The Artist and the Bridge, 1700-1920
by Sweetman, John
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- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0754600130
- ISBN 13
- 9780754600138
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About This Item
Ashgate Publishing Limited. Very Good/Very Good. 2000. Hard Cover. Sm 4to 0754600130 Dust jacket complete. Original white cloth boards with bright silver titling on spine. No ownership marks. Numerous colour and b/w illustrations. 208 pages clean and tight. From the stone bridges of neoclassicism which soar out of wild woods to span pastoral valleys to the post-1750 engineer's bridge with its links to the more industrial landscape, the bridge was a popular feature in painting throughout the period 1700 to 1920. Why did so many artists choose to portray bridges? In this lavishly illustrated and intriguing book, John Sweetman seeks to answer this question. He traces the history of the bridge in painting and printmaking through a vast range of work, some as familiar as William Etty's The Bridge of Sighs and Claude Monet's The Railway Bridge at Argenteuil and others less well known such as Wassily Kandinsky's Composition IV and C. R.W. Nevinson's Looking through Brooklyn Bridge. Distinctive characteristics emerge revealing the complex role of the bridge as both symbol and metaphor, and as a place of vantage, meeting and separation. .
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- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 144863
- Title
- The Artist and the Bridge, 1700-1920
- Author
- Sweetman, John
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0754600130
- ISBN 13
- 9780754600138
- Publisher
- Ashgate Publishing Limited
- Place of Publication
- Aldershot, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 2000
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CHARLES BOSSOM
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About CHARLES BOSSOM
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