Bøger af Kerry Dean Carso

Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as "e;follies,"e; from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration in 1876. In a period of increasing nationalism, follies-such as temples, summerhouses, towers, and ruins-brought a range of European architectural styles to the United States. By imprinting the land with symbols of European culture, landscape gardeners brought their idea of civilization to the American wilderness.Kerry Dean Carso's interdisciplinary approach in Follies in America examines both buildings and their counterparts in literature and art, demonstrating that follies provide a window into major themes in nineteenth-century American culture, including tensions between Jeffersonian agrarianism and urban life, the ascendancy of middle-class tourism, and gentility and social class aspirations.

Examines Steven Holl's intricate and distinctive process of making architecture through approximately one hundred models, related sketches and other studies created for nine recent projects.

American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature analyses the impact British Gothic novels and historical romances had on American art and architecture in the Romantic era. Key figures include Thomas Jefferson, Washington Allston, Alexander Jackson Davis, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Thomas Cole, Edwin Forrest and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne articulated the subject of this book when he wrote that he could understand Sir Walter Scott's romances better after viewing Scott's Gothic Revival house Abbotsford, and he understood the house better for having read the romances. This study investigates this symbiotic relationship between the arts and Gothic literature to reveal new interpretative possibilities.ContentsIntroductionChapter One. Gothic Monticello: Thomas Jefferson's Garden NarrativesChapter Two. 'Banditti Mania': The Gothic Haunting of Washington Allston Chapter Three. 'Arranging the Trap Doors': The Gothic Revival Castles of Alexander Jackson DavisChapter Four. Old Dwellings Transmogrified: The Homes of James Fenimore Cooper and Washington IrvingChapter Five. Gothic Castles in the Landscape: Thomas Cole, Sir Walter Scott And the Hudson River School of PaintingChapter Six. The Theatrical Spectacle of Medieval Revival: Edwin Forrest's Fonthill CastleConclusion. 'Clap It Into a Romance:' Nathaniel Hawthorne's Gothic Houses