Title & Author:

Claude Bragdon & the beautiful necessity : eleven essays / edited by Eugenia Victoria Ellis ; and, Selections from an exhibition at the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of Rochester, River Campus Libraries / curated by Andrea G. Reithmayr.

Publication:

Rochester, N.Y. : Cary Graphic Arts Press, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2010.

Description:

xx, 216 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Claude Bragdon reads Arthur Schopenhauer: "Architecture is in space alone ..." / Christina Malathouni -- Claude Bragdon and pure design / Marie Frank -- Claude Bragdon: a pre-modern architect / Jean France -- Western New York's theosophical enlightener / Joscelyn Godwin -- Claude Bragdon: academic architect and the American renaissance / Richard Guy Wilson -- Architecture and the "spirit" of democracy: variations on a theme in the writings of Louis Sullivan, Claude Bragdon, and Frank Lloyd Wright / Joan Ockman -- Transnational transmedia modernism / Jonathan Massey -- Claude Bragdon's prehensile eye and preconditioned images / Mary Nixon -- On turning the corner to the fourth dimension: Claude Bragdon's isometric perspective / Paul Emmons -- Skewed stagecraft: Claude Bragdon's isometric theatrics / Marcia Feuerstein -- Claude Bragdon, the fourth dimension and modern art in cultural context / Linda Dalrymple Henderson -- Introduction to the exhibition / Andrea G. Reithmayr -- Catalogue -- Timeline of the life of Claude Bragdon -- Bibliography of the writings of Claude Bragdon.

Summary:

Claude Bragdon (1866-1946) was a first-generation modernist architect, as well as an illustrator, critic, theorist and theater designer. He practiced architecture in Rochester, New York throughout the Progressive Era. Although his masterpiece, the New York Central Railroad Station, was demolished in the 1960s-70s, the First Universalist Church, the Bevier Memorial Building, the Peterborough Bridge near Toronto, and nearly 100 residences remain today. A prolific writer, Bragdon published more than twenty books and hundreds of articles. He was nationally known for his graphic art, his writing on the fourth dimension, his Song & Light Festivals of 1915-1918, and his role in theater's New Stagecraft. He had technical and artistic expertise in many disciplines, making it difficult to categorize his work into a specific stylistic trend. His work as an early modernist is important both in its own right and as a key to other 20th century architects' work.

ISBN:

9781933360430 (alk. paper)
1933360437 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 Criticism and interpretation.
Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 Exhibitions.
Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
Essays.
exhibition catalogs.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946.
Ellis, Eugenia Victoria, 1953-
Reithmayr, Andrea G.
University of Rochester. Library. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.
Cary Graphic Arts Press.

Claude Bragdon and the beautiful necessity
Selections from an exhibition at the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of Rochester, River Campus Libraries

Holdings:

Location: Library main 267489
Call No.: BIB 199484
Status: Available