Lewis Mumford—SOUTH in ARCHITECTURE—1941 HC—"A scholar of cosmic reach"

Description: • For your consideration: • RARE—In HARDCOVER from 1941: An EX-Library copy of: • “THE SOUTH IN ARCHITECTURE: THE DANCY LECTURES | ALABAMA COLLEGE 1941” (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941) • BY LEWIS MUMFORD • “The central subject of the book is the South’s contribution to American architecture, not in a detailed analysis of Southern buildings, but through an interpretation of the two great architects, THOMAS JEFFERSON and HENRY HOBSON RICHARDSON, whom the South gave to America. MR. MUMFORD’s underlying theme throughout the whole discussion is the age-old problem of the general and the particular; the universal and the regional; and in working out this theme the author connects architecture with the urgent political, economic, and social problems of American democracy, as it rises to meet the challenge of totalitarian tyranny. The new estimate of the South’s contribution originally as the Dancy Foundation lectures, which LEWIS MUMFORD gave at ALABAMA STATE COLLEGE in April 1941.” —THE PUBLISHER • ABOUT THE AUTHOR:• “American architectural critic, urban planner, and historian who analyzed the effects of technology and urbanization on human societies throughout history.”—ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA • “A scholar of cosmic cultural reach and conspicuous public conscience, a distinguished critic of life, arts and letters, an unequaled observer of cities and civilizations…one of the most original minds and influential writers of our time.” —ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE, FORMER NEW YORK TIMES ARCHITECTURE CRITIC • “Best known for his ‘Sky Line’ column in THE NEW YORKER, where he served as architecture critic for over 30 years, LEWIS MUMFORD (1895-1990) is still revered as one of America's leading cultural critics and an international authority on architecture and urbanism. His provocative and polemical pieces were as well known for the emotion of his writing as for the wit and clarity of his style.”—PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS • “One of America’s greatest and least appreciated twentieth-century thinkers.” —HARPER'S MAGAZINE • “He struck me as an authentically noble man because of his unselfish determination to better the condition of life for the rest of us, far beyond the limits of architecture.”—BRENDAN GILL, THE NEW YORKER • “A prophet, a chosen man…in the line of EMERSON, WHITMAN, and WILLIAM JAMES…. When this period is over and people can see it in perspective, those who are capable of appraising it will find that the great man of this time was LEWIS MUMFORD.”—VAN WYCK BROOKS • “The last of the great humanists.”—MALCOLM COWLEY • “He is the writer of fresh possibilities, of green fields and blue skies, of the clarion call to halt the current madness and pull the world out of the fire.” —JOSEPH EPSTEIN • “An authority in the field, LEWIS MUMFORD [uses] his subject as an opportunity to show how architecture can be surveyed not as technical and esthetic alone, but as a manifestation of the language of the spirit and an aspect of self-awareness and critical understanding of the things we are living for.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS • “Part scholar, part prophet, part poet, MR. MUMFORD saw Western—and American—civilization as increasingly dominated by a machine technocracy andmentality that oppressed and dehumanized all within its reach. The megamachine, as he termed it, engendered a bogus existence–material, intellectual andspiritual—that reduced human endeavor to a series of ciphers. In his perspective, the megamachine was opening the gates to catastrophe, should mansuccumb to the myths surrounding it and worship its emanations.”—LEWIS MUMFORD OBITUARY, NEW YORK TIMES (1990) • MUMFORD QUOTES: • “Life is better than utopia.” • “It is not the apparatus of the machine that’s wrong, but the organized cult of machinery that is really evil. It is a monster that can transform man into a passive, purposeless animal.” • “Certainly it is not in extensive cosmonautic explorations of outer space, but by more intensive cultivation of the historic inner spaces of the human mind, that we shall recover the human heritage.” • “The test of maturity, for nations as well as individuals, is not the increase in power, but the increase of self-understanding, self-control, self-direction and self-transcendence. For in a mature society, man himself, and not his machines or his organizations, is the chief work of art.” • “If we are to create balanced human beings, capable of entering into world-wide co-operation with all other men of good will—and that is the supreme task of our generation, and the foundation of all its other potential achievements—we must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and esthetic values as we now give to science, to invention, to practical organization. One without the other is impotent.” • “Now the great improvement is that you control people by persuasion, by giving them a standard of consumption that no people has ever had before. Then, if they’re discontented, if their life seems a little hollow, you give them drugs and pornography.” • “The future is doubtless a different one from that which the smug and the unawakened comfortably look forward to.” • “Of [life’s] vast transformations only an infinitesimal part is visible or can be reduced to any mathematical order...that plenitude of life which even the humblest being in some degree exhibits...cannot be resolved in any mathematical equation or converted into a geometric metaphor without eliminating a large part of the relevant experience.” •• For more details, please see below.• TITLE: “THE SOUTH IN ARCHITECTURE: The Dancy Lectures • Alabama College 1941” AUTHOR: LEWIS MUMFORD TYPE: Hardcover PAGES: 147 PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Dodd, Mead & Company (New York), 1941 EDITION: First Edition *RE: The statement “First Edition” on the Copyright Page. ISBN: Pre-ISBN CONDITION of BOARDS (NO DUST JACKET): GOOD.Boards have light scuffs & smudging. Faint discoloring along edges. Corners are sharp with scuffs. Spine is browned & lightly stained with rubbed corners. moderately sharp corners. CONDITION of BOOK ITSELF: ACCEPTABLE • IMPORTANT NOTE: Ex-library copy. • Text-block edges are lightly browned & scuffed. Endpapers are deeply ghosted. Library bookplate affixed to inside cover & the text from the inside flap has been glued to the FFEP (which also has a tear at top edge). A library card pocket mars the inside cover. A catalog number has been inked onto the title page (which also has a small red stain). An occasional brown spot appears in the margin of random pages. Pages are brown from aging but also clean & bright. (NOTE: Despite the age-toning & endpaper ghosting, this book does not suffer from a musty scent.) SUMMARY: An acceptable reading copy of a rare book and a riveting author. SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned and sturdy mailer. 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Price: 26.99 USD

Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina

End Time: 2024-10-28T19:02:20.000Z

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