The Lincoln Memorial & American life
"Honoring perhaps the most celebrated and important president in history, the Lincoln Memorial is one of our most recognized national shrines. It seems impossible to envision the Mall in Washington, D.C. or national pageantry without it - yet the Lincoln Memorial was almost not built. From the project's inception, the memorial - a modified Greek temple designed by architect Henry Bacon - gave rise to charged cultural and aesthetic debate, including arguments about Modernism and Americanism. Christopher Thomas offers the first detailed analysis of Bacon's design and the memorial as a system, including the statue of Lincoln by Daniel Chester French. Using extensive archival data, Thomas discusses just why the memorial looks as it does."
Print Book, English, ©2002
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©2002
History
xxxii, 213 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780691011943, 069101194X
46959898
"Greatest American" : a memorial to Lincoln?
1902-1912 : "What shall the Lincoln Memorial be?"
Design : tradition, modernity, and Americanism
Constructing the memorial
The memorial in American life
English