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Podcast: New Books in Art
Episode: Harold Holzer, "Monument Man: The Life and Art of Daniel Chester French" (Princeton Architectural Press, 2019)
Description: Harold Holzer has written a biography of one of America’s greatest public artists of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, Daniel Chester French. In Monument Man: The Life and Art of Daniel Chester French (Princeton Architectural Press, 2019), Holzer chronicles the career of French, who became best known for his sculpture of Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. French was born in 1850 and became one of the most sought after sculptors of portraits and thematic sculptures in America. Holzer reveals French’s methods of creation and execution of his sculptural commissions, which included many notable works b...