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Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol
by Trachtenberg, Alan
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0226811158
- ISBN 13
- 9780226811154
- Seller
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New Castle, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
University of Chicago Press, 1979. 2nd ed. Trade paperback. Very Good. 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.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010021199
- Title
- Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol
- Author
- Trachtenberg, Alan
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd ed
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0226811158
- ISBN 13
- 9780226811154
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1979
- X weight
- 13 oz
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- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...