Barns (Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks) - Hardcover

Vlach, John Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393730867 ISBN 13: 9780393730869

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003

Synopsis

A far-reaching visual survey of farm buildings across the United States, tracing their historical and regional influences.

The first in the Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks series, Barns presents a broad, fresh, and newly informed visual analysis of one of America's fundamental building types. In a nation founded upon agrarian principles, with a cultural and physical landscape as vast as it is diverse, the barn has long been recognized as an American icon. Drawn from the vast holdings of the Library of Congress, nearly 1,000 illustrations provide a tour of barns across the United States, from New England to the Great Lakes to the South, Midwest, and Far West.

Barns traces geographical and chronological continuities of type, design, and construction, and Dutch, German, French and Spanish influence. Captions identify each document and building, and all images are included on a CD-ROM with a link to the Library’s high-resolution files.

Barns is the first comprehensive visual resource of its kind, an invaluable tool for architects, historians, students, and all those who love barns.

About this title

About the Author:

John Michael Vlach is professor of American Studies at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Review:

“A treasury of fabulous photographs...being a comprehensive and unique visual resource, Barns will be invaluable to students, educators, researchers, historians, and lovers of barns.”
- R. P. Meden, Choice

“[A] tour de force...History and architecture buffs and scholars alike will valuable information in this book.”
- Martha McDonald, Clem Labine's Period Homes

“A work that exceeds the expectations of the most demanding historians of American rural studies...throughly researched from an impeccable list of sources and interpreted in a lively style that engages both the academic and the casual reader.”
- Bright Eastman, TDSR

“Any barn enthusiast will be fascinated by its depth and breadth.”
- This Old House

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0393730867
• ISBN 13: 9780393730869
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400