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La 4e de couv. indique : "Le 4 mars 1883, un journaliste confiait au président de la République française, Jules Grévy, visitant les ateliers qui fabriquaient la statue de la Liberté, que cette "oeuvre merveilleuse immortalisera le nom de son auteur". Il se trompait. Dès après sa mort, le nom de Bartholdi disparut. Cet artiste voué aux prouesses monumentales (1834-1904) fut rangé dans la catégorie des "académiques". Le grand Rodin lui vola la vedette. Commença un siècle de solitude. C'est seulement au début du troisième millénaire que le statuaire et son oeuvre resurgirent. L'installation, en 2012, d'un modèle original de la statue de la Liberté au musée d'Orsay marque le début de la redécouverte. La création du nouveau musée de la Liberté, ouvert en 2019 à New York, s'inscrit dans cette dynamique. Ce livre a été écrit pour réparer un déni de mémoire. Fruit d'une longue enquête qui a mis à jour de nombreux documents indédits, il s'attache à situer l'artiste dans son temps et dans ses réseaux, à révéler ses engagements philosophiques et à décrypter le sens de ses oeuvres. Apparaît alors un homme beaucoup plus subtile et complexe, attachant et généreux, hanté par le souci de l'universalité"
Sculptors --- Sculptors --- Sculpture, French --- Biography --- Family relationships. --- Bartholdi, Frédéric Auguste,
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In 1865, while the Civil War was ending and a new era in American history was beginning, an idealistic Frenchman evisioned a project - a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States - a Liberty Statue. This first proposal ; the genius and ambition of sculptor, Bartholdi ; his trip to America and the inspiration he ganed here ; the fund raising efforts of the French people ; Bartholdi's work from model to colossal monument ; Eiffel's contribution ; the meticulous, demanding years of work ; the foundation, the pedestal ; Bedloe's Island ; Joseph Pulitzer's "cash crusade" ; Emma Lazarus and her poem The New Colussus - these people, this time, made and built Miss Liberty ! All are here in this colorful and complete documentary.
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"What began in 1865 in Glatigny, France, at a dinner party hosted by esteemed university professor Édouard René de Laboulaye and attended, among others, by a promising young sculptor, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, was the extravagant notion of creating and giving a monumental statue to America that celebrated the young nation's ideals. Bartholdi, and later civil engineer Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, caught the spirit of the project and thus began the epic struggle to create, build, transport and pay for the monument. Although The Statue of Liberty was to be a gift from France, the cost of its creation was meant to be shared with America. To the Lady's creators and supporters, America offered liberty and the right to live one's life unencumbered, that is, without fear and with a rule of law and a government that derived its power from the consent of the people they governed. Yet, in America, fundraising for the Lady dragged. Had it not been for publisher Joseph Pulitzer's flashy fundraising campaign in the World, the entire project likely would have collapsed"--
Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.) --- History. --- Bartholdi, Frédéric Auguste, --- New York (N.Y.) --- Buildings, structures, etc.
