Main entry:

Heckscher, Morrison H.

Title & Author:

Creating Central Park / Morrison H. Heckscher.

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2008.

Description:

73, [1] pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm.

Series:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art bulletin, 0026-1521 ; v. 65 no. 3

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 74).
Director's note / Philippe de Montebello -- A note from the New York City Parks Commissioner / Adrian Benepe -- A note from the President of the Central Park Conservancy / Douglas Blonsky -- The Commissioners' plan and New York City's early parks and squares -- The decision to build an new park and the selection of its site -- Egbert L. Viele and the first park plan -- The design competition -- Vaux, Olmsted, and the Greensward Plan -- Building the park -- Calvert Vaux, Jacob Wrey Mould, and the park buildings -- Richard Morris Hunt and Central Park -- Sculpture in the park -- Central Park completed.

Summary:

The year 2008 marks the 150th anniversary of the design of Central Park, the first and arguably the most famous of America's urban landscape parks. In October 1857 the new park's board of commissioners announced a public design competition, and the following April the imaginative yet practicable Greensward plan submitted by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted was selected. This book tells the fascinating story of how an extraordinary work of public art emerged from the crucible of New York City politics. From William Cullen Bryant's 1844 editorial calling for a pleasure ground of shade and recreation to the completion of construction in 1870, the history of Central Park is an urban epic--a tale not only of animosity, political intrigue, and desire but also of idealism, sacrifice, and genius.

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ISBN:

9781588392466 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
1588392465 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
9780300136692 (Yale University Press)
0300136692 (Yale University Press)

Subject:

Landscape architecture New York (State) New York History.
Architecture du paysage New York (État) New York Histoire.
Landscape architecture.
Central Park (New York, N.Y.) History.
New York (N.Y.) History.
Central Park (New York, N.Y.) Histoire.
New York (N.Y.) Histoire.
New York (State) New York.
New York (State) New York Central Park.
New York <NY> Central Park.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Metropolitan Museum of Art bulletin ; v. 65, no. 3.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 256513
Call No.: BIB 186895
Status: Available