Main entry:

Durante, Dianne L.

Title & Author:

Outdoor monuments of Manhattan : a historical guide / Dianne Durante.

Publication:

New York : New York University Press, ©2007.

Description:

vii, 302 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

Summary:

"Stop, look, and discover-the streets and parks of Manhattan are filled with beautiful historic monuments that will entertain, stimulate, and inspire you. Among the fifty-four monuments in this volume are major figures in American history: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, the Marquis de Lafayette, Horace Greeley, and Gertrude Stein; more obscure figures: Daniel Butterfield, J. Marion Sims, and King Jagiello; as well as icons of New York: Atlas, Prometheus, and the Firemen's Memorial. The monuments represent the work of some of America's best sculptors: Augustus Saint-Gaudens's Farragut and Sherman, Daniel Chester French's Four Continents, and Anna Hyatt Huntington's Jose Marti and Joan of Arc." "Each monument, illustrated with black-and-white photographs, is located on a map of Manhattan and includes easy-to-follow directions. All the sculptures are consider both as historical mementos and as art. Sidebars reveal other aspect of the figure or event commemorated, using personal quotes, poems, excerpts from nineteenth-century periodicals (The New York Times, Harper's Weekly), and writers ranging from Aeschylus, Washington Irving, and Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi to Mark Twain and Henryk Sienkiewicz." "As a historical account, Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan is a fascinating look at figures and events that changed New York, the United States, and the world. As an aesthetic handbook, it provides a concise method for learning to study sculpture. For residents and tourists, historians and students, and anyone who wants to spend more time viewing and appreciating sculpture and New York history, this is the start of a unique voyage of discovery. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents only

ISBN:

0814719864 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780814719862 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0814719872 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780814719879 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Public sculpture New York (State) New York Guidebooks.
Outdoor sculpture New York (State) New York Guidebooks.
Statues New York (State) New York Guidebooks.
Sculpture publique New York (État) New York Guides.
Sculpture en plein air New York (État) New York Guides.
Statues New York (État) New York Guides.
Buildings
Outdoor sculpture
Public sculpture
Statues
Plastik
Monuments New York (State) New York Guidebooks
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) Buildings, structures, etc. Guidebooks.
New York (N.Y.) Buildings, structures, etc. Guidebooks.
New York (N.Y.) Guidebooks.
New York (State) New York
New York (State) New York Manhattan
New York, NY

Form/genre:

travel guidebooks.
Guidebooks
Guides touristiques.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 250194
Call No.: NB235.N5 D8 2007
Status: Available