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Brooklyn Bridge: Fact And Symbol (Phoenix Book; P828) by Trachtenberg New^+
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Artist
- Not Specified
- PublishedOn
- 1979-07-15
- Title
- Brooklyn Bridge: Fact And Symbol (Phoenix Book; P828)
- ISBN
- 9780226811154
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226811158
ISBN-13
9780226811154
eBay Product ID (ePID)
70376
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
216 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Brooklyn Bridge : Fact and Symbol
Subject
United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), General, Civil / General
Publication Year
1979
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Technology & Engineering, Photography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0 in
Item Weight
11.1 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
2
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
78-068548
Dewey Edition
19
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
624.55097471
Table Of Content
Preface to the Phoenix Edition Preface Prologue I. Sources 1. Wilderness Transformed 2. The Rainbow and the Grid 3. An American Dream II. Shape 4. A Master Plan 5. A Monument III. Fact and Symbol 6. History--and Secret History 7. Opening Ceremonies 8. Two Kingdoms 9. The Shadow of a Myth Epilogue A Walker Evans Portfolio Afterword: Walker Evans's Brooklyn Bridge Index
Synopsis
Fourteen of Walker Evans's evocative photographs of Brooklyn Bridge, most of which have never been published, appear in this edition of Alan Trachenberg's Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol . In the new afterword Trachenberg explores the history of Hart Crane's The Bridge , especially the poem's integral relationship with the powerful photography of Evans. " Brooklyn Bridge] is familiar in so many movies, in so many stage sets and, as Mr. Trachtenberg shows in this brilliant . . . book, it is at least as much a symbol as a reality. . . . Mr. Trachtenberg is always exciting and illuminating."- Times Literary Supplement "The book is a skillful and insightful synthesis of materials about Brooklyn Bridge from such diverse fields as history, engineering, literature and art. Essentially it asks the question of why Brooklyn Bridge achieved such great impact on the nineteenth century American imagination and why it has continued to have a significant impact on twentieth century art and literature. In addition to its exploration of the bridge's symbolic significance, which includes perceptive analyses of such particular works as Hart Crane's great poem cycle and the paintings of artists like Joseph Stella, the book also includes a solidly researched account of the conception, planning and construction of the bridge. Trachtenberg's account of the intellectual and cultural sources of the bridge is particularly fascinating in its demonstration of the convergence of many different philosophical and ideological currents of the time around this great engineering enterprise, illustrating as effectively as any discussion I know the complex interplay of ideas and material culture."-John G. Cawelti, University of Chicago "Alan Trachtenberg's Brooklyn Bridge is a fascinating story, the philosophic genesis of the idea in Europe, John Roebling's heroic effort to translate it into masonry and steel, and the meanings that Americans attached to the physical object as an emblem of their aspirations."-Leo Marx, Amherst College, author of The Machine in the Garden, Fourteen of Walker Evans's evocative photographs of Brooklyn Bridge, most of which have never been published, appear in this edition of Alan Trachenberg's Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol . In the new afterword Trachenberg explores the history of Hart Crane's The Bridge , especially the poem's integral relationship with the powerful photography of Evans. "[Brooklyn Bridge] is familiar in so many movies, in so many stage sets and, as Mr. Trachtenberg shows in this brilliant . . . book, it is at least as much a symbol as a reality. . . . Mr. Trachtenberg is always exciting and illuminating."-- Times Literary Supplement "The book is a skillful and insightful synthesis of materials about Brooklyn Bridge from such diverse fields as history, engineering, literature and art. Essentially it asks the question of why Brooklyn Bridge achieved such great impact on the nineteenth century American imagination and why it has continued to have a significant impact on twentieth century art and literature. In addition to its exploration of the bridge's symbolic significance, which includes perceptive analyses of such particular works as Hart Crane's great poem cycle and the paintings of artists like Joseph Stella, the book also includes a solidly researched account of the conception, planning and construction of the bridge. Trachtenberg's account of the intellectual and cultural sources of the bridge is particularly fascinating in its demonstration of the convergence of many different philosophical and ideological currents of the time around this great engineering enterprise, illustrating as effectively as any discussion I know the complex interplay of ideas and material culture."--John G. Cawelti, University of Chicago "Alan Trachtenberg's Brooklyn Bridge is a fascinating story, the philosophic genesis of the idea in Europe, John Roebling's heroic effort to translate it into masonry and steel, and the meanings that Americans attached to the physical object as an emblem of their aspirations."--Leo Marx, Amherst College, author of The Machine in the Garden
LC Classification Number
TG25.N53
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