Main entry:

Miller, Ross.

Title & Author:

American apocalypse : the great fire and the myth of Chicago / Ross Miller.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1990]
©1990

Description:

ix, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-272) and index.
Introduction -- The Chicago fire: the making of a legend -- Reluctant modernism: the past as present -- Derrick time: architecture, memory, and the poetics of ruin -- The fire as image: architecture and the problem of loss -- The shanty and the skyscraper -- Wright's piano: imagining the new Chicago -- Chicago black and white: the court, the university, the Midway, and the street.

Summary:

Asks why the Chicago Fire is emblematic, how it achieved mythic proportions, and how modern myths are created.

ISBN:

0226525996 (alk. paper)
9780226525990 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture Mutilation, defacement, etc. Illinois Chicago.
Architecture Conservation and restoration Illinois Chicago.
Architecture Illinois Chicago History.
Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871.
Architecture Conservation et restauration Illinois Chicago.
Architecture Illinois Chicago 19e siècle.
Architecture Mutilation Illinois Chicago.
Architecture Illinois Chicago Histoire.
Architecture
Architecture Conservation and restoration
Architecture Mutilation, defacement, etc.
Buildings
Brandkatastrophe
Wiederaufbau
Branden.
Rampen.
Chicago (Ill.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Chicago (Ill.) Constructions.
Chicago (Ill.) Incendie, 1871.
Chicago, Ill. Architektur.
Chicago, Ill. Städtebau.
Illinois Chicago
Chicago, Ill.
Architecture History
Illinois

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 52836
Call No.: ID:90-B1649
Status: Available