Public Sculpture and the Civic Ideal in New York City: 1890-1930 Prints & Posters studies for her Aphrodite illustrations

studies for her Aphrodite illustrations

Marc Hempel

magazine & book covers

power and the building blocks of you

Signed by the artist and embossed with his personal blind stamp

Public Sculpture and the Civic Ideal in New York City: 1890-1930 Prints & Posters studies for her Aphrodite illustrationsFrom the Publisher: Bogart's groundbreaking consideration of public art as a topic for serious scholarly consideration examines the sustained and organized effort to create in New York a body of municipal sculpture that would express the civic ideal: an urban vision of patriotism, civilization, and good government. It follows the brief movement through its rise and fall, attempting to explain why sponsorship for such civic projects lasted only for a