From Portraits to Puddles (eBook)

New York Memorails from the Civil War to the World Trade Center Memorial (Reflecting Absence)

Dianne L. Durante (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
158 Seiten
Dianne L. Durante (Verlag)
978-1-0882-0722-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Surely we can offer the victims of 9/11 a better tribute than Reflecting Absence, a gloomy piece of landscape architecture with lists of names. But what makes an effective tribute? What makes a memorable memorial? The sculptures in nearby Battery Park provide excellent examples of memorials dedicated over the past hundred years. This essay points out lessons from half a dozen of them that can be applied to a memorial for the World Trade Center - and explains how our memorials declined from portraits to puddles. Read it in the comfort of your armchair (about 250 photos are included) or go on a walking tour. Also included: an illustrated and annotated list of 30 memorials in Manhattan that are dedicated to people whose job is to keep us safe: soldiers, policemen, firemen, and so on.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.7.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Schlagworte: Battery Park • Civil War • New York City • Reflecting Absence • sculpture • War Memorials • World Trade Center Memorial
• ISBN-10: 1-0882-0722-7 / 1088207227
• ISBN-13: 978-1-0882-0722-2 / 9781088207222