Caverns of Night
Subtitle: Coal Mines in Art Literature, and Film
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: August 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9781570033520
Subjects: Films, cinema; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: 19th century; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Mining industry; The Arts: General Issues; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; General; Arts, Modern; Art & Art Instruction; Literary Criticism; Europe; USA; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Subjects & Themes - General; 19th century; Coal mines and mining in art
First sentence: The nineteenth-century reception of J. M. W. Turner's Keelmen Heaving In Coals by Moonlight (1835) (fig. 1) demonstrated that coal and its by-products were viewed by commentators as a negation of the aesthetic or beautiful.