Brooklyn Arcadia

Art, History, and Nature at Majestic Green-Wood

Andrew Garn, Richard Moylan (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2023
Rizzoli International Publications (Verlag)
978-0-8478-7324-1 (ISBN)

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The New York City treasure, newly photographed, is revealed as garden in the city, repository for memory, and a place for repose, inspiration, and delight. Green-Wood is a living cemetery that brings people closer to the world by memorializing the dead even as it embraces the art, history, and natural beauty of New York. Founded in 1838 and now a National Historic Landmark, Green-Wood was one of the first rural cemeteries in America. By the early 1860s, it had earned an international reputation for its beauty, attracting 500,000 visitors a year, second only to Niagara Falls as the nation s greatest tourist attraction. Crowds flocked here to enjoy family outings in the finest of first-generation American landscapes. Green-Wood s popularity helped inspire the creation of public parks, including New York City s Central and Prospect parks. Green-Wood is 478 spectacular acres of hills, valleys, glacial ponds, and paths, throughout which exists one of the largest outdoor collections of nineteenth- and twentieth-century statuary and mausoleums. Four seasons of beauty offer a peaceful oasis to visitors, as well as its 570,000 permanent residents, including Leonard Bernstein, Boss Tweed, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Louis Comfort Tiffany. At once a celebration and an invitation, the book ranges from a consideration of the natural landscape in which it is set to a close look at its architecture, statuary, symbols, typography, birds and fauna, trees, and typography.

Andrew Garn is a fine art and editorial photographer whose recent books for Rizzoli include New York Deco: Birds, Beasts & Blooms and New York by Neighborhood. Richard J. Moylan is president of Green-Wood Cemetery. Thomas J. Campanella is associate professor and director of undergraduate studies at Cornell University.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.08.2023
Zusatzinfo	150 Color Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	254 x 305 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
ISBN-10	0-8478-7324-2 / 0847873242
ISBN-13	978-0-8478-7324-1 / 9780847873241
Zustand	Neuware