Harriet F Senie

Monumental Controversies

Mount Rushmore, Four Presidents, and the Quest for National Unity

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Produktbeschreibung

Amid modern-day racial unrest, a national pandemic, and a political divisiveness that seems to have become a dominant feature of American discourse, Harriet F. Senie offers a thoughtful reflection on the complex legacies of the four presidents memorialized on Mount Rushmore.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 148mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781640124998
• ISBN-10: 1640124993
• Artikelnr.: 64695424

Autorenporträt

Harriet F. Senie is a professor emerita of art history at the City College of New York and at the CUNY Graduate Center. She co-founded Public Art Dialogue, an international organization, and its journal, Public Art Dialogue. Senie is the coeditor of Teachable Monuments: Using Public Art to Spark Dialogue and Confront Controversy and author of Memorials to Shattered Myths: Vietnam to 9/11, among other books.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
1. The Land of the Lakota Sioux
2. Gutzon Borglum’s Mount Rushmore
3. George Washington Imagined
4. George Washington’s Mixed Messages
5. Thomas Jefferson’s Architectural Monuments
6. Thomas Jefferson’s Complicated Legacy
7. Abraham Lincoln Commemorated
8. Abraham Lincoln’s Evolution
9. Theodore Roosevelt’s Problematic Memorials
10. Theodore Roosevelt’s Contradictory Policies
Conclusion
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index