Avant-Garde in the Cornfields: Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony

A close examination of an iconic small town that gives boundless insights into architecture, landscape, preservation, and philanthropy

Avant-Garde in the Cornfields is an in-depth study of New Harmony, Indiana, a unique town in the American Midwest renowned as the site of two successive Utopian settlements during the nineteenth century: the Harmonists and the Owenites. During the Cold War years of the twentieth century, New Harmony became a spiritual “living community” and attracted a wide v...