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Genre/Form: | Guidebooks |
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Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Dianne L Durante |
ISBN: | 0814719864 9780814719862 0814719872 9780814719879 |
OCLC Number: | 70839780 |
Description: | vii, 302 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm |
Contents: | Statue of Liberty / Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi -- John Ericsson / Jonathan Scott Hartley -- Giovanni da Verrazzano / Ettore Ximenes -- Continents / Daniel Chester French -- Charging Bull / Arturo Di Modica -- George Washington / John Quincy Adams Ward -- Horace Greeley / John Quincy Adams Ward -- Nathan Hale / Frederick MacMonnies -- Fiorello La Guardia / Neil Estern -- Peter Cooper / Augustus Saint Gaudens -- Alexander Lyman Holley / John Quincy Adams Ward -- Washington Arch / Hermon MacNeil and Alexander Stirling Calder -- George Washington / Henry Kirke Brown -- Marquis de Lafayette / Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi -- Abraham Lincoln / Henry Kirke Brown -- Peter Stuyvesand / Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney -- Edwin Booth as Hamley / Edmond T. Quinn -- Roscoe Conkling / John Quincy Adams Ward -- Farragut Monument / Augustus Saint Gaudens -- Samuel Rea / Adolph A. Weinman -- Bell Ringers' Mounment (James Gordon Bennett Memorial) / Antonin Jean Paul Carles -- William Cullen Bryant Memorial / Herbert Adams -- Gertrude Stein / Jo Davidson -- William Earl Dodge / John Quincy Adams Ward -- Cornelius Vanderbilt / Ernst Plassmann -- Glory of Commerce / Jules-Felix Coutan -- Father Francis P. Duffy / Charles Keck -- Prometheus / Paul Manship -- Atlas / Lee Lawrie -- News / Isamu Noguchi -- Sherman Monument / Augustus Saint Gaudens -- Simón Bolívar / Sally James Farnham -- Jóse Martí / Anna Hyatt Huntington -- Maine Mounment / Attilio Piccirilli -- Columbus Monument / Gaetano Russo -- Christopher Columbus / Jeronimo Suñol -- William Shakespeare / John Quincy Adams Ward -- Richard Morris Hunt Memorial / Daniel Chester French -- King Jagiello / Stanislaw Kazimierz Ostrowski -- Eleanor Roosevelt / Penelope Jencks -- Verdi Monument / Pasquale Civiletti -- Theodore Roosevelt / James Earle Fraser -- Alexander Hamilton / Carl Conrads -- Joan of Arc / Anna Hyatt Huntington -- Firemen's Memorial / Attilio Piccirilli -- Straus Memorial / Augustus Lukeman -- Dr. James Marion Sims / Ferdinand von Miller II -- De Witt Clinton / Adolph A. Weinman -- Alma Mater / Daniel Chester Frency -- Thomas Jefferson / William Ordway Partridge / Carl Schurz Monument -- Daniel Butterfield / Gutzon Borglum -- Alexander Hamilton / William Ordway Partridge / El Cid Campeador / Anna Hyatt Huntington. |
Responsibility: | Dianne Durante. |
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"Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan is a primer on getting to know our citys monuments. . . . Each entry has a uniform structure. It contains a photo, vital stats (year dedicated, size, materials), an & About the Sculpture section, and an & About the Subject section, as well as a carefully chosen boxed quotation culled from an old book or newspaper that pertains to the subject. . . . Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan is well written, well researched, well-thought-out, funny, and often refreshingly original, and will help any interested New Yorker know about the wondrous monuments that dot the city." * New York Sun * "[Durante] tackles her task in the manner of a walking tour. . . . The language of the book is friendly and chatty, as if the author were in front of you, conducting an on-site lecture. . . . The purpose of the book is to encourage people to go and see the wealth of outdoor sculpture in Manhattan, and the book treats this purpose with the enthusiasm the subjects deserve." * The Art Book * "Anyone whose curiosity has ever been piqued by the peculiar mixture of historical statues that ornament the grounds of Central Park will find Outdoor Monuments by Dianne Durante a satisfying read. . . . The entries provide background on each works origin, explaining, for example, how a statue of the medieval Polish king Jagiello came to be in New York alongside more predictable allegorical and American patriotic figures. A brief history of the subject is also provided, including enough lively anecdotes and obscure facts to entice all readers." * Sculpture Magazine * "[Durantes] guidebook is a perfect walking-tour accompaniment to help New Yorkers and visitors find, identify and better appreciate statues famous and obscure (honoring, among others, the 'father of gynecology and the general who had an unremarkable military and business career but composed & Taps, the bugle call). . . . Durante winsomely places 54 monuments in historical and artistic perspective. We learn that a trumpet is an allegory for announcing fame, that the monument to Admiral Farragut in Madison Square Park altered the course of American sculpture, that the figure with the winged hat atop Grand Central Terminal is Mercury and that the statue of Atlas at Rockefeller Center was reviled when it was unveiled in 1937 because it supposedly resembled Mussolini. Lets hope Ms. Durante follows up in the other four boroughs." * The New York Times * Read more...


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