural history in the United States / Tod Marder. East Asia, architectural history across war zones and political boundaries / Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt. Architectural historians before the fact / George Kubler. Outside the academy, a century of vernacular architecture studies, 1890-1900 / Dell Upton.
Some American personalities: The writings of Fiske Kimball, a synthesis of architectural history and practice / Lauren Weiss Bricker. Lewis Mumford, the architectural critic as historian / Robert Wojtowicz. Henry-Russell Hitchcock, the architectural historian as critic and connoisseur / Helen Searing. Sigfried Giedion at Harvard University / Eduard F. Sekler. Architecture criticism in a historical context, the case of Herbert Croly / Suzanne Stephens. Appendix, American doctoral dissertations in architectural and planning history, 1898-1972.
Also issued online.

ISBN:

0894681397 (paperback)
9780894681394 (paperback)

Subject:

Society of Architectural Historians.
Architectural historians United States Congresses.
Architecture United States Historiography Congresses.
Architectural historians United States.
Architecture United States.
Historiens de l'architecture États-Unis.
Architecture États-Unis.
Historiens de l'architecture États-Unis Congrès.
Architecture États-Unis Historiographie Congrès.
Architecture
Architectural historians
Architecture Historiography
Architectuurgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
Arquitetura (historiografia)
Arquitetura (estados unidos)
United States

Form/genre:

Government publications
Congress
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

MacDougall, Elisabeth B.
Society of Architectural Historians.
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (U.S.)
Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) ; 35.
Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.). Symposium papers ; 19.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 55790
Call No.: ID:90-B4237
Status: Available