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Author: Maxine Brown
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1557289344
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Revealing, entertaining window on the music of the ’50s and ’60s

Author: Douglas Brinkley
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780060851583
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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In May 2004, the sixtieth anniversary year of D-Day, the nation paid tribute to its World War II heroes with the dedication of a memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. This beautifully illustrated keepsake offers a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the memorial and its place in American history. Exclusive photographs show the memorial in all stages of development, accompanied by text exploring the symbolism of each part -- the Rainbow Pool, the Wall of Remembrance, the Field of Stars, the Freedom Wall, and the Pillars of the States and Territories. George H. W. Bush, former senator Bob Dole, Yogi Berra, and other veterans share their personal stories, and leading military historians contribute essays on the war efforts at home and abroad. Like the memorial it commemorates, this book pays tribute to the "greatest generation" -- the everyday Americans who rose up to defend our freedom.

Author: Nicolaus Mills
Publisher:
ISBN: 0786728426
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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On Memorial Day weekend in 2004, the National World War II Memorial on the Mall in Washington will officially open to the public. What began as a casual conversation between a Congresswoman and one of her constituents in 1987 grew into a struggle that lasted more than four times longer than it took America to fight the war itself. Its rocky progress to completion is a compelling story about how America chooses to memorialize its past and how we view World War II.Nicolaus Mills recounts the development of the Washington Mall, from its time as swampland to Southern outrage over the Lincoln Memorial to Maya Lin's controversial Vietnam Veterans' Memorial. The World War II Memorial would prove just as controversial; it took the support of WW II vet Bob Dole and actor Tom Hanks to overrule the strong objections of interest groups, self-appointed art critics, and others.In Their Last Battle, a story vividly narrated through interviews with politicians and vets, architects and citizens, Mills discovers what a public monument can tell us about America and the values it honors.

Author: Jay Winter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110766165X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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This 'collective remembrance' of the Great War reassesses one of the critical episodes in twentieth-century cultural history.

Author: Maureen Robins
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
ISBN: 161590784X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Detailed Descriptions About The World War I Memorial Explore Basic History About This War.

Author: James C. Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : War memorials
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Author: Friedrich St. Florian
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architectural drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Author: Maureen Picard Robins
Publisher: Rourke Educational Media
ISBN: 9781606944288
Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Learn Detailed Information About The World War II Memorial And Basic History About This War.

Author: Jan C. Scruggs
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780060923440
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Author: Maya Lin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501146564
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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Renowned artist and architect Maya Lin's visual and verbal sketchbook—a unique view into her artwork and philosophy. Walking through this parklike area, the memorial appears as a rift in the earth -- a long, polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth. Approaching the memorial, the ground slopes gently downward, and the low walls emerging on either side, growing out of the earth, extend and converge at a point below and ahead. Walking into the grassy site contained by the walls of this memorial, we can barely make out the carved names upon the memorial's walls. These names, seemingly infinite in number, convey the sense of overwhelming numbers, while unifying these individuals into a whole.... So begins the competition entry submitted in 1981 by a Yale undergraduate for the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. -- subsequently called "as moving and awesome and popular a piece of memorial architecture as exists anywhere in the world." Its creator, Maya Lin, has been nothing less than world famous ever since. From the explicitly political to the un-ashamedly literary to the completely abstract, her simple and powerful sculpture -- the Rockefeller Foundation sculpture, the Southern Poverty Law Center Civil Rights Memorial, the Yale Women's Table, Wave Field -- her architecture, including The Museum for African Art and the Norton residence, and her protean design talents have defined her as one of the most gifted creative geniuses of the age. Boundaries is her first book: an eloquent visual/verbal sketchbook produced with the same inspiration and attention to detail as any of her other artworks. Like her environmental sculptures, it is a site, but one which exists at a remove so that it may comment on the personal and artistic elements that make up those works. In it, sketches, photographs, workbook entries, and original designs are held together by a deeply personal text. Boundaries is a powerful literary and visual statement by "a leading public artist" (Holland Carter). It is itself a unique work of art.