Newport: The Artful City

A multi-layered view of Newport, Rhode Island, as an urban entity and a cultural site of national significance, focusing on its historical development.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 240 pages
\n Publication date: 05 October 2020
\n Publisher: D Giles Ltd
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This is a richly illustrated portrait of Newport, Rhode Island as a work of urban art, from colonial times to the present, both documented and celebrated in the maps, paintings, photographs, poetry and prose of renowned artists and writers. As one of the most historically intact cities in North America, Newport has a cultural and architectural heritage of national significance. Each of the city's districts has its own distinct character with street plans and buildings revealing the political, religious, commercial and artistic forces that have shaped Newport through the ages. Stately Colonial squares and bustling wharves, picturesque Victorian villas and scenic drives, opulent Gilded Age palaces for the few and electric streetcars for the many, and preservation movements to honor the past and modernist schemes for a metropolis of the future all tell stories of urban beauty and controversy, of eras of lavish building, urban decay and extraordinary revival.

AUTHOR: John R. Tschirch is the Newport Historical Society's architectural historian and visiting curator of Urban History. He is the author of Gods and Girls: Tales of Art, Seduction and Obsession (2019) and A Walking History of Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island (Walking History of America) (2013). John is presently an instructor in design history for Rhode Island School of Design CE, which presented him with the 2010 Excellence in Teaching Award, and he is adjunct faculty in art history at Bristol Community College, where his students provide endless inspiration and amusement. He is also the creator and author of .

\n Weight: 1532g\n
Dimension: 249 x 273 x 27 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781911282693\n \n