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Blow-Up: Photographic Projection, Dynamite, and the Sculpting of American Mountains
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
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The screen remained entirely black. “Night after night,” the American sculptor Gutzon Borglum (1867–1941), most famous for making Mount Rushmore, projected a two-and-a-half-inch glass slide ...
Author
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art
Copyright© 2016, Terra Foundation for American Art
Related print edition pages: pp.66-102
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00194.003
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19948
Chapter subject tags:Stone Mountain Memorial (Ga.)Mount Rushmore National Memorial (S.D.)Size perceptionSculpture--Technique

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Blow-Up: Photographic Projection, Dynamite, and the Sculpting of American Mountains