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Book Synopsis MONUMENTAL CHICAGO by : DONALD KREHL
Download or read book MONUMENTAL CHICAGO written by DONALD KREHL and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-12-10 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding the statues and public art in Chicago has long been difficult. This guidebook will lead the reader to more than 240 sites and 170 artists from around the world in an easily carried book.
Book Synopsis Millennium Park by : Timothy J. Gilfoyle
Download or read book Millennium Park written by Timothy J. Gilfoyle and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Upon opening on July 16, 2004, Chicago's Millennium Park was hailed as one of the world's most important millennium projects. Timothy Gilfoyle's biography of this phenomenal undertaking begins over a hundred years ago - when the site of the park was still part of Lake Michigan - and takes readers right up to the present day. Drawing on the author's comprehensive understanding of Chicago history, interviews with planners, artists, and public officials; and careful documentation of the park's financing and construction, Millennium Park is a thoroughly readable and illustrated testament to the park, the city, and all those attempting to think and act on a global scale. And underlying this history are revelations about the globalization of art, the use of culture as an engine of economic expansion, and the nature of political and philanthropic power."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Chicago's Monuments, Markers, and Memorials by : John Graf
Download or read book Chicago's Monuments, Markers, and Memorials written by John Graf and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a look at Chicago's diverse commemorative monuments, markers, and memorials created by unknown artists and notables including Pablo Picasso, Louis Sullivan, and Lorado Taft.
Book Synopsis Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey by : Kathleen Rooney
Download or read book Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey written by Kathleen Rooney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Both heartbreaking and sharply funny...Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey is brilliant and surprising at every turn."--Rebecca Makkai, Pulitzer finalist for The Great Believers A heart-tugging and gorgeously written novel based on the incredible true story of a WWI messenger pigeon and the soldiers whose lives she forever altered, from the author of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk. From the green countryside of England and the gray canyons of Wall Street come two unlikely heroes: one a pigeon and the other a soldier. Answering the call to serve in the war to end all wars, neither Cher Ami, the messenger bird, nor Charles Whittlesey, the Army officer, can anticipate how their lives will briefly intersect in a chaotic battle in the forests of France, where their wills will be tested, their fates will be shaped, and their lives will emerge forever altered. A saga of hope and duty, love and endurance, as well as the claustrophobia of fame, Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey is a tragic yet life-affirming war story that the world has never heard. Inspired by true events of World War I, Kathleen Rooney resurrects two long-forgotten yet unforgettable figures, recounting their tale in a pair of voices that will change the way that readers look at animals, freedom, and even history itself.
Author :Larry Broutman Publisher :Lake Claremont Press: A Chicago Joint ISBN 13 :9781893121676 Total Pages :218 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (216 download)
Book Synopsis Chicago Monumental by : Larry Broutman
Download or read book Chicago Monumental written by Larry Broutman and published by Lake Claremont Press: A Chicago Joint. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Majestic Public Art--A gorgeous full-color photographic tribute to over 250 of the monuments, fountains, memorials, and statues in Chicago's parks and cemeteries, as well as those on the city's streets and buildings. The City of Big Shoulders is alive with public sculpture. Its monuments, memorials, fountains, gravemarkers, and architectural adornments, both celebratory and poignant, speak to us from storefronts and bridges, from parks and cemeteries, in the language of stone and bronze. Many were created by some of the past two centuries most revered sculptors and designers. In "Chicago Monumental," photographer and writer Larry Broutman again brings his unique vision to the page (his first book was "Chicago Unleashed"), presenting Chicago's monuments in a way that will deepen understanding of how a great city comes to be of the many complex human personalities and historical events that weave its texture and story. "Chicago Monumental" may be enjoyed as a visual history, as social documentary, as a guidebook to both familiar and little-known works, as a portable art gallery or as itself a piece of public sculpture. In the final sections, readers view a special selection of large images converted to 3D. (Folding cardboard 3D spectacles can be found in a pocket at the front of the book.) But even in two dimensions, the photographs in this book are imposing and completely real, fully able to stir and satisfy the curiosity of lifelong Chicagoans and visitors alike. All author proceeds are donated to The Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Disabled, and Access Living, Chicago-based nonprofit service agencies.
