War as Spectacle: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Display of Armed Conflict by Anastasia Bakogianni & Valerie M. Hope

Author:Anastasia Bakogianni & Valerie M. Hope [Bakogianni, Anastasia & Hope, Valerie M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: history, Ancient, General, Rome, Literary Criticism, Ancient & Classical, art, Comparative Literature
ISBN: 9781472527554
Google: hwhkCgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-10-22T23:53:56.674262+00:00

Placement in the landscape

The placement of the arch in the landscape was particularly striking. On a practical level, its erection at the entrance to Washington Square Park rather than at Eighth Street across Fifth Avenue did not impede pedestrian traffic, which was an important consideration (see Fig. 12.2). The placement of the arch at the entrance to Washington Square Park was also a better visual outcome. Historical photographs show that it provided a monumental entrance to the park even when traffic still passed through (Fig. 12.8). The arch also dominates the park from the south. From the north, Fifth Avenue and its four lanes of traffic now terminate at the foot of the arch. This change was proposed in March 1935, in a letter by Amyar Embury, who was the consulting architect of the Parks Department, to Lawrence White of McKim, Mead and White (Archive-NYHS).

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