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Walt Whitman and Louis Sullivan: The Aesthetics of Egalitarianism

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Examines the relation between Whitman and Functionalist architect Louis Sullivan and uses Whitman's poetry and cultural criticism "as a lens with which we might focus Sullivan's writings on architecture"; emphasizes "the extent to which the social and political assumptions of the two artists determined the experiments in form which each made in his respective art."

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How to Cite: Murphy, K. (1988) “Walt Whitman and Louis Sullivan: The Aesthetics of Egalitarianism”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. 6(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1198