The Nation's First Monument and the Origins of the American Memorial Tradition: Liberty Enshrined

ISBN-13: 9781138548121 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 254 str.

Sally Webster

Opis

The commemorative tradition in early American art is considered 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. Webster's study provides a new focus on New York City as the eighteenth-century city in which the European tradition of public commemoration was reconstituted as monuments to liberty's heroes.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; New York’s De Lancey family and the origins of the American memorial tradition; Celebrating the repeal of the Stamp Act: New York tributes to William Pitt and George III; A memorial to General Richard Montgomery: commemorating the death of an American hero; Benjamin Franklin and the commission of America’s first monument; New York, Pierre-Charles L’Enfant, and a monument for America; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Sally Webster is Professor of American Art, Emerita at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA.