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The Artist and the Bridge: 1700-1920
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The Artist and the Bridge: 1700-1920 in Franklin, TN
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The Artist and the Bridge: 1700-1920 in Franklin, TN
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First published in 1999, this book explores how, 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 1700-1920. 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 the 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.
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 the 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.
First published in 1999, this book explores how, 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 1700-1920. 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 the 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.
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 the 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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