Horatio Grennough and the Form Majestic
The Biography of the Nation's First Washington Monument
$80.01
- Hardcover
266 pages
- Release Date
16 March 2020
Summary
Art, history, and political drama all meld together in this one dramatic story about one dramatic sculpture.Art, history, and political drama all meld together in this one dramatic story about one dramatic sculpture.The nation’s first federally-commissioned monument, Horatio Greenough’s huge marble statue of George Washington, sits near the entrance of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Meant to be the symbolic focus of the whole continent–at the very center of the US Capi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781944466299 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1944466290 |
| Author: | Harry Rand |
| Publisher: | Smithsonian Books |
| Imprint: | Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 266 |
| Release Date: | 16 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 1.16kg |
| Dimensions: | 285mm x 216mm |
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About The Author
Harry Rand
Harry Rand serves as Senior Curator, Cultural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. He was formerly Chairman, Department of 20th Century Painting and Sculpture, National Museum of American Art. He has authored or co-authored more than thirteen books and fifty articles on art, culture, poetry, and theology.
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