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Review: Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape by Kirk Savage

2013; University of California Press; Volume: 72; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/jsah.2013.72.2.250

2150-5926

Therese O’Malley,

Archaeology and Natural History

Book Review| June 01 2013 Review: Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape by Kirk Savage Kirk SavageMonument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial LandscapeBerkeley: University of California Press, 2009, x + 390 pp., 126 b/w illus. $34.95, ISBN 9780520256545 Therese O’Malley Therese O’Malley 1Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2013) 72 (2): 250–253. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2013.72.2.250 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Therese O’Malley; Review: Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape by Kirk Savage. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 June 2013; 72 (2): 250–253. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2013.72.2.250 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search Dell Upton’s groundbreaking 1984 essay “Black and White Landscapes in Eighteenth-Century Virginia” opens with a simply stated observation: “For me, one of the most engaging problems in architectural history is to understand the social experience of architecture.”1 This mind-expanding approach to the study of the built environment prompted a new chapter in architectural history that continues to include not only industrial buildings but also spaces and grounds, interior and exterior, and marks on the landscape such as monuments. Nearly three decades later Kirk Savage’s most recent book, Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape, carries on this inclusive consideration of American space with another watershed publication that deals also with a Virginian-Maryland landscape of Washington, D.C., and specifically the National Mall. In his synthetic history of Washington’s memorial landscape, Savage identifies basic issues of monumentalization from Pierre Charles L’Enfant’s efforts in... You do not currently have access to this content.