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Angels in the Architecture: A Photographic Elegy to an American Asylum Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Johnson, Heidi (Author), Tomes, Nancy (Introduction by)

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 ISBN: 0814332129     ISBN-13: 9780814332122
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
OUR PRICE: $33.24  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2004
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BISAC Categories:
- Photography | Photoessays & Documentaries
- Photography | Subjects & Themes - Architectural & Industrial
- Architecture | Buildings - Public, Commercial & Industrial
Dewey: 362.210
Series: Great Lakes Books
Physical Information: 0.62" H x 10.02" W x 7.2" L (1.67 lbs) 212 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Geographic Orientation - Michigan
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product
Awards: Michigan Notable Books, Winner, Notable Book, 2002
 
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Publisher Description:
In the nineteenth century, perhaps no approach to mental illness was more compassionate than that of hospital administrator Thomas Story Kirkbride, whose asylum designs integrated beauty and nature as a method to treat patients. The Northern Michigan Asylum in Traverse City, Michigan, was one of the last of nearly two hundred such architecturally intriguing asylums. Founded in 1885 under the principle "beauty is therapy," the Northern Michigan Asylum closed in 1989 and today stands as a haunting reminder of this lost era. Angels in the Architecture is a photographic study of this institution's one-hundred-year history. Heidi Johnson's photographs of the building today are juxtaposed with rare images from private collections and state archives. Johnson has captured Kirkbride's spirit of compassion-of angels in the architecture-in a book that conveys the human element of mental illness with beauty and integrity.
 
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