The Artist and the Bridge: 1700-1920 / Edition 1

by John Sweetman

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138341548
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/07/2020
Series:	Routledge Revivals
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	8.69(w) x 10.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. Views and Sightlines 1700-1800. 2. New Encounters, New Effects 1750-1800. 3. Far Objectives, Missed Connexions 1800-1850. 4. Realities and Ideals 1800-1920.