Research Catalog

Title

The Mall in Washington, 1791-1991 / edited by Richard Longstreth.

Publication

Washington : National Gallery of Art ; Hanover : Distributed by the University Press of New England, 1991.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Longstreth, Richard W.
• Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (U.S.)

Description

328 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 28 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in the history of art, 0091-7338 ; 30. Symposium papers ; 14

Uniform Title

• Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) ; 30.
• Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.). Symposium papers ; 14.

Subject

• City planning > Washington (D.C.) > History > Congresses
• Buildings
• City planning
• Arquitetura Paisagistica
• Urbanisme > États-Unis > Washington (D.C.) > Histoire > Congrès
• Mall, The (Washington, D.C.) > History > Congresses
• Washington (D.C.) > Buildings, structures, etc. > Congresses
• Washington (D.C.)
• Washington (D.C.) > The Mall
• Washington (D.C.) > Mall, The > Histoire > Congrès
• Washington (D.C.) > Constructions

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Note

• "Proceedings of the symposium, "The Mall in Washington, 1791-1991", sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, and the American Architectural Foundation of the American Institute of Architects, 30 and 31 October 1987."--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Preface / Henry A. Millon -- Introduction : Change and continuity on the Mall / Richard Longstreth -- Monumental spaces / Norma Evenson -- "This vast empire" : The iconography of the Mall, 1791-1848 / Pamela Scott -- "A public museum of trees" : Mid nineteenth century plans for the Mall / Therese O'Malley -- The imperial Mall : The city beautiful movement and the Washington Plan of 1901-1902 / Thomas S. Hines -- The Mall, the McMillan Plan, and the origins of American city planning / Jon A. Peterson -- The Olmsteds and the landscape of the Mall / David C. Streatfield -- High noon on the Mall : Modernism versus traditionalism, 1910-1970 / Richard Guy Wilson -- The Mall and the Commission of Fine Arts / J. Carter Brown -- A tememos for democracy : The Mall in Washington and its influence / Robert A.M. Stern with Raymond W. Gastil -- The designing of the National Gallery of Art's East Building / J. Carter Brown -- A critical look at the McMillan Plan / Daniel Urban Kiley -- Issues relative to the Mall in designing the National Air and Space Museum / Gyo Obata -- Smithsonian Institution : South Quadrangle Project / Jean Paul Carlihan.

ISBN

• 0894681389
• 9780894681387

LCCN

91220411

OCLC

• ocm23878211
• 23878211
• SCSB-8416402

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library