Book Review: A new biography of Daniel Chester French recounts the life of the man who captured President Lincoln in marble
It is a thing as rare as it is welcome—an authoritative book about a visual artist that is both well written and jargon free, and that seamlessly addresses a professional audience as well as the general reader. Just such a book is what the historian Harold Holzer has given us in “Monument Man: The Life and Art of Daniel Chester French.”
The order of nouns in Mr. Holzer’s subtitle announces the priority of biography over art. Although this is a book about a sculptor—one of our country’s most accomplished—it is not an art...
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