Creating Central Park. Morrison H. Heckscher

Creating Central Park



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Creating Central Park Morrison H. Heckscher ebook
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page: 76
ISBN: 9780300136692


The year 2008 marks the 150th anniversary of the design of Central Park, the first and arguably the most famous of America’s urban landscape parks. In October 1857 the new park’s board of commissioners announced a public design competition, and the following April the imaginative yet practicable "Greensward” plan submitted by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted was selected. This book tells the fascinating story of how an extraordinary work of public art emerged from the crucible of New York City politics. From William Cullen Bryant’s 1844 editorial calling for "a pleasure ground of shade and recreation” to the completion of construction...

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