Frederick Law Olmstead: The Passion of a Public Artist

by Melvin Kalfus

Book Overview

Frederick Law Olmsted's career as a landscape architect was long and varied. The best-known fruits of that career were surely the great urban parks: Central Park in Manhattan, Prospect Park in Brooklyn, Franklin Park in Boston. But most of this took place after the Civil War. Prior to 1865, Olmsted had built a public reputation as an author and journalist (producing three historically important books on slavery and the antebellum South) and as General...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814746187
• ISBN13: 9780814746189
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"