Gustave Dore's London: A Study of the City in the Age of Confidence, 1848-1873

by John Coolidge, William Morgan (Other)

Overview

Gustave Dor's unforgettable images of Victorian London portray in stark contrast the affluent world of monumental buildings, horse racing, and scoiety balls against the teeming populace of city streets and the raw poverty of slums, homelessness, and hopelessness. To reinforce Dore's powerful engravings, Coolidge draws skillfully upon the written observations of contemporary European visitors such as Taine, Heine, Gautier and Dostoyevsky.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780872331075
Publisher:	Bauhan Publishing
Publication date:	03/12/1994
Series:	Monograph / Frederic Lindley Morgan Chair of Architectural Design Series , #3
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

John Coolidge (1913 - 1995) was a man of many parts, professor, museum director, trusteewas a scholar, who made fundamental contributions to the study of Italian Rennaissance architecture and to the social economic, and architectural history of the Untied States during his twenty years as director of the Fogg Museum at Harvard.