Claude Bragdon and the Beautiful Necessity - Softcover

Eugenia Victoria Ellis; Andrea Reithmayr

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933360437 ISBN 13: 9781933360430

Publisher: RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2010

Synopsis

Claude Bragdon (1866-1946) was a first-generation modernist architect, as well as an illustrator, critic, theorist and theater designer. Bragdon practiced architecture in Rochester, New York throughout the Progressive Era. Although his masterpiece, the New York Central Railroad Station, was demolished in the 1960s-70s, the First Universalist Church, the Bevier Memorial Building, the Peterborough Bridge near Toronto, and nearly 100 residences remain today. A prolific and influential writer, Bragdon published more than twenty books and hundreds of articles. He was nationally known for his graphic art, his writing on the fourth dimension, his Song & Light Festivals of 1915-1918, and his role in theater's New Stagecraft. He had technical and artistic expertise in many disciplines, making it difficult to categorize his work into a specific stylistic trend. Bragdon's work as an early modernist is important both in its own right and as a key to other 20th Century architects work. The book includes a complete bibliography of Bragdon's published work, a timeline and an index. Contributors: Eugenia V. Ellis, Paul Emmons, Marcia Feuerstein, Marie Frank, Jean France, Joscelyn Godwin, Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Christina Malathouni, Jonathan Massey, Mary Nixon, Joan Ockman, Andrea Reithmayr and Richard Guy Wilson.

About this edition

• Publisher: RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1933360437
• ISBN 13: 9781933360430
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240