Description
Book SynopsisSanitary Commission, the quality of landscape design in England and France, the biographical circumstances that proved most important to his development as an artist, and his hopes and fears for the future of his profession.
Trade ReviewA fascinating new door stop of a book... [whose]revealing glimpses into the mind of America's greatest landscape architect take on fresh relevance. -- Blair Kamin Chicago Tribune It goes without saying-yet it must be said-the editors David Schuyler and Gregory Kaliss, with Jeffrey Schlossberg as assistant editor, continue to perform a massive task... There are indeed hoards of materials here that will be perhaps not just looted but used and cited punctiliously by scholars and modern architects. -- John Dixon Hunt Landscape Architecture Magazine The excellence of the scholarship... as well as [the] comprehensiveness is indisputable. Needless to say, those deeply interested in the works of Olmsted would be remiss indeed not to at least consider the acquisition of these volumes for their respective permanent collections. -- John Riutta Well-Read Naturalist Essential. Academic and general readers; practicing landscape professionals. Choice
Table of ContentsIllustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Editorial Policy
Short Titles Used in Citations
Biographical Directory
Chapter 1. April 1890-August 1890
Chapter 2. August 1890-December 1890
Chapter 3. December 1890-March 1891
Chapter 4. April 1891-October 1891
Chapter 5. November 1891-April 1892
Chapter 6. April 1892-August 1892
Chapter 7. September 1892-May 1983
Chapter 8. May 1983-November 1893
Chapter 9. December 1893-May 1894
Chapter 10. June 1894-November 1894
Chapter 11. December 1894-May 1895
Chapter 12. May 1985-December 1985
Appendix 1. Selected Undated Writings
Appendix 2. Chronology of Frederick Law Olmsted, 1890-1895
Appendix 3. List of Textual Alterations
Index of Plant Materials
General Index
