Author: Lewis, Michael J.
Title: Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind
Description: New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 2001. Hardcover. Red boards with black cloth spine and red lettering. Color-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering. 272 pp. with over 200 illustrations. Philadelphia architect Frank Furness produced some of the most aggressive and eye-catching buildings ever seen in the US. His energy, confidence, brashness, vulgarity and love of life vibrate in his architecture. This first biography details his abolotionist upbringing in staid Philadelphia, the transformative experience of the Civil War and its translation into swaggering architecture that met the needs for vivid commercial imagery in the Gilded Age. Includes archival views of demolished masterpieces as well as contemporary photos of buildings still standing today. VG/VG (Exlibrary copy; sticker to the dust jacket at the base of the spine, stamp on front pasted end page, sticker on front free end page, stamp on back free end page, sticker and due date card on back pasted end page) .

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