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Linda Booth Sweeney - Monument Maker, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Monument Maker

Daniel Chester French and the Lincoln Memorial

Av Linda Booth Sweeney

Del i serien History Makers Series

309 kr

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This is the story of how a farmboy became America’s foremost sculptor. After failing at academics, Dan was working the family farm when he idly carved a turnip into a frog and discovered what he was meant to do. Sweeney’s swift prose and Fields’s evocative illustrations capture the single-minded determination with which Dan taught himself to sculpt and launched his career with the famous Minuteman Statue in his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts.  This is also the story of the Lincoln Memorial, French’s culminating masterpiece. Thanks to this lovingly created tribute to the towering leader of Dan’s youth, Abraham Lincoln lives on as the man of marble, his craggy face and careworn gaze reminding millions of seekers what America can be. Dan’s statue is no lifeless figure, but a powerful, vital touchstone of a nation’s ideals. Now Dan French has his tribute too, in this exquisite biography that brings history to life for young readers.
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Linda Booth Sweeney is an accomplishedwriter and an educator specializing in the exploration of living systems. Shawn Fields studied art at theSchool of Visual Arts, the Arts Student’s League, and the New York Academy ofArt. His work has been exhibited atArtBasel Miami, Forbes Gallery NYC, Arcadia NYC, and is collected worldwide.

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"Booklist Starred ReviewThe book’s broad pages offer plenty of space for the lucid main text and lively illustrations, which work together well. The writing features vignettes such as a memorable account of a turnip-carving experience that revealed French’s aptitude for sculpture as well as an informative account of the Lincoln Memorial project, its central statue, and its place in American life.Strong, graceful, and expressive, Fields' artwork captures the period setting while making even unnamed people look like individuals. Though color is used here and there, most of the illustrations are large,beautiful crosshatched pen-and-ink drawings in black and white. Appended information, notes, and photos conclude this engaging tribute to French and the Lincoln Memorial."

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