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Arts and Crafts Architecture : History and Heritage in New England by Maureen Meister (2014, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDartmouth College
ISBN-101611686628
ISBN-139781611686623
eBay Product ID (ePID)201614370
Product Key Features
Book TitleArts and Crafts Architecture : History and Heritage in New England
Number of Pages328 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicHistory / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), Regional, Decorative Arts
Publication Year2014
IllustratorYes
GenreDesign, Architecture, History
AuthorMaureen Meister
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight31 Oz
Item Length10.3 in
Item Width7.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2014-013798
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"For scholars of New England architecture, Meister's book is invaluable; for residents of the area, it is a wonderful guide to our physical environment." -Design New England, distributed by the Boston Globe, "Maureen Meister crafts an engaging portrait of a network of architects whose work reflects a shared ideal, rich intellectual underpinnings, respect for the past, fine craftsmanship, and carefully chosen materials. Proponents of both the Gothic and Colonial Revivals, they were equally inspired to invent new building typologies suited to a burgeoning region and a progressive era. This thematic overview is compelling, thoughtful, and delightfully readable."-Beverly K. Brandt, professor in the School of Design at Arizona State University, "Meister's fascinating look at the origins and influences of arts and crafts architecture in New England is as finely crafted and detailed as the works it explores. . . . The book is filled with fine portraits of the architects highlighted and many of the notable buildings they created, a number of which stand today. This volume should delight scholars and other academics as well as enthusiasts of American architecture and should be found in libraries with a concentration of decorative arts, architecture, and architectural history." - Library Journal, Meister's fascinating look at the origins and influences of arts and crafts architecture in New England is as finely crafted and detailed as the works it explores. . . . The book is filled with fine portraits of the architects highlighted and many of the notable buildings they created, a number of which stand today. This volume should delight scholars and other academics as well as enthusiasts of American architecture and should be found in libraries with a concentration of decorative arts, architecture, and architectural history., "American Arts and Crafts architecture was uniquely responsive to its setting, resulting in work that varied widely across the country. As Maureen Meister demonstrates in her authoritative account, the architects who led Boston's Society of Arts and Crafts created designs rooted in English and Anglo-Colonial precedents-drawing on the best of the past to address the challenges of the early twentieth century."-Jeffrey Karl Ochsner, professor of architecture, University of Washington, "For scholars of New England architecture, Meister's book is invaluab≤ for residents of the area, it is a wonderful guide to our physical environment." - Design New England, distributed by the Boston Globe, "In her portrait of a group of architects who practiced in Boston while promoting the English Arts and Crafts movement a century ago, Maureen Meister weaves sensitive descriptions of construction details and materials that convey her intimate familiarity with the subject." -Architecture Boston, "This useful illustrated guide to the movement that flowered from 1890 to 1920 puts into context Radcliffe's Fay House, the McLean Hospital campus, Phillips Brooks House, and many iconic homes." -Harvard Magazine, "In her portrait of a group of architects who practiced in Boston while promoting the English Arts and Crafts movement a century ago, Maureen Meister weaves sensitive descriptions of construction details and materials that convey her intimate familiarity with the subject." - Architecture Boston, "Meister's fascinating look at the origins and influences of arts and crafts architecture in New England is as finely crafted and detailed as the works it explores. . . . The book is filled with fine portraits of the architects highlighted and many of the notable buildings they created, a number of which stand today. This volume should delight scholars and other academics as well as enthusiasts of American architecture and should be found in libraries with a concentration of decorative arts, architecture, and architectural history." -Library Journal, "Finally, the architecture of the Arts and Crafts years in Boston has been given the serious study it so richly deserves. The period 'produced an extraordinary flowering of architecture in New England,' writes Maureen Meister in a statement that could not have been taken seriously a generation or two ago. Her broad and deep revisionist discussion substantiates the truth of that assertion, and plugs a great hole in the published history of American architecture."-James F. O'Gorman, professor emeritus of the history of American art, Wellesley College, In her portrait of a group of architects who practiced in Boston while promoting the English Arts and Crafts movement a century ago, Maureen Meister weaves sensitive descriptions of construction details and materials that convey her intimate familiarity with the subject., "This useful illustrated guide to the movement that flowered from 1890 to 1920 puts into context Radcliffe's Fay House, the McLean Hospital campus, Phillips Brooks House, and many iconic homes." - Harvard Magazine, This useful illustrated guide to the movement that flowered from 1890 to 1920 puts into context Radcliffe's Fay House, the McLean Hospital campus, Phillips Brooks House, and many iconic homes., For scholars of New England architecture, Meister's book is invaluable; for residents of the area, it is a wonderful guide to our physical environment.
Dewey Decimal720.974/09034
Table Of ContentList of Illustrations * Preface * Introduction: Grappling with Modernity * Dramatis Personae: Twelve Architect-Leaders * Arts and Crafts Advocates, Arts and Crafts Architects * An Intellectual Stew: Emerson, Norton, Brandeis * An Arts and Crafts Movement Emerges in New England * Looking Backward: From Romanesque to Gothic Revival * Looking Backward: Colonial Revival as Arts and Crafts * Looking Forward: Building for the Twentieth Century * Epilogue: Confronting Modernism * Notes * Illustration Credits * Index
SynopsisThe first study of the origins and multiple expressions of New England's Arts and Crafts architecture, This book offers the first full-scale examination of the architecture associated with the Arts and Crafts movement that spread throughout New England at the turn of the twentieth century. Although interest in the Arts and Crafts movement has grown since the 1970s, the literature on New England has focused on craft production. Meister traces the history of the movement from its origins in mid-nineteenth-century England to its arrival in the United States and describes how Boston architects including H. H. Richardson embraced its tenets in the 1870s and 1880s. She then turns to the next generation of designers, examining buildings by twelve of the region's most prominent architects, eleven men and a woman, who assumed leadership roles in the Society of Arts and Crafts, founded in Boston in 1897. Among them are Ralph Adams Cram, Lois Lilley Howe, Charles Maginnis, and H. Langford Warren. They promoted designs based on historical precedent and the region's heritage while encouraging well-executed ornament. Meister also discusses revered cultural personalities who influenced the architects, notably Ralph Waldo Emerson and art historian Charles Eliot Norton, as well as contemporaries who shared their concerns, such as Louis Brandeis. Conservative though the architects were in the styles they favored, they also were forward-looking, blending Arts and Crafts values with Progressive Era idealism. Open to new materials and building types, they made lasting contributions, with many of their designs now landmarks honored in cities and towns across New England.
LC Classification NumberNA715.M45 2014
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