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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Christine Kreyling |
ISBN: | 0826512771 9780826512772 |
OCLC Number: | 34476965 |
Description: | xvii, 186 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: Nashville as Athens -- Ch. I. Learning, Religion, and Literature: The Classical Connections -- Ch. II. Symbols of a City: Public Architecture in Classical Styles -- Ch. III. Where We Live: The Classical Style at Home -- Ch. IV. Athena's New Dwelling: The Nashville Parthenon and the Nashville Athena / Alan LeQuire and Christine Kreyling -- Conclusion: Classical Continuities. |
Responsibility: | by Christine Kreyling [and others] ; with an essay by Alan LeQuire. |
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Abstract:
Illustrated with nearly a hundred archival and contemporary photographs, Classical Nashville shows how Nashville earned that appellation through its adoption of classical metaphors in several areas: its educational and literary history, from the first academies through the establishment of the Fugitive movement at Vanderbilt; the classicism of the city's public architecture, including its Capitol and legislative buildings; the evolution of neoclassicism in homes and private buildings; and the history and current state of the Parthenon, the ultimate symbol of classical Nashville, which houses the awe-inspiring 42-foot statue of Athena by sculptor Alan LeQuire.
Nashville's classical identifications have always been forward-looking rather than antiquarian: ambitious, democratic, entrepreneurial, and culturally substantive. Classical Nashville celebrates the continuation of classical ideals in present-day Nashville, ideals that serve not as monuments to a lost past, but as sources of energy, creativity, and imagination for the future of a city.
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