Book Synopsis Hidden Chicago Landmarks by : John R. Schmidt
Download or read book Hidden Chicago Landmarks written by John R. Schmidt and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I. Hidden Landmarks: Central and West; The Cowpath in the Loop; Dillinger Wannabe; Walt Disney Birthplace; Hef 's Galewood Homestead; Carl Sandburg's First House; Sam Giancana Home; Continental Divide; The Palace on 12th Street; Anton J. Cermak Home; St. Paul Catholic Church; Marquette Monolith; Clarence Wagner's Bridge; The Balbo Column; Who Is Buried in Logan's Tomb?; Part II. Hidden Landmarks: North; Fairbank Row Houses; Cider House Story; Gloria Swanson's Many Chicago Homes; The Vice President from Evanston; The Leaning Tower of Niles; Hillary's Home; Bring 'Em Back Alive; Chicago's Oldest House?; Robinson Family Graves; The Ground 'L'; Chicago's Shortest Street; Red Emma's Hideout; The Nazi Saboteur on Fremont Street; The Tomb in the Park; Part III. Hidden Landmarks: South; Bet-a-Million; Joe Louis Home; The O'Leary Himself; The Senator and the Pineapple; Al Capone Home; Mahalia Jackson Home; Chicago's Oldest Public Monument; The Real "Christmas Story" House; The Enchanted Lake; Chicago's Smallest Cemetery; The Richest Black Man in America; Marxism on the Grand Boulevard; A Forgotten Home of Clarence Darrow; Daley Family Home; Part IV. Lost Landmarks; Ronald Reagan's Chicago Home; Edgewater Beach Hotel; The Original Old St. Mary's; Peter Hand Brewery; The Houses that Jimmy Built; The Wandering Monument; Henry W. Rincker House; The Gold Coast Caverns; Archer-35th Recreation; Western-Belmont Overpass; Part V. Drive-By Neighborhoods; Albany Park; Cicero; Englewood; Hegewisch; Mount Greenwood; Portage Park; Rogers Park; West Garfield Park.
Book Synopsis Living Landmarks of Chicago by : Theresa L. Goodrich
Download or read book Living Landmarks of Chicago written by Theresa L. Goodrich and published by The Local Tourist. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the man shipped home in a rum barrel to the most dangerous woman in America, Chicago history comes to life in these tantalizing tales. Living Landmarks of Chicago goes beyond the what, when, and where to tell the how and why of fifty Chicago landmarks. More than a book about architecture, these are stories of the people who made Chicago and many of its most popular tourist attractions what they are today. Each chapter is a vignette that introduces the landmark and brings it to life, and the book is organized chronologically to illustrate the development of the city's distinct personality. These fifty landmarks weave an interconnected tale of Chicago between 1836 and 1932 (and beyond). History lines Chicago’s sidewalks. Stroll down LaSalle or Dearborn or State and you’ll see skyscrapers that have been there for a century or more. It’s easy to scurry by, to dismiss the building itself, but a hunt for placards turns up landmarks every few feet, it seems. Here’s a Chicago landmark; there’s a National Historic landmark. They’re everywhere. Ironically, these skyscrapers keep the city grounded; they illustrate a past where visionaries took fanciful, impossible ideas and made them reality. Buildings sinking? Raise them. River polluting the lake and its precious drinking water? Reverse it. Overpopulation and urban sprawl making it challenging to get to work? Build up. From the bare to the ornate, from exposed beams to ornamented facades, the city’s architecture is unrestrainedly various yet provides a cohesive, beautiful skyline that illustrates the creativity of necessity, and the necessity of creativity. After a sound-bite history of the city’s origins, you’ll meet the oldest house in Chicago—or is it? Kinda. Sorta. Depends on who you ask. That’s Chicago. Nothing’s simple, and nothing can be taken for granted. The reason the city has a gorgeous skyline and a vibrant culture and a notorious reputation for graft is because of those who built it, envisioned it, manipulated it. Add Living Landmarks of Chicago to your cart and see what made Chicago so very...Chicago.
Book Synopsis Hidden Chicago Landmarks by : John R. Schmidt
Download or read book Hidden Chicago Landmarks written by John R. Schmidt and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take in the sights of Chicago's forgotten byways, including a cow trail through a downtown hotel. Pause reflectively at the cemetery in a working scrapyard and the church built without a nail. Stop by the one-time homes of Walt Disney, Joe Louis, Hillary Clinton and Al Capone. Along the way, greet forgotten Chicago notables like the vice president who won a Nobel Prize and wrote a number-one pop hit. From the shortest street to the oldest house, John R. Schmidt visits the sites of Chicago's neglected history.
Download or read book The Monumental News written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade by : Robert S. Nelson
Download or read book Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade written by Robert S. Nelson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining how monuments preserve memory, these essays demonstrate how phenomena as diverse as ancient drum towers in China and ritual whale killings in the Pacific Northwest serve to represent and negotiate time.
