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Sullivanesque

Urban Architecture and Ornamentation

By: Ronald E. Schmitt

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Sullivanesque

Urban Architecture and Ornamentation

By: Ronald E. Schmitt

Sullivanesque offers a visual and historical tour of a unique but often overlooked facet of modern American architecture derived from Louis Sullivan.Highly regarded in architecture for inspiring the Chicago School and the Prairie School, Sullivan was an unwilling instigator of the method of facade composition--later influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright, William Gray Purcell, and George G. Elmslie--that came to be known as Sullivanesque. Decorative enhancements with botanical and animal themes, Sullivan's distinctive ornamentation mitigated the hard geometries of the large buildings he designed, coinciding with his "form follows function" aesthetic.Sullivan's designs offered solutions to problems presented by new types and scales of buildings. Widely popular, they were also widely copied, and the style proliferated due to a number of Chicago-based interests, including the Radford Architectural Company and several decorative plaster and terra-cotta companies. Stock replicas of Sullivan's designs manufactured by the Midland Terra Cotta Company and others gave distinction and focus to utilitarian buildings in Chicago's commercial strips and other confined areas, such as the downtown districts of smaller towns. Mass-produced Sullivanesque terra cotta endured as a result of its combined economic and aesthetic appeal, blending the sophistication of high architectural art with the pragmatic functionality of building design.Masterfully framed by the author's photographs of Sullivanesque buildings in Chicago and throughout the Midwest, Ronald E. Schmitt's in-depth exploration of the Sullivanesque tells the story of its evolution from Sullivan's intellectual and aesthetic foundations to its place as a form of commercial vernacular. The book also includes an inventory of Sullivanesque buildings.Honorable Mention recipient of the 2002 PSP Awards for Excellence in Professional/Scholarly Publishing

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University of Illinois Press

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0252056280

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9780252056284

Red Flag Wounded

By: Ronald Suny

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Red Flag Wounded

By: Ronald Suny

Tracking the degeneration of the Russian Revolution Red Flag Wounded brings together essays covering the controversies and debates over the fraught history of the Soviet Union from the revolution to its disintegration. Those monumental years were marked not only by violence, mass killing, and the brutal overturning of a peasant society but also by the modernisation and industrialisation of the largest country in the world, the victory over fascism, and the slow recovery of society after the nightmare of Stalinism. Ronald Grigor Suny is one of the most prominent experts on the revolution, the fate of the non-Russian peoples of the Soviet empire, and the twists and turns of Western historiography of the Soviet experience. As a biographer of Stalin and a long-time commentator on Russian and Soviet affairs, he brings novel insights to a history that has been misunderstood and deliberately distorted in the public sphere. For a fresh look at a story that affects our world today, this is the place to begin.

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Verso Books

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1788730747

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9781788730747

Wine Tasting

A Professional Handbook

By: Ronald S. Jackson

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Wine Tasting

A Professional Handbook

By: Ronald S. Jackson

Wine Tasting: A Professional Handbook, Fourth Edition presents the latest information behind tasting, including insights on physiological, psychological and physicochemical limitations associated with sensory evaluation. The book's author notes how techniques may guide in achieving improved wine quality and adjusting production procedures to match consumer preferences, occupational hazards of professional wine tasters, and the latest information on types of wine, vineyard and winery sources of quality, and the principles of food and wine combination. Fully updated, this new edition includes coverage of the statistical aspect of wine tasting, including multiple examples to demonstrate the science of wine characteristic measurement and analysis. With its inclusion of illustrative data and testing technique descriptions, the book is ideal for both those who train members of tasting panels, those involved in designing wine tastings, and the connoisseur seeking to maximize their perception and appreciation of wine through a clear and applicable understanding of the wine tasting experience. - Presents worked examples of complex statistics applied to wine tasting - Provides a flow chart of wine tasting steps and production procedures, incorporating course and appreciation practices - Discusses various types, purposes and organization of wine tastings - Cautions about design errors that could invalidate data interpretation - Explains practical details on wine storage and the problems that can occur, both during and following bottle opening

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Elsevier

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0323984509

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9780323984508

Sullivanesque

Urban Architecture and Ornamentation

By: Ronald E. Schmitt

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Urban Architecture and Ornamentation

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Monuments and Memorials

A Personal View

By: Ronald Schmitt

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Monuments and Memorials

A Personal View

By: Ronald Schmitt

This book overviews monuments and memorials built for a physical context. These tangible memorials include statues, buildings, murals, fountains, parks and gardens. The book includes many of the most important monuments and memorials in the United States. Some monuments toppled by demonstrators or removed by state or local governments in 2020 are among works documented. Furthermore, some memorials are being reviewed by governmental bodies and may be removed or cancelled. Some of these threatened monuments appear in this publication. This book has 160 pages of content with 338 color photographs and 24 drawings.

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1733596542

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Images of Midwestern Architecture

Downtown Chicago

By: Ronald E. Schmitt

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Images of Midwestern Architecture

Downtown Chicago

By: Ronald E. Schmitt

The author's color photographs record important works of architecture in Downtown Chicago. Historical and contemporary buildings in the Loop, South Loop and Near North Side are represented. This is a 7-inch by 7-inch paperback book with 156 pages and 220 color photographs.

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0988372010

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9780988372016

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