Brooklyn Public Monuments
Title | Brooklyn Public Monuments PDF eBook |
Author | Elmer Sprague |
Publisher | Dog Ear Publishing |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
ISBN | 1598585827 |
Monuments and Masterpieces
Title | Monuments and Masterpieces PDF eBook |
Author | Donald M. Reynolds |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan
Title | Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan PDF eBook |
Author | Dianne L. Durante |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2007-02 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0814719872 |
Stop, look, and discover—the streets and parks of Manhattan are filled with beautiful historic monuments that will entertain, stimulate, and inspire you. Among the 54 monuments in this volume are major figures in American history: Washington, Lincoln, Lafayette, Horace Greeley, and Gertrude Stein; more obscure figures: Daniel Butterfield, J. Marion Sims, and King Jagiello; as well as the icons of New York: Atlas, Prometheus, and the Firemen's Memorial. The monuments represent the work of some of America's best sculptors: Augustus Saint Gaudens’ Farragut and Sherman, Daniel Chester French’s Four Continents, and Anna Hyatt Huntington’s José Martí and Joan of Arc. Each monument, illustrated with black-and-white photographs, is located on a map of Manhattan and includes easy-to-follow directions. All the sculptures are considered both as historical mementos and as art. We learn of furious General Sherman court-martialing a civilian journalist, and also of exasperated Saint Gaudens’ proposing a hook-and-spring device for improving his assistants' artistic acuity as they help model Sherman. We discover how Lincoln dealt with a vociferous Confederate politician from Ohio, and why the Lincoln in Union Square doesn't rank as a top-notch Lincoln portrait. Sidebars reveal other aspects of the figure or event commemorated, using personal quotes, poems, excerpts from nineteenth-century periodicals (New York Times, Harper's Weekly), and writers ranging from Aeschylus, Washington Irving, and Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi to Mark Twain and Henryk Sienkiewicz. As a historical account, Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide is a fascinating look at figures and events that changed New York, the United States and the world. As an aesthetic handbook it provides a compact method for studying sculpture, inspired by Ayn Rand’s writings on art. For residents and tourists, and historians and students, who want to spend more time viewing and appreciating sculpture and New York history, this is the start of a unique voyage of discovery.
Historical Markers and Monuments in Brooklyn
Title | Historical Markers and Monuments in Brooklyn PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 1952 |
Genre | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
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Twenty-one Elephants and Still Standing
Title | Twenty-one Elephants and Still Standing PDF eBook |
Author | April Jones Prince |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.) |
ISBN | 061844887X |
Upon completion of the Brooklyn Bridge, P.T. Barnum and his twenty- one elephants parade across to prove to everyone that the bridge is safe.
Brooklyn Public Library, Ingersoll Memorial
Title | Brooklyn Public Library, Ingersoll Memorial PDF eBook |
Author | Brooklyn Public Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 1942 |
Genre | |
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List of Memorials, Monuments-tablets, Statues & Works of Art on Park Property in the Borough of Brooklyn, Together with Descriptive and Historical Sketches Relating to Each
Title | List of Memorials, Monuments-tablets, Statues & Works of Art on Park Property in the Borough of Brooklyn, Together with Descriptive and Historical Sketches Relating to Each PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1933 |
Genre | Memorials |
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