Culture and Democracy The Struggle for Form in Society and Architecture in Chicago and The Middle West During the Life and
by Hugh Dalziel Duncan
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This work by the late and great sociologist Hugh Dalziel Duncan, paints the great panorama of the Middle West, where egalitarianism is the most cherished value, and money is the most important vehicle of life. How art finds a place in this society is shown in the specific struggle between the architects, businessmen, unionists, and educators of Chicago. Into such specifics Duncan reveals the place of supposedly abstract theories developed by John Dewey, George Herbert Mead, Thorstein Veblen, and above all, Louis H. Sullivan, whose school of architecture presents both a new form of physical design and a new order of society.
The rise, seeming defeat, and final triumph of Sullivan's principles of order in architecture are related to his social and aesthetic theories of form in society. In democratic society, all individuals must be capable of art, just as all individuals share in art as experience. Sullivan's description of the development within the individual of the idea of architecture is treated as an allegory of such development in the spirit of democratic values. His life is offered as a parable of the problem facing American artists as they attempt to root art in democratic culture. In Sullivan's words: "The critical study of architecture becomes not merely the direct study of art, but in extenso, a study of the social conditions producing it. The study of a newly shaping type of civilization. By this light, the study of architecture becomes naturally and logically a branch of social science. . . ."
Duncan's exceptional volume, written with grace and clarity, registers the achievements of this Chicago School, showing how culture and democracy reached a special moment of consensus with the money-based economy of our time.
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- Culture and Democracy The Struggle for Form in Society and Architecture in Chicago and The Middle West During the Life and
- Author
- Hugh Dalziel Duncan
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- Used - Very Good
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- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0887387462
- ISBN 13
- 9780887387463
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- Transaction Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Brunswick, Nj
- Date Published
- January 1, 1989
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