grain elevator
A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
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grain elevator. Silo with mechanical lifting machinery for the storage of grain. Large r.c. elevators were erected in the USA, and these unlikely structures were regarded as exemplary by certain architects such as
Mendelsohn (who made many sketches of them) and
Gropius (who claimed to find them as impressive as Ancient Egyptian architecture).
Bibliography
R. Banham (1976);
Gropius (1913);
Mahar-Keplinger (1993);
Müller-Wülckow (1929);
Torbert (1958)
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ELIE NADELMAN'S MODERNIST SCULPTURE
News Wire article from: United Press International; 6/24/2003; 700+ words
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Elie Nadelman's modernist sculpture.
News Wire article from: United Press International; 6/24/2003; 700+ words
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Magazine article from: New Criterion; 5/1/2003; ; 700+ words
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Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 4/5/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...overly decorous retrospective of Elie Nadelman, the great Polish- born American...largest retrospective yet devoted to Nadelman's suavely economical heads...persuasive.The exhibition title, ''Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life...
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Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 10/1/1994; ; 700+ words
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Magazine article from: Art Business News; 11/1/2001; 642 words
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Elie Nadelman stood convention on its head.(The Home Forum)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 3/8/2002; 556 words
; ...Christopher Andreae THE sculpture of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946) light-heartedly...bow. Such bows were virtually a Nadelman signature, appearing on many of...essay for the recent traveling Nadelman exhibition organized by the American...
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Elie Nadelman
Magazine article from: Artforum; 1/1/2003; ; 347 words
; ...urbanity disguised as biboveralls folkiness, it's Elie Nadelman (T882-T946). "Sophistication and primitivism collide...Primitivism, ha! There isn't a scintilla of it in Nadelman's deceptively simplified figures sculpted with right...
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"Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life"
Newspaper article from: Polish-American Journal; 8/31/2003; ; 700+ words
; Szafran, Denice Polish-American Journal 08-31-2003 Polish-born American artist Elie Nadelman's sculptures were on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue, at 75th Street, New York, through...
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ELIE NADELMAN MARCH 27-JULY 20
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/23/2003; ; 362 words
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Elie Nadelman
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Elie Nadelman Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the Polish-American sculptor and graphic artist, evolved a highly distinctive sculptural style by abstracting human forms and stressing the curvilinear interplay of contours. Elie Nadelman, born...
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Nadelman, Elie
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
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Lincoln Kirstein
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...dance and art criticism; and several works on modern figurative artists, including the definitive biography of Elie Nadelman (1973) and two studies of Pavel Tchelitchew (1947, 1994). In the U.S. army during and after World War II...
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Sculpture
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...half of the twentieth century. Paul Manship (1885–1966), William Zorach (1887–1966), Elie Nadelman (1882–1946), and Hugo Robus (1885–1966) rendered figurative and narrative works in a stylized...
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