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The Railroad in American art : representations of technological change / edited by Susan Danly and Leo Marx.
Fine Arts Library N8237.8.R3 R34 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Railroads in art.
- Art, American.
- Art, Modern--19th century--United States.
- Art, Modern.
- Art, American--20th century.
- Art, American--19th century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xi unnumbered pages, 218 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1988]
- Contents:
- Aser B. Durand's Progress: the advance of civilization and the vanishing American / Kenneth W. Maddox
- George Inness's The Lackawanna Valley: "type of the modern"/ Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr.
- Andrew Joseph Russell's The Great Wall Illustrated / Susan Danly
- Man-made mountain: "gathering and governing" H.H. Richardson's design for the Ames monument in Wyoming / James F. O'Gorman
- City railways/Modernist visions / Dominic Ricciotti
- Charles Sheeler's rolling power / Susan Fillin-Yeh
- Edward Hopper's railroad imagery / Gail Levin
- The railroad-in-the-landscape: and iconological reading of a theme in American art / Leo Marx.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- "This book has its origin in an exhibition and symposium, The Railroad in the American Landscape, 1850-1950, held at the Wellesley College Museum in April 1981"--Pref.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- Athenaeum copy: Gift: S. Danly, 1988.
- ISBN:
- 0262231263
- OCLC:
- 14213889
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