Stan And Gus: Art, Ardor, And The Friendship That Built The Gilded Age

Stan And Gus: Art, Ardor, And The Friendship That Built The Gilded Age

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The Celebrated Architect Stanford White Was A Louche ManAboutTown And A Canny Cultural Entrepreneur, The Creator Of Landmarks That Raised The Stature Of The American Built Environment. Augustus SaintGaudens, A Sculptor And The Son Of An Immigrant Shoemaker, Was A Moody Introvert And A Committed Procrastinator Whose Painstaking Work Brought Emotional Depth To American Statuary. Over Years Of Acquaintance, Their Relationship Evolved Into A Partnership That Defined The Art Of The Gilded Age.In Stan And Gus, The Acclaimed Historian Henry Wiencek Tells The Story Of A Fruitful, Complicated Relationship. After Pursuing Their Own Careers In Italy And France, The Two Men Met Again Back Home, Where They Forged EraDefining Monuments, Including WhiteS Washington Square Arch And Park Avenue Armory In Manhattan And SaintGaudensS Memorials To Colonel Robert Gould Shaw And Clover Adams In Boston And Washington, D.C., Respectively. Over The Course Of Decades, White Helped Sustain His FriendS Troubled Spirits And Protected SaintGaudens From Impatient Clients When He Failed To Complete Projects On Time. Meanwhile, SaintGaudens Challenged White To Take His Artistic Gifts Seriously. But Alongside The Brilliant Commissions Were Sordid DebaucheriesAnd WhiteS Sensational Murder In 1906.Throughout, Wiencek Sets White And SaintGaudens Within The Larger Story Of The Era Known As The American Renaissance, When A New Upper Class Sought To Fortify Its Ascendancy, And Its Aspirations And Delusions Of Grandeur Collided With New Aesthetic Ideas And Two Ambitious Young Men To Yield Work Of Lasting Beauty.

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