“Sullivan”

AboutNarciso G. Menocal's review of *Louis Sullivan: The Function of Ornament*, catalogue for the 1986–87 Chicago Historical Society/Cooper-Hewitt/Saint Louis Art Museum exhibition edited by Wim de Wit, situates the volume within the mid-1980s Sullivan scholarly revival alongside Menocal's own *Architecture as Nature* and new books by Twombly, Millett, and Andrew. Menocal summarizes and assesses the catalogue's four essays — David Van Zanten on Sullivan's French Beaux-Arts and Richardsonian formation, William Jordy on the tall buildings as an expression of Sullivan's individualism, Wim de Wit on the progressive-banking movement behind Sullivan's rural banks (including comparison to Purcell and Elmslie's bank work), and Rochelle Berger Elstein on the critical historiography of Sullivan — and separately reviews David Andrew's *Louis Sullivan and the Polemics of Modern Architecture* unfavorably.

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