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Will the Real H.H. Richardson Please Rise? |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: John Braeman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 1,980 Words, 12,793 Characters |
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H.H. RICHARDSON
Architectural Forms for an American Society
James F. O'Gorman
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987
171 pp., $24.95
The relationship between an artist and his time is complex. Whatever the degree of his individual genius, he is still a product of a given cultural environment. And he must appeal in some fashion to the values and tastes of his contemporaries to gain acceptance.
The need for such acceptance is especially pressing for the architect. His lifeblood is commissions involving substantial dollars-and-cents investments. [Much of the contemporary theoretical discussion of architectural history has a strongly neo-Marxist tone.] Perhaps most influential has been the thesis advanced by the French urban sociologist Henri Lefebvre in his La pr...
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...dson. But in broad terms at least, O'Gorman makes a strong case for Richardson's having had a positive impact upon Wright's development. The point is hardly new. Lewis Mumford underlined the link more than half-a-century ago. He also perceived how Richardson remained a transitional figure--half Victorian, half proto-modern--who "beheld the Promised Land . . . but . . . did not enter it."
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