Bells for America - The Cold War, Modernism, and the Netherlands Carillon in Arlington

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.

About the author

Diederik Oostdijk is Professor of English Literature at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the author of Among the Nightmare Fighters: American Poets of World War II and coeditor of Tales of the Great American Victory: World War II Politics and Poetics.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Diederik Oostdijk, Diederik (Professor of English Literature Oostdijk
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.09.2019
• EAN: 9780271083773
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08377-3
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 726 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Refiguring Modernism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Amerikanische Geschichte, Geschichte der Architektur, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Virginia, Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Landmarks & Monuments, ART / Public Art, ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-), History of Architecture, History of the Americas, Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings