Classical Nashville : Athens of the South / by Christine Kreyling, Wesley Paine, Charles W. Warterfield, Jr., Susan Ford Wiltshire ; with an essay by Alan LeQuire, sculptor of the Nashville Athena ; book and jacket design by Gary Gore.

Title & Author:

Edition:

First edition

Publication:

Nashville ; London : Vanderbilt University Press, 1996.
Composed and Bound by Thompson-Shore, Inc.

Description:

xvii, 186 pages : illustrations, b&w photographs ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-176) and index.
Prelude -- 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.

Summary:

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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Publisher description

ISBN:

0826512771 (alk. paper)
9780826512772 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Civilization
Civilization Classical influences
Nashville (Tenn.) Civilization.
United States Civilization Classical influences.
Tennessee Nashville
United States
Nashville (Tenn.) Civilisation.

Added entries:

Kreyling, Christine, 1949- author.
Paine, Wesley, author.
Warterfield, Charles W., author.
Wiltshire, Susan Ford, 1941- author.
LeQuire, Alan, contributor.
Gore, Gary G., 1932- book designer, cover designer.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 116320
Call No.: ID F444.N25.C58; ID:96-B3012
Status: Available

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