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Architecture --- Bridges --- Bridges in art. --- History.
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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.
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"In this wide-ranging and erudite book, Thomas Harrison gives a panoramic account of the many meanings and valences of bridges in human culture. He considers the impulse to build bridges in early human civilizations and the way bridges linked the transience of human life and the eternal realm of the divine. He visits historical bridges over which people have gone to battle, discusses metaphorical bridges, such as those in musical composition, and probes the many connections between bridges and death, and bridges and love. Throughout, Harrison illustrates his discussions with a wide range of references from art, poetry, and philosophy, mostly though not exclusively from the European tradition, reaching back to antiquity"--
Bridges in art --- Bridges --- Social aspects --- Religious aspects --- History --- Bridges in literature
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Bridges in art --- Symbolism in art. --- Landscape painting --- Ponts dans l'art --- Symbolisme dans l'art --- Peinture de paysages
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Bridges in art --- Bridges --- Rivers in art --- Ponts dans l'art --- Rivières dans l'art --- Tiber River Valley (Italy) --- In art
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architectural elements --- art [fine art] --- Iconography --- Art --- Burden, Chris --- anno 1900-1999 --- United States --- Iron and steel bridges --- Bridges in art --- Ponts métalliques --- Ponts dans l'art --- Burden, Chris, --- Interviews --- Exhibitions --- Ponts métalliques --- art [discipline] --- United States of America
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Bridges --- Bridges in art --- Pont --- Rapport architecte-ingénieur --- Rapport architecture-peinture --- Rapport architecture-nature --- Rapport architecture-sculpture --- Rapport art-architecture --- Rapport du créateur à l'objet créé --- Rapport du spectateur à l'objet créé --- Rapport forme-fonction --- Bridges - Pictorial works
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