Naturalized nationalism : a Ruskinian discourse on the search for an American style of architecture

Author

Weingarden, Lauren S.

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Winterthur portfolio. 1989, Num. 1, Vol. 24, p. 43-68, 34 ill.

ISSN

0084-0416

Abstract (en)

Discusses Louis Sullivan's artistic procedures for creating a new American architectural style grounded in nature and the forces that shape it. Concludes that, when Sullivan adapted the symbolic forms and functions of Medieval architecture to the modern skyscraper and an innovative style of ornament, he reinfused architecture with a spiritual meaning and, in so doing, renewed a transcendentalist reading of Ruskin's texts.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Architecture -- United States
• Sullivan, Louis Henri, 1856-1924
• Architecture
• United States
• 1800-2000
• Style
• Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
• Influence
• Nationalism
• Symbolism
• Medieval
• Ornament
• Spiritualism
• Naturalism
• Sources

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Architecture -- États-Unis
• Sullivan, Louis Henri, 1856-1924
• Architecture
• Etats-Unis
• 1800-2000
• Style
• Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
• Influence
• Nationalisme
• Symbolisme
• Moyen Age
• Ornement
• Spiritisme
• Naturalisme
• Sources

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19910101-00447018

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