The Nation's First Monument and the Origins of the American Memorial Tradition

Download or read book The Nation's First Monument and the Origins of the American Memorial Tradition written by Professor Sally Webster and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The commemorative tradition in early American art is considered for the first time in Sally Webster's fascinating study of public monuments and the construction of an American patronymic tradition. Until now, no attempt has been made to create a coherent early history of the carved symbolic language of American liberty and independence. Webster's study provides a new focus on New York City as the eighteenth-century city in which the European tradition of public commemoration was reconstituted as monuments to liberty's heroes.