Crystal and arabesque : Claude Bragdon, ornament, and modern architecture

• Main Author: Massey, Jonathan, 1969- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2009
• Subjects: Bragdon, Claude Fayette, > 1866-1946; architekti > Spojené státy americké; architektonická dekorace; architects > United States; architectural decoration and ornament; studie; studies
• ISBN: 9780822943624 0-8229-4362-X
• Physical Description: ix, 336 s. : il. (některé barev.), mapy ; 26 cm

Table of Contents:

• Modernism, ornament, reform
• Reviving taste
• Nature's geometry
• Rochester reforms
• The fourth dimension
• The language of ornament
• Staging democracy
• Building a new public
• Stage and screen
• Ornament and organization