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Author: Sarah Shields Driggs Publisher: ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 306
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An illustrated history of Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue, showing the most prestigious homes and distinguished architecture, as well as the statues that have often been a source of controversy.
Author: Sarah Shields Driggs Publisher: ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 306
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An illustrated history of Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue, showing the most prestigious homes and distinguished architecture, as well as the statues that have often been a source of controversy.
Author: Judy P. Smith Publisher: ISBN: 9781715637484 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This pictorial of the Avenue, and other removed monuments, was compiled prior to the 2020 protests and removal efforts. It is my sincere hope that these images preserve the fond memories of the city for those lucky enough to have seen them before the destruction, and gives a glimpse into the beauty that was once Monument Avenue for those that never had the opportunity to visit.
Author: Sarah Shields Driggs Publisher: ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 306
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An illustrated history of Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue, showing the most prestigious homes and distinguished architecture, as well as the statues that have often been a source of controversy.
Author: Patricia Cecil Hass Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1625845022 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 138
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Originally a tribute to Robert E. Lee, Richmond's Monument Avenue grew to its zenith in the early twentieth century as a place of wealth and privilege. Richmond native and child of Monument Avenue Patricia Hass has collected the loving memories of those who shared a childhood among the River City's elite. These pages are filled with recollections of warm afternoons playing in the shadows of the monuments and visits to neighborhood institutions such as Reuben's Deli and the Capitol Theatre. While the children played, their families entertained famous houseguests such as David Niven, Lord and Lady Astor and Winston Churchill. Enter each historic home along the avenue and travel back to a time now lost to memory.
Author: Allan B. Jacobs Publisher: Mit Press ISBN: 9780262600231 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 331
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Which are the world's best streets, and what are the physical, designable characteristics that make them great? To answer these questions, Allan Jacobs has surveyed street users and design professionals and has studied a wide array of street types and urban spaces around the world. With more than 200 illustrations, all prepared by the author, along with analysis and statistics, Great Streets offers a wealth of information on street dimensions, plans, sections, and patterns of use, all systematically compared. It also reveals Jacobs's eye for the telling human and social details that bring streets and communities to life.An extensive introduction discusses the importance of streets in creating communities and criteria for identifying the best streets. The essays that follow examine 15 particularly fine streets, ranging from medieval streets in Rome and Copenhagen to Venice's Grand Canal, from Parisian boulevards to tree-lined residential streets in American cities. Jacobs also looks at several streets that were once very fine but are less successful today, such as Market Street in San Francisco, identifying the factors that figure in their decline.To broaden his coverage, Jacobs adds briefer treatments of more than 30 other streets arranged by street type, including streets from Australia, Japan, and classical antiquity in addition to European and North American examples. For each of these streets he has prepared plans, sections, and maps, all drawn at the same scales to facilitate comparisons, along with perspective views and drawings of significant design details.Another remarkable feature of this book is a set of 50 one square-mile maps, each reproduced at the same scale, of the street plans of representative cities around the world. These reveal much about the texture of the cities' street patterns and hence of their urban life. Jacobs's analysis of the maps adds much original data derived from them, including changes of street patterns over time.Jacobs concludes by summarizing the practical design qualities and strategies that have contributed most to the making of great streets.
Author: Cynthia Mills Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press ISBN: 9781572332720 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 308
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This richly illustrated collection of fourteen essays examines the ways in which Confederate memorials - from Monument Avenue to Stone Mountain - and the public rituals surrounding them testify to the tenets of the Lost Cause, a romanticized narrative of the war. Several essays highlight the creative leading role played by women's groups in memorialization, while others explore the alternative ways in which people outside white southern culture wrote their very different histories on the southern landscape. The authors - who include Richard Guy Wilson, Catherine W. Bishir, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, and William M.S. Ramussen - trace the origins, objectives, and changing consequences of Confederate monuments over time and the dynamics of individuals and organizations that sponsored them. Thus these essays extend the growing literature on the rhetoric of the Lost Cause by shifting the focus to the realm of the visual. They are especially relevant in the present day when Confederate symbols and monuments continue to play a central role in a public - and often emotionally charged - debate about how the South's past should be remembered. The editors: Art Historian Cynthia Mills, a specialist in nineteenth-century public sculpture, is executive editor of American Art, the scholarly journal of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Pamela H. Simpson is the Ernest Williams II Professor of Art History at Washington and Lee University. She is the coauthor of The Architecture of Historic Lexington.
