The Hall of Fame for Great Americans A Biography of Stanford White's Forgotten Memorial | 24.39 MB
Title: The Hall of Fame for Great Americans A Biography of Stanford White's Forgotten Memorial
Author: Sheila Gerami
Category: Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, Art Technique, Sculpture, History, Americas, United States, 20th Century, Art History
Language: English | 308 Pages | ISBN: 9781621908968
Description:
The Hall of Fame for Great Americans provides a window into the cultural changes taking place in the United States from the turn of the twentieth century into the twenty-first. This book is the first examination of the institutional and social history of America's first hall of fame, from its dynamic opening in 1901 through its protracted decline in the late twentieth century and its brief return to relevancy in the early twenty-first century.
It also examines in depth what is arguably the least studied project of Stanford White, one of the most distinguished architects of the Gilded Age. Originally designed for New York University's new campus in the Bronx, the Hall of Fame once housed ninety-eight bronze busts of men and women deemed "great Americans" within its elegant colonnade, including the likes of George Washington, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Booker T. Washington, Susan B. Anthony, and Robert E. Lee.
The Hall was conceived when the Great Man theory dominated...
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