Author: Hamilton Wright MabiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
The Memorial Story of America
Author: Hamilton Wright MabiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
The Memorial Story of America, Comprising the Important Events, Episodes, and Incidents which Make Up the Record of Four Hundred Years from Columbus to the Present Time
Author: Hamilton Wright MabiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 831
Book Description
The Memorial Story of America, Comprising the Important Events, Episodes, and Incidents which Make Up the Record of Four Hundred Years from 1492 to 1892, Etc
Author: Hamilton Wright MabiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 851
Book Description
Memorial Story of America
Author: Hamilton Wright MabiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
Footprints of Four Centuries
Author: Hamilton Wright MabiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dummies (Bookselling)
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1876-1949
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of BibliographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Illustrated Catalogue of Books
Author: A.C. McClurg & CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Nation's First Monument and the Origins of the American Memorial Tradition
Author: Sally WebsterPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135154201X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
The commemorative tradition in early American art is given sustained consideration for the first time in Sally Webster's study of public monuments and the construction of an American patronymic tradition. Until now, no attempt has been made to create a coherent early history of the carved symbolic language of American liberty and independence. Establishing as the basis of her discussion the fledgling nation's first monument, Jean-Jacques Caffi?'s Monument to General Richard Montgomery (commissioned in January of 1776), Webster builds on the themes of commemoration and national patrimony, ultimately positing that like its instruments of government, America drew from the Enlightenment and its reverence for the classical past. Webster's study is grounded in the political and social worlds of New York City, moving chronologically from the 1760s to the 1790s, with a concluding chapter considering the monument, which lies just east of Ground Zero, against the backdrop of 9/11. It is an original contribution to historical scholarship in fields ranging from early American art, sculpture, New York history, and the Revolutionary era. A chapter is devoted to the exceptional role of Benjamin Franklin in the commissioning and design of the monument. Webster's study provides a new focus on New York City as the 18th-century city in which the European tradition of public commemoration was reconstituted as monuments to liberty's heroes.