Lewis Mumford, The Brown Decades: A Study of the Arts in America, 1865-1895 (1931; Dover Pubns, 1971) Art criticism raised to the level of art. An innovative interpretation of styles and currents in architecture, city design, painting, literature, and philosophy, in which Mumford uses the metaphor of earth tones, for example, to analyze Walt Whitman's poetry and Henry Hobson Richardson's architecture. MORE: Urban Philosopher: A Walking Tour of Lewis Mumford, Harper's, 1999 Amazon |
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