THE VANISHED RUIN ERA. San Francisco's Classic Artistry of Ruin Depicted in Picture and Song.. Cet article n’est pas disponible.THE VANISHED RUIN ERA. San Francisco's Classic Artistry of Ruin Depicted in Picture and Song.

Quarto (approx. 8 1/8" wide by 10 7/8" tall). burlap spine over brown boards stamped in gilt and with sepia-toned gravure on top cover. 27 tipped in sepia-toned photogravures with verses on facing pages; both on heavy brown art paper. Photos depict San Francisco buildings in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake and fire. Some of the burlap on the spine and joints is frayed or missing. However the book is sound and the interior is fine. ".that modern Acropolis which the Fire God created, that ephemeral and vanished ruin era which in the weird, flame-wrought transformation made things of beauty out of hovels; which carved shapes of classic dignity out of structural atrocities which lent a touch of magical, if spurious, age-refinement to the fire-ravished areas, akin to the decadent and time-hallowed grandeur of Athens and of Rome." --from the introduction. Stellmann was a protege of Arnold Genthe. 051517A.