Dr. de la Motte’s lecture will focus on different kinds of striving or ambition in the context of the rapidly changing society of the nineteenth century, on the tension between financial and artistic success, and on the desire to be noticed and, ultimately, remembered that is so fundamental to an understanding of the architectural treasures of the Gilded Age in general and Newport in particular.
Dr. de la Motte’s lecture will focus on different kinds of striving or ambition in the context of the rapidly changing society of the nineteenth century, on the tension between financial and artistic success, and on the desire to be noticed and, ultimately, remembered that is so fundamental to an understanding of the architectural treasures of the Gilded Age in general and Newport in particular.
