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.

First edition

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

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

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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9780826512772 (alk. paper)

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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.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 116320
Cote: ID F444.N25.C58; ID:96-B3012
Statut: Disponible