The artist and the bridge [[electronic resource] ] : 1700-1920 / / John Sweetman
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| Autore: |
Sweetman John (John E.)
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| Titolo: |
The artist and the bridge [[electronic resource] ] : 1700-1920 / / John Sweetman
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| Pubblicazione: | London, : Routledge, 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 704.9/44 |
| Soggetto topico: | Bridges in art |
| Symbolism in art | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The artist and the bridge |
| ISBN: | 0-429-44008-1 |
| 0-429-80196-3 | |
| 0-429-80195-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910793515103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Routledge revivals.