Frederick Law Olmsted: The Passion of a Public Artist (American Social Experience)
(Part of the The American Social Experience Series Series)
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Working from Olmsted's own personal and professional writings, Melvin Kalfus seeks to establish in this, the first biography of Olmstead to appear in a decade and a half, the connections between the many facets of Olmstead's life and work. Kalfus shows how Olmsted's childhood afflictions provided him with the inner sources of his creative imagination, provided the symbolism that was the linguistic and visual vocabulary employed in his work, fired his ambition, and led him so obsessively to seek the world's esteem through his works. Finally, Kalfus argues that Olmsted's individual psychodynamics fitted him uniquely to the role of the creative professional in public life-- the agent (or "delegate") for his society's needs-- needs that were unspoken as well as spoken.
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