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Howard Mansfield
I Will Tell No War Stories is about undoing the forgetting in a family and in a society that has hidden the horrors and cataclysm of a world at war…
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Our rock-solid belief in the certainty of property gives way to anguish when competing interests challenge it
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A book on the multiplicity and universality of longing, and how this manifests in America.
Cosmopolis is the story of the ideal city we never achieved, and the great plans that went into making-over precincts of our urban language.
Before Thomas Edison, light and fire were thought to be one and the same. Turns out, they were separate things altogether. This book takes a similar relationship, that of time…
In the Memory House recalls what American society has forgotten–the land, its people, and its ideals. By examining what we choose to remember, this important book reveals how progress has…
Before Thomas Edison, light and fire were thought to be one and the same. Turns out, they were separate things altogether. This book explores how our sudden interconnectedness, both physically…
Cosmopolis is a pattern book of expectations, generously illustrated with a gathering of plans from the City Beautiful to the Italian Futurists, The Cite Industrielle, World’s Fair utopias, science fiction…
A search for the ordinary qualities that make some houses a home, and some public places welcoming.
Mansfield explores the loss of cultural memory, asking: What is the past? How can the past be constructed? Is it possible to preserve the past as a vital force for…
An insightful but droll glimpse inside the life of one New England town
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
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A small tour, near and far
Boston, Howard Mansfield
This is a catalog of an exhibition of prints from the collection of Howard Mansfield, an American collector and dealer who specialized in etchings and dry-points by artists such as…
