Introduction: the figurative tradition -- Beaux-arts symbiosis: architecture and the human figure -- A new perspective on the nature of public monuments -- Selected monuments to the great and the small -- Highlights of the equestrian monument in America -- Sentries, doughboys, and GI Joes -- Insights into the American portrait -- The art of the medal -- The first Americans remembered -- Everyday people doing everyday things -- Twentieth-century transfigurations.
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