{"product_id":"stan-and-gus-by-henry-wiencek-9781250437914","title":"Stan and Gus","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe celebrated architect Stanford White was a louche man-about-town and a canny cultural entrepreneur, the creator of landmarks that raised the stature of the American built environment. Augustus Saint-Gaudens, a sculptor and the son of an immigrant shoemaker, was a moody introvert and a committed procrastinator whose painstaking work brought emotional depth to American statuary. Over years of acquaintance, their relationship evolved into a partnership that defined the art of the Gilded Age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eStan and Gus\u003c\/em\u003e, the acclaimed historian Henry Wiencek tells the story of a fruitful, complicated relationship. After pursuing their own careers in Italy and France, the two men met again back home, where they forged era-defining monuments, including White's Washington Square Arch and Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan and Saint-Gaudens's memorials to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and Clover Adams in Boston and Washington, D.C., respectively. Over the course of decades, White protected Saint-Gaudens from impatient clients when he failed to complete projects on time. Meanwhile, Saint-Gaudens challenged White to take his artistic gifts seriously. But alongside the brilliant commissions were sordid debaucheries—and White's sensational murder in 1906.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout, Wiencek sets White and Saint-Gaudens within the era known as the American Renaissance, when a new upper class sought to fortify its ascendancy, and its aspirations and delusions of grandeur collided with new aesthetic ideas to yield work of lasting beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48253551771884,"sku":"9781250437914","price":52.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781250437914-stan-and-gus-1.jpg?v=1788231425","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/stan-and-gus-by-henry-wiencek-9781250437914","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}