What makes an effective tribute? What makes a memorable memorial? Via half a dozen sculptures in Battery Park, New York City, this essay provides lessons that can be applied to a memorial for the World Trade Center.
Dianne L. Durante Libros
Impulsado por una adicción de toda la vida a la escritura, este autor canaliza una curiosidad sin límites para explorar los reinos del arte y la historia. Comparte su deleite en estos temas a través de una prosa atractiva, invitando a los lectores a descubrir ideas fascinantes. Su obra se caracteriza por un enfoque apasionado, cuyo objetivo es encender un entusiasmo similar por el aprendizaje y la exploración en otros. Cada pieza es una invitación a adentrarse en el mundo a través de los ojos de un ávido investigador.
Artist-Entrepreneurs: Saint Gaudens, MacMonnies, and Parrish
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In the late 19th and early 20th century, the most capitalistic era in American history, it was considered normal that the immense popularity of Augustus Saint Gaudens, Frederick MacMonnies and Maxfield Parrish should earn them substantial wealth. Saint Gaudens was (and still is) regarded as America's foremost sculptor. MacMonnies' annual income in the mid-1890s reputedly reached $300,000 (about $7.5 million today). In 1925, one of every four American homes had a print of Maxfield Parrish's *Daybreak*. These artist-entrepreneurs flourished by exceptional ability, hard work, and savvy marketing. This book gives a brief overview of the life and notable works of Saint Gaudens, MacMonnies, and Parrish, within the historical, political, and economic framework of the period between the Civil War and World War I. If you enjoy hearing about intelligent, hard-working, innovative, highly skilled and profit-minded men making piles of money by creating beautiful works of art, then this book is for you.