The Tender Detail

Ornament and Sentimentality in the Architecture of Louis H. Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright

Daniel E. Snyder (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-09961-6 (ISBN)

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The Tender Detail tells a story about the repression of sentimentality through architectural ornament. The protagonists are Louis H. Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, two of the most important architects and designers of ornament in American history.

Interweaving close readings of their architecture and writings with wide-ranging discussions about sexuality, gender, and philosophy, the book explores how both men worked to solve the problem of late nineteenth-century ornamentation. It suggests that their solutions, while widely different, were both intimately rooted in the tender emotions of sentimentality. Viewing ornament in this way reveals much, not only about Sullivan and Wright’s artistic intentions, but also about the role of affect, the value of beauty, and the agency and ontology of objects.

Illuminated by personal stories from their respective autobiographies, which add a level of human interest unusual in an academic work, The Tender Detail is a readable, scholarly study which sheds fresh light on Sullivan and Wright’s relationship, their work, and on the nature of ornament itself.

Daniel Snyder is an independent scholar and Principal in Daniel E. Snyder Architect, P.C.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface

1 Introduction: Frank Lloyd Wright, “sentimentalizing over the dead”

Part One: Louis H. Sullivan
2 “the plastic decorations are distinctly architectural in conception”
3 “that object he became”
4 “feminity”

Part Two: Frank Lloyd Wright
5 “no damned sentimentality either”
6 “Integral Ornament at Last”
7 “‘like a man’”

Part Three: Louis H. Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright
8 “that supreme erotic adventure of the mind”
9 Ornament “purely as such”
10 Epilogue: “when we are dead”

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	31.12.2019
Zusatzinfo	70 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	724 g
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-350-09961-9 / 1350099619
ISBN-13	978-1-350-09961-6 / 9781350099616
Zustand	Neuware