Livres sur Monument : extraits et sélection commentée

Voir des extraits

The Story of a Monument. A Tale of Clerical Intolerance ...

187488 pages

Extrait : ... monument was very far from being an " eyesore . " " That he had no right to move monuments merely because they did not agree with his taste ; that it was an assumption to say that monuments were out of place at the east end ; that to ... ...

Voir des extraits

The Monument’s End

Princeton University Press2024-10-15248 pages

How today’s questions surrounding monuments and the ways we commemorate our past first arose in Rembrandt’s time Monuments occupy a controversial ...

Extrait : ... monument is undercut by its refusal of originality, its recourse to forms we already know. Nevertheless, to distinguish art and monument on aesthetic grounds alone does not get us very far. A cookie-cutter statue of a Confederate ... ...

Voir des extraits

Invisible Monuments

Simon and Schuster2026-10-20144 pages

“Howard Mansfield has never written an uninteresting or dull sentence. All of his books are emotionally and intellectually nourishing. He is somethi ...

Extrait : Tribute, Memory, and the Summoning of the Past Howard Mansfield. the stealth monument , commissioning it retrospectively . They even voted to rename the Schlossplatz , the Place of the Invisible Monument . But isn't that a sign we could ... ...

Voir des extraits

The Rude Stone Monuments of Ireland. (Co. Sligo and the Isla

1888310 pages

Extrait : ... Monument , Carrowmore . Ground Plan . ( Scale , 20 feet to 1 inc 5-6 . Front and Side View of Pierced Quartz Crystal ... Monument , Carrowmore , looking N.E. Extre height , 5 feet , .. 16. Ground Plan of No. 4 Monument , Carrowmore ... ...

Voir des extraits

Monuments and Monumental Inscriptions in Scotland

1871566 pages

Extrait : ... monument on the Calton Hill next claims attention . This structure consists of a circular tower on an octagonal basement , which together are upwards of one hundred feet in height. * In preparing an account of Sir Walter Scott's monument ... ...

Voir des extraits

Stone

1894618 pages

Extrait : ... monument is to be of granite , tri - angular , twenty - four feet high and nine feet at the base , the center shaft being also triangular . The monument will be ready for unveiling on Memorial Day , 1896. A large proportion of the money ... ...