Public Sculpture and the Civic Ideal in New York City, 1890-1930

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Public Sculpture and the Civic Ideal in New York City, 1890-1930 is written by Michele Helene Bogart and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0226063097 (ISBN 10) and 9780226063096 (ISBN 13).

Bogart's groundbreaking consideration of public art as a topic for serious scholarly consideration examines the sustained and organized effort to create in New York a body of municipal sculpture that would express the civic ideal: an urban vision of patriotism, civilization, and good government. It follows the brief movement through its rise and fall, attempting to explain why sponsorship for such civic projects lasted only for a limited time.