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 | #708205 in Books |  2008-12-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  10.40 x1.20 x9.00l,3.85 | File type: PDF | 352 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Suplerlative study of the architectural aspirations of the fin de siecle upper class|By David Arbogast|I expected this to be a coffee-table book, but was very pleasantly surprised that it is actually an excellent study of the architectural aspirations of high society at the end of the nineteenth century. The text, although scholarly, was highly readable and the illustrations w|About the Author|Wayne Craven is the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Professor of Art History, Emeritus, at the University of Delaware. He is the author of American Art: History and Culture and Stanford White

A lavishly illustrated history of the opulent art and architecture of the Gilded Age.

The Gilded Age (1865–1918) saw the sudden rise of America's first High Society, including such prominent families as the Astors, Whitneys, and Vanderbilts. As an aristocracy based on fortunes recently acquired, these families endeavored to live like Europe's blue-blooded nobility, shedding Puritan restraint as they joyously flaunted their new wealth―espec...

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