[PDF] Chicagos Monuments Markers And Memorials eBook

Author : John Graf
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 34,24 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738520025

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Offers a look at Chicago's diverse commemorative monuments, markers, and memorials created by unknown artists and notables including Pablo Picasso, Louis Sullivan, and Lorado Taft.

Author : Margaret M. Kapustiak
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,91 MB
Release : 2014-11-03
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1439648182

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Established in 1879 on 111th Street in the Beverly area of Chicago, Mount Greenwood Cemetery is an open-air museum that reflects three centuries of history. The Victorian cemeterywith its large, decorative monuments set on a rolling landscape amid winding roadsis an oasis treasured by its neighbors and by families whose loved ones rest there. It is home to educators, artists, veterans, businessmen, social reformers, ministers, and everyday people. The grounds also host heroes who stepped up in a time of need and people who lost their lives in epidemics and horrific disasters. On any given day, joggers in colorful gear can be seen running past a group on a brisk morning walk. Signs announce an upcoming history program or 5K race. Workers plant flowers on the grounds, while family historians ponder the memorials. A Civil War group places markers on veterans tombstones. Members of a service organization walk to their monument, planning an event. A group of schoolchildren examines graves, and a journalist snaps a photograph.

Author : Larry Broutman
Publisher : Lake Claremont Press: A Chicago Joint
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,46 MB
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : 9781893121676

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Our Majestic Public Art--A gorgeous full-color photographic tribute to over 250 of the monuments, fountains, memorials, and statues in Chicago's parks and cemeteries, as well as those on the city's streets and buildings. The City of Big Shoulders is alive with public sculpture. Its monuments, memorials, fountains, gravemarkers, and architectural adornments, both celebratory and poignant, speak to us from storefronts and bridges, from parks and cemeteries, in the language of stone and bronze. Many were created by some of the past two centuries most revered sculptors and designers. In "Chicago Monumental," photographer and writer Larry Broutman again brings his unique vision to the page (his first book was "Chicago Unleashed"), presenting Chicago's monuments in a way that will deepen understanding of how a great city comes to be of the many complex human personalities and historical events that weave its texture and story. "Chicago Monumental" may be enjoyed as a visual history, as social documentary, as a guidebook to both familiar and little-known works, as a portable art gallery or as itself a piece of public sculpture. In the final sections, readers view a special selection of large images converted to 3D. (Folding cardboard 3D spectacles can be found in a pocket at the front of the book.) But even in two dimensions, the photographs in this book are imposing and completely real, fully able to stir and satisfy the curiosity of lifelong Chicagoans and visitors alike. All author proceeds are donated to The Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Disabled, and Access Living, Chicago-based nonprofit service agencies.