The Illustrated Harvard

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Published to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the natioris oldest college THE ILLUSTRATED HARVARD: Harvard University in Wood Engravings and Words by Michael McCurdy "Michael McCurdy's luminous, deceptively straightforward wood engravings offer a convenient walking tour of bricks-and-mortar Harvard." - Justin Kaplan, from the Foreword Founded just sixteen years after the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, Harvard has grown through three-and-a-half centuries intő one of the world's major eenters of research and higher education. This collection of twenty-five exquisite wood engravings shows just how the university's architecture has evolved through those centuries. Arranged in walking-tour order, here are handsome examples of the many schools, halls, libraries, and museums that make up the Harvard of today, including: Massachusetts Hall, built in 1720, which served as a barracks for Washington's troops Widener Library, one of the world's largest, with well over three millión books... Tovább

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Published to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the natioris oldest college THE ILLUSTRATED HARVARD: Harvard University in Wood Engravings and Words by Michael McCurdy "Michael McCurdy's luminous, deceptively straightforward wood engravings offer a convenient walking tour of bricks-and-mortar Harvard." - Justin Kaplan, from the Foreword Founded just sixteen years after the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, Harvard has grown through three-and-a-half centuries intő one of the world's major eenters of research and higher education. This collection of twenty-five exquisite wood engravings shows just how the university's architecture has evolved through those centuries. Arranged in walking-tour order, here are handsome examples of the many schools, halls, libraries, and museums that make up the Harvard of today, including: Massachusetts Hall, built in 1720, which served as a barracks for Washington's troops Widener Library, one of the world's largest, with well over three millión books Harvard Stádium, one of the earliest examples of the large-scale use of reinforced concrete and The Elizabeth Cary Agassiz House in Radcliffe Yard, named for Radcliffe College's first president
This volume presents the university as seen through the eyes of one remarkable artist. Michael McCurdy sketched and photographed every scene, engraved the wood blocks, researched and wrote the text, designed the book, and set the type for this extraordinary tribute. Working with special tools on one-inchhigh endgrain wood blocks, McCurdy spent more than forty hours on each engraving. For somé, the tour will evoke fond memories. For others, it will serve as a graceful introduction to the "living museum of American architecture" that is Harvard. "McCurdy is the consummate wood engraver. Harvard's fair variety suits his probing burirt to a nicety." - Leonard Baskin, artist "With McCurdy's vivid and precise engravings to celebrate its diversity, Harvard has falién into skillful hands." - Maxine Kumin, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet "With his singular sensitivity, [McCurdy] has caught the quality of light and shadow which distinguishes the architecture and the education at Harvard." - Thomas Boylston Adams, histórián Michael McCurdy's talent. . . will delight both the admirer of Harvard and the admirer of wood engraving." - Rodney Armstrong, Director, Boston Athenaeum Vissza