The Grandest Madison Square Garden: Art, Scandal, and Architecture in Gilded Age New York Contributor(s): Hinman, Suzanne (Author) |
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ISBN: 0815611102 ISBN-13: 9780815611103 Publisher: Syracuse University Press OUR PRICE: $35.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Architecture | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) - History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa) - Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers |
Dewey: 720.103 |
LCCN: 2019004384 |
Series: New York State |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 8.4" W x 9.3" (1.70 lbs) 468 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: November 1891, the heart of Gilded Age Manhattan. Thousands filled the streets surrounding Madison Square, fingers pointing, mouths agape. After countless struggles, Stanford White--the country's most celebrated architect was about to dedicate America's tallest tower, the final cap set atop his Madison Square Garden, the country's grandest new palace of pleasure. Amid a flood of electric light and fireworks, the gilded figure topping the tower was suddenly revealed--an eighteen-foot nude sculpture of Diana, the Roman Virgin Goddess of the Hunt, created by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the country's finest sculptor and White's dearest pal. |