Author: ROSE Publisher: Circa ISBN: 9781911422143 Category : Languages : en Pages : 128
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- A powerful photographic record of the destruction of Virginia's most famous Confederate landmarks - Contains significant commentaries by news and broadcast media - Brian Rose reflects on his own history as a native Virginian and the roles played by his forebears in the Antebellum South If Richmond VA represented the historic heart of the Confederacy, then Monument Avenue was meant to memorialise its soul. The avenue was conceived in the 1870s, when the city elected to build a memorial to General Robert E Lee. It was not until 1890, however, that the massive monument was unveiled. Over the succeeding decades, Lee was joined by statues commemorating other leading Confederate military and political figures - JEB Stuart, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson and Matthew Fontaine Maury. Almost from the moment they were erected, the Confederate monuments, as symbols of white supremacy, were the focus of controversy and protest. The climax came in the summer of 2020 when Black Lives Matter protesters, outraged by the death of George Floyd, converged on the avenue to vent their fury. On July 10th, Jefferson Davis was dragged from his pedestal. Two days later, Brian Rose packed up his cameras in New York and drove back to his home state to document the last days of the grand boulevard of the Lost Cause. En route, he reflected on his own history and the roles played by his forebears in the Antebellum South.
Author: Sanford Levinson Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 1478004347 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 224
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Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a new preface and afterword From the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans in the spring of 2017 to the violent aftermath of the white nationalist march on the Robert E. Lee monument in Charlottesville later that summer, debates and conflicts over the memorialization of Confederate “heroes” have stormed to the forefront of popular American political and cultural discourse. In Written in Stone Sanford Levinson considers the tangled responses to controversial monuments and commemorations while examining how those with political power configure public spaces in ways that shape public memory and politics. Paying particular attention to the American South, though drawing examples as well from elsewhere in the United States and throughout the world, Levinson shows how the social and legal arguments regarding the display, construction, modification, and destruction of public monuments mark the seemingly endless confrontation over the symbolism attached to public space. This twentieth anniversary edition of Written in Stone includes a new preface and an extensive afterword that takes account of recent events in cities, schools and universities, and public spaces throughout the United States and elsewhere. Twenty years on, Levinson's work is more timely and relevant than ever.
Author: Richmond (Va.). Monument Avenue Commission Publisher: ISBN: Category : Collective memory and city planning Languages : en Pages : 115
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"In June 2017, Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney announced the formation of a commission to determine what to do with Confederate monuments located on historic Monument Avenue. Throughout the United States, many cities were grappling with what to do with Confederate symbols in public spaces... The statues on Monument Avenue have been a source of pride and shame for the City's residents from the time of their installations. As the City has become more ethnically, politically and socioeconomically diverse, tolerance for the monuments' artistic and culture meaning has shifted over time. In essence it is a question of whether or not Monument Avenue reflects the citizenry and its values. It is for these reasons the Commission was formed and tasked to determine how best to reconcile a particular landscape viewed as both sacred and profane. During the course of this work, the Monument Avenue Commission has mined almost two thousand letters, devoted considerable time in public forums and tirelessly researched to ensure this report reflects our diverse public and the best scholarship to craft a solution that is best for Richmond. This report is the first comprehensive review of Monument Avenue commissioned by the City in over 50 years."--Introduction, page 3.
Author: Sarah Shields Driggs
Author: Sarah Shields Driggs
Author: Kathy Edwards
Author: Judy P. Smith
Author: Sarah Shields Driggs
Author: Patricia Cecil Hass
Author: Allan B. Jacobs
Author: Cynthia Mills
Author: ROSE
Author: Sanford Levinson
Author: Richmond (Va.). Monument Avenue Commission