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Bells for America : the Cold War, modernism, and the Netherlands Carillon in Arlington / Diederik Oostdijk.
Fine Arts Library NA9350.A7 O59 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oostdijk, Diederik, 1972- author.
- Series:
- Refiguring modernism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Netherlands Carillon (Va.)--History.
- Netherlands Carillon (Va.).
- Cold War.
- Relations.
- History.
- United States--Relations--Netherlands--History--20th century.
- United States.
- Netherlands--Relations--United States--History--20th century.
- Netherlands.
- International relations.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 239 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press [2019]
- Summary:
- "Recounts the history of the Netherlands Carillon, given to the United States in the 1950s by the Dutch government, and explores its paradoxical placement in the American memorial landscape"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: forestroke
- Bells for America
- The smallest bell (1952)
- Casting the Carillon (1954)
- A modernist tower on the monumental axis (1960)
- A Cold War relic (1995)
- Conclusion: the echo of dissonance
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (223-230) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271083773
- 0271083778
- OCLC:
- 1096219573
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