Monument Wars - Washington, D. C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape
by Savage, Kirk
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- 0520271335
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University of California Press. New. 2011. Softcover. 0520271335 . This specific softcover book is in new condition with a cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "The National Mall in Washington, D.C., is a great public space, as essential a part of the American landscape as the Grand Canyon, according to architecture critic Paul Goldberger, but few realize how recent, fragile, and contested this achievement is. In Monument Wars, Kirk Savage tells the Mall's engrossing story-its historic plan, the structures that populate its corridors, and the sea change it reveals regarding national representation. Central to this narrative is a dramatic shift from the nineteenth-century concept of a decentralized landscape, or ground-heroic statues spread out in traffic circles and picturesque parks-to the twentieth-century ideal of space, in which authority is concentrated in an intensified center, and the monument is transformed from an object of reverence to a space of experience. Savage's lively and intelligent analysis traces the refocusing of the monuments themselves, from that of a single man, often on horseback, to commemorations of common soldiers or citizens; and from monuments that celebrate victory and heroism to memorials honoring victims. An indispensable guide to the National Mall, Monument Wars provides a fresh and fascinating perspective on over two hundred years of American history."; 7 X 1 X 10 inches; 408 pages .
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Title
- Monument Wars - Washington, D. C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape
- Author
- Savage, Kirk
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0520271335
- ISBN 13
- 9780520271333
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- 0520271335, Washington D.C. Monuments, D.C. Memorials, National Mall, Washington D.C.
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