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ISBN: 069101616X 0691009473 1400889170 Year: 1997 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,
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The United States of America originated as a slave society, holding millions of Africans and their descendants in bondage, and remained so until a civil war took the lives of a half million soldiers, some once slaves themselves. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves explores how that history of slavery and its violent end was told in public space--specifically in the sculptural monuments that increasingly came to dominate streets, parks, and town squares in nineteenth-century America. Here Kirk Savage shows how the greatest era of monument building in American history arose amidst struggles over race, gender, and collective memory. As men and women North and South fought to define the war's legacy in monumental art, they reshaped the cultural landscape of American nationalism. At the same time that the Civil War challenged the nation to reexamine the meaning of freedom, Americans began to erect public monuments as never before. Savage studies this extraordinary moment in American history when a new interracial order seemed to be on the horizon, and when public sculptors tried to bring that new order into concrete form. Looking at monuments built and unbuilt, Savage shows how an old image of black slavery was perpetuated while a new image of the common white soldier was launched in public space. Faced with the challenge of Reconstruction, the nation ultimately recast itself in the mold of the ordinary white man. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves, the first sustained investigation of monument building as a process of national and racial definition, probes a host of fascinating questions: How was slavery to be explained without exploding the myth of a "united" people? How did notions of heroism become racialized? And more generally, who is represented in and by monumental space? How are particular visions of history constructed by public monuments? Written in an engaging fashion, this book will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in American culture, race relations, and public art.
Slaves --- Public sculpture, American --- Esclaves --- Sculpture publique américaine --- Emancipation --- Affranchissement --- United States --- Etats-Unis --- History --- Social aspects --- Race relations. --- Histoire --- Aspect social --- Relations raciales --- National characteristics, American --- Social aspects. --- Slavery --- American public sculpture --- American national characteristics --- Enslaved persons
ISBN: 0896595757 0896595870 Year: 1985 Publisher: New York, NY : Abbeville press,
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Art --- Sculpture --- outdoor sculpture --- sculpting --- Hrdlicka, Alfred --- Hokanson, Hans --- Caro, Anthony --- Smith, David --- Konzal, Joseph --- Calder, Alexander --- Capps, Kenneth --- Schlee, Hans --- Ginnever, Charles --- Myers, Forrest --- Perlman, Joel Leonard --- Annesley, David --- Hawkins, Gilbert --- Kirk, Jerome --- Huntington, Jim --- Gonschior, Kuno --- Pillhofer, Josef --- Etrog, Sorel --- Stankiewicz, Richard --- Tucker, William --- Greco, Emilio --- Todd, Michael Cullen --- Gebhardt, Roland --- Dehner, Dorothy --- Ferber, Herbert --- Rickey, George --- Streeter, Tal --- Kosso, Eloul --- von Schlegel, David --- Pfann, Karl --- Noguchi, Isamu --- Suvero, di, Mark --- Trova, Ernest --- Wotruba, Fritz --- Stoltz, David --- Snelson, Kenneth --- Campbell, Kenneth --- Hepworth, Barbara --- Witkin, Isaac --- Etienne-Martin --- Knowlton, Grace F. --- Negri, Mario --- Moore, Henry --- LeWitt, Sol --- Bill, Max --- Liberman, Alexander --- Blumenfeld, Helaine --- Walburg, Gerald --- Storm King Art Center --- anno 1900-1999 --- Paolozzi, Eduardo --- Kipp, Lyman --- Simonds, Charles --- Norton, Ann --- Abdell, Douglas --- Kadishman, Menashe --- Murray, Robert --- Friedberg, Richard --- Nevelson, Louise --- Baizerman, Saul --- Sugarman, George --- Westerlund Roosen, Mia --- Public sculpture, American --- Sculpture publique américaine --- Storm King Art Center. --- Sculpture publique américaine --- Bourgeois, Louise --- Sculptors --- sculpture gardens --- Bronze sculptors --- Artists --- American public sculpture --- Sculpteurs --- Biography. --- Biographie --- Perlman, Joel --- Schlegell, von, David --- Eloul, Kosso --- Roosen, Mia Westerlund --- Storm King Art Center [Mountainville, N.Y.] --- Todd, Michael --- SCULPTURE AMERICAINE --- SCULPTURE EN PLEIN AIR --- STORM KING ART CENTER (NEW YORK) --- 20E SIECLE --- COLLECTIONS D'ART
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