Main entry:

Lewis, Michael J., 1957-

Title & Author:

Frank Furness : architecture and the violent mind / Michael J. Lewis.

Publication:

New York : Norton, 2001.

Description:

x, 273 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-266) and index.
Introduction -- Abolition & architecture -- Frank Furness's war -- Late to the feast -- Fortune favors the bold -- The dog man -- Brave dreams -- Talkers are no great doers -- The white city & the red station -- To purchase oblivion -- The bravest of the brave.
Dust jacket.
Library copy: author's autographed presentation copy to Phyllis Lambert.

Summary:

"Philadelphia architect Frank Furness (1839-1912) produced the most aggressive and eye-catching buildings ever seen in the United States, merging French classicism, English medievalism, and New England transcendentalism. His energy, confidence, brashness, vulgarity, and full-throated love of life vibrate in his architecture."
"This first biography of the flamboyant personality whom Louis Sullivan dubbed "the dog man" shows Furness a man of his age, immersed in its most powerful currents and forces. It details his abolitionist upbringing in staid Philadelphia, the transformative experience of the Civil War (in which he served as a cavalry officer and earned a Congressional Medal of Honor), and its translation into swaggering architecture that met the needs for vivid commercial imagery in the Gilded Age. It recounts how Furness's rip-roaring professional style brought him success when he served a generation of veterans but helped make him a pariah in the transformed culture of America at the turn of the twentieth century."
"Michael J. Lewis's lively narrative draws on military records, unpublished family papers, interviews with family members, and contemporary documents, enriched by over 200 illustrations, including archival views of demolished masterpieces and contemporary photographs of Furness buildings that still stand today. Among these are the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the library of the University of Pennsylvania, churches, banks, a railroad station, and numerous row houses and mansions."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0393730638
9780393730630

Subject:

Furness, Frank, 1839-1912.
Furness, Frank 1839-1912
Furness, Frank, (1839-1912)
Architecture United States History 19th century.
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Architects United States Biography.
Architecture United States Biography.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture États-Unis Biographies.
Architectes États-Unis Biographies.
Architects
Architecture
Architektur
Bildband
Architekt
Architecture États-Unis 20e siècle.
architecte.
United States

Form/genre:

Biographies.
History

Added entries:

Presentation copies. Lewis, Michael J., 1957-
Autographs. Lewis, Michael J., 1957-
Provenance. Lambert, Phyllis. Inscription.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 215001
Call No.: NA44.F988.9 L4 2001
Status: Available

Location: Library main 215002
Call No.: NA44.F988.9 L4 2001
Status: Available