Constructing modernism : Berenice Abbott and Henry-Russell Hitchcock : a re-creation of the 1934 exhibition The urban vernacular of the thirties, forties and fifties : American cities before the Civil War
Constructing modernism : Berenice Abbott and Henry-Russell Hitchcock : a re-creation of the 1934 exhibition The urban vernacular of the thirties, forties and fifties : American cities before the Civil War. 1993, 64 p., ill.; bibliogr. ref.
Publisher
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT (usa)
Publication country
United States
Abstract
(en)
In the summer of 1934, Wesleyan professor Henry-Russell Hitchcock and photographer Berenice Abbott traveled throughout the American East Coast to photograph pre-Civil War architecture. From the resulting photographs, Hitchcock selected a group of 50 for American cities before the Civil War. This exhibition was one of eight organized by Hitchcock 1933-1936 as the Wesleyan University Architectural Exhibitions; Hitchcock envisioned that these exhibitions would travel indefinitely to museums and universities. American cities was in fact shown at several venues 1934-1938, including Wesleyan's Olin Library in June 1935. It has remained intact in the Davison Art Center, as is it was first prepared for travel, for 49 years. A transcript of Hitchcock's 1934 catalogue text is appended.
Exhibition
28 Oct-10 Dec 1993 ; Wesleyan University, Davison Art Center ; Middletown (CT, USA) ; United States
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