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Icon of freedom and multiethnic democracy, memorial to Franco-American friendship--the lofty meanings we accord the Statue of Liberty today obscure its turbulent origins in 19th-century politics and art. Francesca Lidia Viano reveals that vibrant history in the fullest account yet of the people and ideas that brought the lady of the harbor to life.--
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Icône universellement connue, la statue de la Liberté est sans doute le plus significatif de tous les symboles américains. Pourtant, quand le monument a vu le jour à Paris en 1883 et est arrivé dans le port de New York deux ans plus tard, ses contemporains n'auraient jamais pensé que ce cadeau du peuple français aux États-Unis occuperait une place prépondérante dans l'imaginaire des Américains. La statue de la Liberté doit son existence à la rencontre de deux hommes : Édouard de Laboulaye, intellectuel français qui s'intéresse beaucoup à la politique américaine, et Auguste Bartholdi, sculpteur alsacien dont les travaux commencent alors à être reconnus. Laboulaye a l'idée de faire un grand geste envers l'Amérique pour marquer avec éclat le centenaire de l'indépendance américaine et de construire une statue monumentale scellant l'amitié entre la France et les États-Unis. Entamée en 1875, cette construction durera plus de dix ans. Edward Berenson retrace avec son regard d'historien américain mais aussi de fin connaisseur de l'histoire culturelle française, le périple de cette aventure, des difficultés financières au scepticisme des gouvernements de part et d'autre de l'Atlantique jusqu'à ce que la ténacité de quelques-uns vienne à bout de toutes ces vicissitudes. Il nous livre également sa réflexion sur les diverses interprétations que la statue de la Liberté a pu inspirer, traductions de son universalité ; d'aucuns peuvent y voir l'émancipation des esclaves, la liberté individuelle chère à Tocqueville ou encore les « déshérités » décrits dans le poème gravé d'Emma Lazarus : Donne-moi tes pauvres, tes exténués Qui en rangs serrés aspirent à vivre libres Le rebut de tes rivages surpeuplés, Envoie-les moi, les déshérités, que la tempête me les apporte De ma lumière, j'éclaire la porte d'or ! Depuis le 11 Septembre, la statue de la Liberté incarne plus que jamais la liberté et la résilience des États-Unis face à la terreur sans pour autant abdiquer sa vocation à l'universalité.
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Conceived in the aftermath of the American Civil War and the grief that swept France over the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the Statue of Liberty has been a potent symbol of the nation's highest ideals since it was unveiled in 1886. Dramatically situated on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in the harbor of New York City, the statue has served as a reminder for generations of immigrants of America's long tradition as an asylum for the poor and the persecuted. Although it is among the most famous sculptures in the world, the story of its creation is little known. In Enlightening the World, Yasmin Sabina Khan provides a fascinating new account of the design of the statue and the lives of the people who created it, along with the tumultuous events in France and the United States that influenced them. Khan's narrative begins on the battlefields of Gettysburg, where Lincoln framed the Civil War as a conflict testing whether a nation "conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal . . . can long endure." People around the world agreed with Lincoln that this question-and the fate of the Union itself-affected the "whole family of man. "Inspired by the Union's victory and stunned by Lincoln's death, Édouard-René Lefebvre de Laboulaye, a legal scholar and noted proponent of friendship between his native France and the United States, conceived of a monument to liberty and the exemplary form of government established by the young nation. For Laboulaye and all of France, the statue would be called La Liberté Éclairant le Monde-Liberty Enlightening the World. Following the statue's twenty-year journey from concept to construction, Khan reveals in brilliant detail the intersecting lives that led to the realization of Laboulaye's dream: the Marquis de Lafayette; Alexis de Tocqueville; the sculptor Auguste Bartholdi, whose commitment to liberty and self-government was heightened by his experience of the Franco-Prussian War; the architect Richard Morris Hunt, the first American to study architecture at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts in Paris; and the engineer Gustave Eiffel, who pushed the limits for large-scale metal construction. Also here are the contributions of such figures as Senators Charles Sumner and Carl Schurz, the artist John La Farge, the poet Emma Lazarus, and the publisher Joseph Pulitzer. While exploring the creation of the statue, Khan points to possible sources-several previously unexamined-for the design. She links the statue's crown of rays with Benjamin Franklin's image of the rising sun and makes a clear connection between the broken chain under Lady Liberty's foot and the abolition of slavery. Through the rich story of this remarkable national monument, Enlightening the World celebrates both a work of human accomplishment and the vitality of liberty.
Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.) --- Monuments --- History. --- Design and construction. --- Bartholdi, Frédéric Auguste, --- New York (N.Y.) --- United States --- France --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Relations
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Bartholdi, Frédéric Auguste, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- New York (N.Y.) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Bartholdi, Frédéric Auguste --- Criticism and interpretation --- Bartholdi, Frédéric Auguste --- 1834-1904 --- Criticism and interpretation --- New York (N.Y.) --- Buildings, structures, etc --- Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.)
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