The Artist and the Bridge 1700-1920
Subtitle: 1700-1920
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: June 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780754600138
Subjects: Man-made objects depicted in art (architectural, mechanical, etc); Painting & paintings; Special Subjects In Art; Art; Art & Art Instruction; History - Symbolism; Specific Subjects; Subjects & Themes - General; History - General; Bridges in art; Symbolism in art
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.