Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us: New fall talks and schedule for Joe Gallo "Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us" : lectures on Boston Monuments.

Thursday, May 23, 2013

New fall talks and schedule for Joe Gallo "Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us" : lectures on Boston Monuments.

On September 18, 2013 between 11.31AM and 1:00 pm Paula Ogier of the UMass Boston Osher Lifelong Institute of Learning , has asked me to give a talk about Boston's Bronze and Stone Monuments. All are welcomed!

Joe Gallo will be conducting a five week lecture course at the Beacon Hill Seminars school of learning. The Wednesdays between September 25, 2013 and October 23, 2013.

The course description and outline follow:

Session one
Overview of why Boston monuments, in particular, sculptures are important to us as Bostonians and Americans
Introduction to the survey of eighteen neighborhoods containing these works of art
Boston common: A closer look, America’s first public space; mapping and discussing the monuments within its boundaries
Open discuss of these bronze and stone with respect to Americas history and Boston’s art community
Commodore John Barry, Marque de Lafayette, Boston Massacre Monument. Edward Filenes stone, Robert Gould Shaw, frogs, etc..
Questions and discussions

Session two
Discussion of Boston public gardens with respect to the monuments within it.
A closer look at George Washington, Ether Monument, Triton Babies, Edward Everett Hale, William Ellery Channing, Thomas Cass, Wendell Phillips, etc..
Commonwealth ave neighborhood and its sculptures at every block with their relationship to the Back Bay concept of first planned residential, commercial and cultural neighborhood based on the French design and influence
In field:
Visit to king’s chapel, a museum of Americas first sculptures their significance for Boston’s, America’s history and for Americas art history
Visit to school street & old city hall outside monuments
Questions and discussions

Session three
Discussion of the sculptures and artisans of Copley place
The significance for both Boston and America. Respect to edifices surrounding this uniquely designed public space
In Field:
Visit to state house outside area and it’s monuments
Discussion of their historical significance and their creative artists

Session four
Downtown monuments their historical importance and their respective public space and architectural surrounding buildings
A closer look at the “Boston Bricks” sculpture, Robert Burns monument, The Aspiration of Freedom Monument, etc..
Discussion of humanism and Boston monuments
George Thorndike angel, Dorothea Dix, William Ellery Channing
Questions and discussion

Session five

Northend and waterfront monuments their historical importance to bostons’ past and future, oldest public streets and parks of Boston

A closer look at the Second church plaque; Bulfinch’s masterpiece, Paul revere, George Washington bust

Course overview questions and discussions

Copies of "Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us" can be purchased at Amazon.com or www.bostonbronzeandstone.com

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About The Author

Joseph R. Gallo Jr. is not a historian nor a sculptor. He is a student and great appreciator of both academic fields. Trained as an educator and being an entrepreneur, he felt a need to reach out to the thousands of visitors who come to our historical city teaching them through this guidebook the purpose and reason why such beautiful works of art embellish our fair City of Boston. Compiling updated photos and historical text for the resurrection of a much needed simple-to-use guidebook Boston Bronze and Stone Speaks To Us was time consuming, but fulfilling. The purpose and meaning of these monuments is made more lucid with the structuring of this new book.

About the Book

Boston Bronze & Stone Speak To Us is a unique and beautiful book that combines art, history, and walking guides for the public sculpture found in eighteen Boston locales. Written by Joseph R. Gallo, Jr., who states that he is not an historian but a lover of the City of Boston, the book combines his original photographs and observations with well-referenced sources and maps for a complete experience of enjoying Boston sculpture. With hundreds of full-color photographs in all, each chapter offers a map of that area with stars and page numbers marking each work discussed. The chapters include the Boston Common, the State House inside and out, Beacon Hill and Louisburg Square, the Boston Public Gardens, the Esplanade and Hatch Shell, the Fenway, Chinatown and the Theater District, Copley Square, Park Square, the Commonwealth Avenue Mall, School Street and the Old City hall, King's Chapel, Downtown and the Financial District, Government Center, Quincy Marketplace and Faneuil Hall, the North End, and the Waterfront. The book also includes and Index of Monuments and an Index of the Sculptors. Boston is home to some of the most extraordinary public art in North America. Sculptors of public art include Daniel Chester French, Katherine Lane Weems, August Saint-Gaudens and George Aarons. This lovingly produced book introduces readers to the artists, the subjects of their work, and the accessibility of exceptional art all within the city of Boston.