Monument wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the transformation of the memorial landscape
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1. Verfasser: Savage, Kirk 1958- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press ©2009
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- A monument to a deceased project -- Covering ground -- The mechanic monster -- Inventing public space -- The monument transformed -- The conscience of the nation -- An end to war, an end to monuments?
The National Mall in Washington, D.C., is "a great public space, as essential a part of the American landscape as the Grand Canyon," according to architecture critic Paul Goldberger, but few realize how recent, fragile, and contested this achievement is. In Monument Wars, Kirk Savage tells the Mall's engrossing story-its historic plan, the structures that populate its corridors, and the sea change it reveals regarding national representation. Central to this narrative is a dramatic shift from the nineteenth-century concept of a decentralized landscape, or "ground"--Heroic statues spread out in
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ISBN:0520256549
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1282359932
9780520256545
9780520944770
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