The brown decades

By Lewis Mumford

Subjects: Architecture, Art, Juvenile literature, Architecture, united states, American Art, Romantismo (Arte), Art, american, Civilization, United states, civilization, 1865-1918, Modern Art, History, Arte (Estados Unidos)

Description: A picture of the "buried renaissance" of the post-Civil War period, and the founding of modern architecture (Sullivan, Richardson, Root, Roebllng), landscape development (Marsh, Olmstead, Eliot), and the graphic arts (Homer, Eakins, Ryder). 2nd revised, enlarged edition. Bibliography. 12 illustrations,