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Title: Fiske and Marie Kimball
Condition: New
Subtitle: Shaping Public Engagement with Architecture and the Arts
Author: Marie Frank
Contributor: Marie Frank (Edited by), Richard Guy Wilson (Contributions by), Lauren Weiss Bricker (Contributions by), Danielle S. Willkens (Contributions by), Susan Kern (Contributions by), Carl R. Lounsbury (Contributions by), John H. Sprinkle (Contributions by), Gardiner Hallock (Contributions by), Ann M. Lucas (Contributions by), John Vick (Contributions by)
Format: Hardback
EAN: 9780813953991
ISBN: 9780813953991
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Genre: Architecture & Antiques
Topic: Technology & Engineering
Release Date: 12/04/2025
Description: The fascinating journey of one of the art world's great midcentury power couples

The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore how Fiske and Marie Kimball, together and in their own respective ways, shaped the experience and understanding of art and architecture in the twentieth century. From his pioneering publication Thomas Jefferson, Architect in 1916 through his long connection with Monticello and position as director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Fiske Kimball emerged as a powerful and influential voice. He was dubbed 'the dean of American architectural history,' and his scholarship established the rich legacy of the past while his engagement with public monuments guided design in the present. Marie Kimball was an accomplished historian and prolific writer whose multivolume biography of Jefferson was widely celebrated. She was also the first curator of Monticello and played a key role in the display and interpretation of its historic objects. Although both Fiske and Marie distinguished themselves independently, they also regularly worked together, and their joint efforts evidence a rare partnership of the mind. This collection celebrates and contextualizes this remarkable pair.
Language: English
Item Height: 235mm
Item Length: 156mm
Item Width: 25mm
Item Weight: 525g
Release Year: 2025

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