Author: Samuel Saxon Barton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385478553
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385323851
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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Author: United States. 72d Cong., 1st sess., 1931-1932
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Category : Aycock Statue (Washington, D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Author: Charles Cook
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 9780809223992
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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" ... Hundred of ideas, thoughts, and suggestions intended to assist and inspire us to cultivate a more meaningful relationship with nature."--Cover.

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.

Author: Alfred Seelye Roe
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 1200

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Category : Income tax
Languages : en
Pages : 908

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Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 1490

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Author: Sally Webster
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135154201X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 411

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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.