Edith Wharton at Home: Life at the Mount
At once a leader and a recorder of the glamorous Gilded Age society, Edith Wharton stands at the pinnacle of turn of the twentieth century American literature and social history. The Mount, her summer "cottage" in the Berkshires, was essential to her success, and the story of her life there is filled with gatherings of literary figures and artists
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| ISBN/EAN | 9781580933285 |
| Auteur | Richard Guy Wilson |
| Uitgever | Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V. |
| Taal | Engels |
| Uitvoering | Gebonden in harde band |
| Pagina's | 188 |
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Richard Guy Wilson is Commonwealth Professor of Architectural History at the University of Virginia and a foremost authority on the architecture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is the author of more than twenty books, most recently The Colonial Revival House and Harbor Hill: Portrait of a House . Pauline C. Metcalf is a noted architecture and design historian, as well as the chairman of The Mount’s Interior Design Committee. She is the author of Ogden Codman and The Decoration of Houses and Syrie Maugham . John Arthur is a writer, independent curator, and photographer. Among his publications are Spirit of Place: Contemporary Landscape Painting & the American Tradition , Richard Estes: Painting and Prints , American Realism & Figurative Painting , Green Woods & Crystal Waters , and Theophilus Brown: Paintings, Drawings, and Collages . He is currently working on a monograph on Bernard Maybeck.