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Author: Chris Dimattei Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press ISBN: 9781621900900 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages :
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The work of prominent and prolific architect George F. Barber (1854-1915) can be found across North America. Virtually every major town has a residence designed by the Knoxville-based architect, who created and sold house plans through his innovative mail-order business. Despite his widespread success, little has been written about Barber. In Architectural Ragtime, Michael D. Alcorn and Christopher R. DiMattei provide an unprecedented and comprehensive analysis of Barber and his oeuvre, which is enhanced by extensive contemporary documentation of these historic homes. This study is the first to focus solely on the accomplishments of Barber's business and its influence on the development of architectural design as a professional service rather than as a product. It explores Barber's philosophy that good architectural design should be available and affordable to anyone, even those with the means to build only the most modest of homes. By investigating the remarkable versatility and range of Barber's style and enterprise, this book provides a new perspective on the overall look and impact his houses had on North America's housing legacy. It adds to the mounting evidence that the mail-order plan and kit-house suppliers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were major drivers of the character and improved quality of American neighborhoods. The book examines the development of Barber's artistic taste and the basic architectural forms that he employed to create it. The best of his work qualifies as Queen Anne Victorian, although his extensive repertoire included Romanesque- and Colonial Renaissance-style residences as well. As a businessman, Barber worked to meet client demands, yet he managed to maintain consistently high artistic standards. Replete with hundreds of photographs of Barber dwellings and illustrations that are both revealing and instructive, this volume is a valuable tool for local historians and preservationists seeking to identify, document and evaluate the historic appearance or significance of Victorian-era architecture in general and Barber buildings in particular. Students and scholars of history and architecture as well as historic home enthusiasts will find this an important resource that will enhance their understanding and appreciation of this influential architect.
Author: Chris Dimattei Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press ISBN: 9781621900900 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
The work of prominent and prolific architect George F. Barber (1854-1915) can be found across North America. Virtually every major town has a residence designed by the Knoxville-based architect, who created and sold house plans through his innovative mail-order business. Despite his widespread success, little has been written about Barber. In Architectural Ragtime, Michael D. Alcorn and Christopher R. DiMattei provide an unprecedented and comprehensive analysis of Barber and his oeuvre, which is enhanced by extensive contemporary documentation of these historic homes. This study is the first to focus solely on the accomplishments of Barber's business and its influence on the development of architectural design as a professional service rather than as a product. It explores Barber's philosophy that good architectural design should be available and affordable to anyone, even those with the means to build only the most modest of homes. By investigating the remarkable versatility and range of Barber's style and enterprise, this book provides a new perspective on the overall look and impact his houses had on North America's housing legacy. It adds to the mounting evidence that the mail-order plan and kit-house suppliers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were major drivers of the character and improved quality of American neighborhoods. The book examines the development of Barber's artistic taste and the basic architectural forms that he employed to create it. The best of his work qualifies as Queen Anne Victorian, although his extensive repertoire included Romanesque- and Colonial Renaissance-style residences as well. As a businessman, Barber worked to meet client demands, yet he managed to maintain consistently high artistic standards. Replete with hundreds of photographs of Barber dwellings and illustrations that are both revealing and instructive, this volume is a valuable tool for local historians and preservationists seeking to identify, document and evaluate the historic appearance or significance of Victorian-era architecture in general and Barber buildings in particular. Students and scholars of history and architecture as well as historic home enthusiasts will find this an important resource that will enhance their understanding and appreciation of this influential architect.
Author: Michael D. Alcorn Publisher: Crd Publications ISBN: 9780999230909 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 426
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An overview of the architectural designs of the Geo. F. Barber & Co., with accompanying plans and illustrations. Also includes biographical information.
Author: E.L. Doctorow Publisher: Random House ISBN: 0307762947 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 252
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War. The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disappears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata slip in and out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family and other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler and a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.
Author: David Dutkanicz Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486171671 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 50
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These rollicking, easy-to-play ragtime favorites include "Maple Leaf Rag," "The Entertainer," "Tiger Rag," and other melodies by such favorites as Scott Joplin, James Scott, Joseph Lamb, and Eubie Blake. All songs available as downloadable MP3s.
Author: Joshua Comaroff Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 1452970254 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 376
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A new edition of this extensive visual analysis of horror tropes and their architectural analogues Horror in Architecture presents an unflinching look at how horror genre tropes manifest in the built environment. Spanning the realms of art, design, literature, and film, this newly revised and expanded edition compiles examples from all areas of popular culture to form a visual anthology of the architectural uncanny. Rooted in the Romantic and Gothic treatment of horror as a serious aesthetic category, Horror in Architecture establishes incisive links between contemporary horror media and its parallel traits found in various architectural designs. Through chapters dedicated to distorted and monstrous buildings, abandoned spaces, extremes of scale, and other structural peculiarities, and featuring new essays on insurgent natures, blobs, and architectural puppets, this volume brings together diverse architectural anomalies and shows how their unsettling effects deepen our fascination with the unreal. Intended for both horror fans and students of visual culture, Horror in Architecture turns a unique lens on the relationship between the human body and the artificial landscapes it inhabits. Extensively illustrated with photographs, film stills, and diagrams, this book retrieves horror from the cultural fringes and demonstrates how its attributes permeate the modern condition and the material world.
Author: Donald Leslie Johnson Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN: 9781409428176 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 262
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The book provides a unique, in-depth and critical analysis of Wright's concrete block houses, set within their historical, biographical and theoretical contexts. In particular, it shows the full impact upon Wright of his contemporaries, architects Irving Gill and Rudolph Schindler. In doing so, it allows a full appreciation of Wright's, Gill's and Schindler's buildings beyond their architectonic and experiential qualities.
Author: Edward A. Berlin Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195356462 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 349
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In 1974, the academy award-winning film The Sting brought back the music of Scott Joplin, a black ragtime composer who died in 1917. Led by The Entertainer, one of the most popular pieces of the mid-1970s, a revival of his music resulted in events unprecedented in American musical history. Never before had any composer's music been so acclaimed by both the popular and classical music worlds. While reaching a "Top Ten" position in the pop charts, Joplin's music was also being performed in classical recitals and setting new heights for sales of classical records. His opera Treemonisha was performed both in opera houses and on Broadway. Destined to be the definitive work on the man and his music, King of Ragtime is written by Edward A. Berlin. A renowned authority on Joplin and the author of the acclaimed and widely cited Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History, Berlin redefines the Scott Joplin biography. Using the tools of a trained musicologist, he has uncovered a vast amount of new information about Joplin. His biography truly documents the story of the composer, replacing the myths and unsupported anecdotes of previous histories. He shows how Joplin's opera Treemonisha was a tribute to the woman he loved, a woman other biographers never even mentioned. Berlin also reveals that Joplin was an associate of Irving Berlin, and that he accused Berlin of stealing his music to compose Alexander's Ragtime Band in 1911. Berlin paints a vivid picture of the ragtime years, placing Scott Joplin's story in its historical context. The composer emerges as a representative of the first post-Civil War generation of African Americans, of the men and women who found in the world of entertainment a way out of poverty and lowly social status. King of Ragtime recreates the excitement of these pioneers, who dreamed of greatness as they sought to expand the limits society placed upon their race.
Author: Chris Dimattei
Author: Chris Dimattei
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