Wolfe praised architects like Louis Sullivan who, from the late 19th century to his death in 1924, built a number of ornate buildings. Wolfe criticizes the tendencies of modern architecture to avoid any external ornamentation. O beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, has there ever been another place on earth where so many people of wealth and power have paid for and put up with so much architecture they detested as within thy blessed borders today? Wolfe bluntly lays out his thesis in the introduction to From Bauhaus to Our House with a riff on the patriotic song 'America the Beautiful'

From Bauhaus to Our House was excerpted in Harper's magazine and published by Wolfe's long-time publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1981. Undeterred by the hostile critical response to The Painted Word, and perhaps even encouraged by the stir the book made, Wolfe set about writing a critique of modern architecture.

Art critics were, in turn, highly critical of Wolfe's book, arguing that he was a philistine who knew nothing of what he wrote.Īfter The Painted Word, Wolfe published a collection of his essays, Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine (1976), and his history of the earliest years of the space program, The Right Stuff (1979). OL1925471W Page_number_confidence 85.98 Pages 166 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200801082847 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 569 Scandate 20200708115602 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780330326094 Tts_version 4.In 1975 Wolfe made his first foray into art criticism with The Painted Word, in which he argued that art theory had become too pervasive because the art world was controlled by a small elitist network of wealthy collectors, dealers and critics. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:44:32 Boxid IA1884024 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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