I could literally listen to you guys all day! What a fantastic channel. It's brought back my interest and love for art. Thank you professors Elizabeth and Steven!

Perhaps the best broadcasting network on the internet on art and civilisations, a guarantee of a better understanding, respect between human beings with the discovery others great cultures, describing and admiring works of art, to see what mankind can do at its bets, a need in this troubled time. A little wish, put please if it's possible, some appropriate music (the supreme art) with the comments (or with only the pictures) without disturbing the intelligibility of the comments, always relevant. Greetings from France.

Don't forget the broken shackles at here feet. Often overlooked but very important. The irony nowadays is that the U.S. is no longer the shiney example it once was...

Long live the French !! Fascinating the cooperation between two nations without the aid of Internet. Takes me to a different time..

My fondest memories are seeing her lit up at night and passing by so close on the Staten Island ferry ❤❤❤

...and that is why it is not an ordinary statue. It has become a HOLY statue that is loved and worshipped by people of the world, especially people in oppressed countries such as China, North Korea, Vietnam,..., even Russia.

What a fascinating backstory! I knew the SoL was a gift from France, but I just imagined it being completed and transported to us - not being in pieces and needing financing. In a way, I think it's poetic that there needed to be a unified effort to make this gift happen. I've definitely never seen much of the base (nevermind the interior's pylons), so that was cool to learn about too. What an inspiring video. 🙂

@smarthistory-art-history

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Yeah, its such a great story.

@Sasha0927

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@@smarthistory-art-history Especially when told by you guys. I tell everyone about Smarthistory. 🥰

Mother of Exiles. May she long be.

Great video I have to say

I now feel sorry for anyone that travels with me to the Statue of Liberty, so much knowledge to unveil.

Do either Dr. Macaulay-Lewis or Dr. Zucker have an published works? I really admire their commentary and would love to read them.

@smarthistory-art-history

6 жыл бұрын

Nearly all Smarthistory contributors publish books and/or articles or have in the past. Dr. Macaulay-Lewis recently published two books. Here is one of them: global.oup.com/academic/product/housing-the-new-romans-9780190272333?cc=us&lang=en&

She's so beautiful 🙏

just like burne jones .. all of his figures, male and female represent some unconscious Phantasmic neo neo-classical .. ideal.

Nice!

She has shackles on her feet. This is a monument to freedom of slavery. That scowl is a scowl of oppression. Artists ....

@smarthistory-art-history

2 жыл бұрын

The chains at her feet lay broken, she is depicted unchained. And yes, as we note in the video, the initial conception is closely tied to the Abolitionist movement.

@PATexas

2 жыл бұрын

@@smarthistory-art-history then that is a statue of a black woman. Where in history they ever laid broken shackles at the feet of any other type ? Americans dark past is engraved in its symbol of freedom. The Irony is a mutha.

high res photos and plans: digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-0a31-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.ny1251.sheet/?sp=1&q=statue+of+liberty&st=grid www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/two-engravings-by-j-o-davidson-that-appeared-in-june-13-news-photo/640506867

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