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Apostle of Taste

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September, 2015

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978-1-62534-168-6

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24.95

David Schuyler is Arthur & Katherine Shadek Professor of American Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. He is author of Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909; The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America; and A City Transformed: Redevelopment, Race, and Suburbanization in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1940–1980. He has served as coeditor of several volumes of the Frederick Law Olmsted Papers.

Schuyler, David.
Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815–1852
A new edition of the biography of the nineteenth century’s most influential landscape designer

Wed, 09/30/2015

"The vast amount of visual evidence combines with the material and personal history of Downing to make Apostle of Taste a must for scholars of architectural and landscape history."—Pennsylvania History

"Schuyler’s excellent study of Downing’s writing and career, complete with excellent illustrations and an extensive, annotated bibliography, will serve as one major starting point for future studies of Downing."—Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture

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