: Louis Nelson
: MOSAIC War Monument Mystery
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: 9781098366131
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: Geschichte
: English
: 222
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Synopsis. MOSAIC War Monument Mystery An Historical Memoir By Louis Nelson The Korean War is now America's seminal war. It was the first war conducted with the new United Nations, the first war fought against the Chinese Communists and the first war we didn't win. We've not had a win since 1945. Today, nuclear tensions between North Korea and the United States have heightened the uncertainty of lives in America, the Pacific Rim and throughout the world. I designed the mural wall at the Korean Veterans Memorial on the Mall in Washington DC; visited South Korea, talked to the people, lectured at the university and viewed the DMZ. Mosaic is my story about the Korean War today and its Memorial; a story of death, rescue and growth. This book examines how this war affected me and its veterans-then and now- leading to my design of its mural and a new addition. Here is a look into the uncertainty of this Nation's vulnerability and the stories few have known. Here are events of men and women, surrounding the commemoration of a great and nearly forgotten American war, with contributions from its neighbors, the Washington Monument and the Lincoln and Vietnam Memorials. Our need to remember hooks us to the core of what happened, to the essence of its participants, and prompts questions as to why. Least remembered of all our wars, Korea is the 'tipping point.'
IN PRAISE OF MOSAIC
Louis Nelson is as eloquent and heartful a scholar and writer about memorials to our nation’s wars as he is a masterful designer of one of the most evocative: the Korean War Memorial. The honoring of history; a sense of humanity, courage, sacrifice, united resolve—all the qualities we Americans have been proud to bear—resonate through these memorials, as they do through Louis’s words about them. We sorely need this beautiful book—this verbal and pictorial homage—at this, now, the most challenging moment in our nation’s history. Thank you, Louis Nelson, for reminding us of what we must continue to be.
—John Kelly, author ofThe Great Mortality andThe Graves Are Walking; andSheila Weller, author ofCarrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge andGirls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon—and theJourney of a Generation.
Louis Nelson has written a memorable book—one aptly named Mosaic, one imagines, for the many pieces he has collected that found design expression in his rendering of the Korean War Memorial. Memorials can have a mysterious magic that are capable of changing how we see the world. “Blood and beauty” resides in our national memory he says—but there is also a substance Nelson brings to this forgotten war, an urgent power that is so articulately expressed in this book.
—Susan Eisenhower. Cofounder and Chairman Emerita of the Eisenhower Institute
“Mosaic” is a book with dimension and depth. It is a memoir of the Korean War by one who fought it at another time and place. The book traces the personal and professional development of a major figure in the field of America design. And it is a meditation on this place of monuments in our lives from the artist who designed and built the wall and mural at the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington DC.
—The Right Reverend Clifton Daniel III
Dean, The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine
I was enormously moved by MOSAIC. I hope this blurb will help others to find it:
“How do you create a monument for a war as ambiguous as the Korean War? Louis Nelson was given this difficult job. How it changed him and how it changed its spectators is a story he tells in MOSAIC, recounting his experience turning life and death into design. How wonderful to have his beautifully told story.”
—Erica Jong.
Author, Poet
Dear Louis,
I’ve spent an extremely rewarding day reading Mosaic. The pleasure I’ve taken in each of my visits to the Memorial, the emotional impact I’ve experienced, has been