Book Synopsis Building Histories by : Mrinalini Rajagopalan
Download or read book Building Histories written by Mrinalini Rajagopalan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building Histories offers innovative accounts of five medieval monuments in Delhi—the Red Fort, Rasul Numa Dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana Qila, and the Qutb complex—tracing their modern lives from the nineteenth century into the twentieth. Mrinalini Rajagopalan argues that the modern construction of the history of these monuments entailed the careful selection, manipulation, and regulation of the past by both the colonial and later postcolonial states. Although framed as objective “archival” truths, these histories were meant to erase or marginalize the powerful and persistent affective appropriations of the monuments by groups who often existed outside the center of power. By analyzing these archival and affective histories together, Rajagopalan works to redefine the historic monument—far from a symbol of a specific past, the monument is shown in Building Histories to be a culturally mutable object with multiple stories to tell.
Book Synopsis Address at the Laying of the Corner-stone of the Douglas Monument at Chicago, September 6, 1866 by : John Adams Dix
Download or read book Address at the Laying of the Corner-stone of the Douglas Monument at Chicago, September 6, 1866 written by John Adams Dix and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Giants in the Park, Second Edition by : Krista August
Download or read book Giants in the Park, Second Edition written by Krista August and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Giants in the Park" is a history guide for the monuments in Chicago's Lincoln Park. Giants encountered with this walking tour guidebook include Lincoln, LaSalle, Grant, Sheridan, Schiller, Goethe, Altgeld ... seventeen portrait statues in all. Missing monuments and salient park history are documented as well. Lincoln the Man is the most important statue on the tour and is a masterpiece of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the ranking American sculptor of his era. Saint-Gaudens' Lincoln was groundbreaking when unveiled in 1887. With the inclusion of the classical chair behind the standing Lincoln and with its elaborate base designed by architect Stanford White, it is much more than the typical portrait statue. Of all the park's monuments, our LaSalle bronze is the most significant to Chicago's history. At it's unveiling in 1889, LaSalle was celebrated as the man "to whose geographical discoveries American civilization owes a heavy debt." After being the first white-man to travel the full-length of the Mississippi River in 1682, LaSalle returned to the Chicago portage the following winter, where in his journal, he predicted the rise of a great city. The history behind each and every monument is unique and exciting. Throughout the book, interesting connections exist, to a wide variety of topics and early Chicago personalities: the Columbian Exposition of 1893, the Haymarket affair, the Great Chicago Fire, the Civil War, early Chicago ethnic groups, the park's cemetery years, Charles Yerkes, Frances Willard, Mayor Carter Harrison and much more. Lincoln Park's monumental art invites us to explore the old: to study the heroes of our Chicago forefathers; and through examining the realization of their likenesses, to glimpse moments and ideals from our great city's youth.
Book Synopsis Living Landmarks of Chicago by : Theresa L. Goodrich
Download or read book Living Landmarks of Chicago written by Theresa L. Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living Landmarks of Chicago goes beyond the what, when, and where to tell the how and why of Chicago landmarks. From the parlor used as a meat locker to the fight over the Field Museum, history comes to life in this collection of tantalizing tales and skyscraper stories. In this dive into history, Emmy-winning author Theresa L. Goodrich tells the stories of fifty landmarks in Chicago. Each chapter is a vignette that introduces the landmark and brings it to life, and the book is organized chronologically to illustrate the development of the city's distinct personality.
Book Synopsis Monumental News; Devoted to Monumental and Kindred Interests by :
Download or read book Monumental News; Devoted to Monumental and Kindred Interests written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Monumental News; Devoted to Monumental and Kindred Interests by :
Download or read book Monumental News; Devoted to Monumental and Kindred Interests written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Monumental Challenge of Preservation by : Michele Valerie Cloonan
Download or read book The Monumental Challenge of Preservation written by Michele Valerie Cloonan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enormous task of preserving the world's heritage in the face of war, natural disaster, vandalism, neglect, and technical obsolescence. The monuments—movable, immovable, tangible, and intangible—of the world's shared cultural heritage are at risk. War, terrorism, natural disaster, vandalism, and neglect make the work of preservation a greater challenge than it has been since World War II. In The Monumental Challenge of Preservation Michèle Cloonan makes the case that, at this critical juncture, we must consider preservation in the broadest possible contexts. Preservation requires the efforts of an increasing number of stakeholders. In order to explore the cultural, political, technological, economic, and ethical dimensions of preservation, Cloonan examines particular monuments and their preservation dilemmas. The massive Bamiyan Buddhas, blown up by the Taliban in 2001, are still the subject of debates over how, or whether, to preserve what remains, and the U. S. National Park Service has undertaken the complex task of preserving the symbolic and often ephemeral objects that visitors leave at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial—to take just two of the many examples described in the book. Cloonan also considers the ongoing genocide and cultural genocide in Syria; the challenges of preserving our digital heritage; the dynamic between original and copy; efforts to preserve the papers and architectural fragments of the architect Louis Sullivan; and the possibility of sustainable preservation. In the end, Cloonan suggests, we are what we preserve—and don't preserve. Every day we make preservation decisions, individually and collectively, that have longer-term ramifications than we might expect.
