Colossal: Engineering Modernity Suez Canal Statue of Liberty Eiffel Tower Panama Canal /anglais - Couverture rigide
Synopsis
Three Frenchmen-Eiffel, Lesseps, and Bartholdi-were the moving spirits behind all four colossi of the Suez Canal, Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower and Panama Canal. This highly original book by Darcy Grigsby, a professor of art history at Berkeley, presents their extraordinary, interlinked history. It begins with Napoleon in Egypt and ends with the building of the Panama Canal, taking in other colossal enterprises along the way. The book brings engineering into the history of art for the first time. Amply illustrated, it crosses between the histories of art, technology, and engineering as well as with cultural and political history.
Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.
À propos de l'auteur
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby is the author of 'Extremeties: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France' and an Associate Professor of the History of Art an Architecture at University of California, Berkeley.
À propos de la quatrième de couverture
Three Frenchmen-Eiffel, Lesseps, and Bartholdi-were the moving spirits behind all four colossi of the Suez Canal, Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower and Panama Canal. This highly original book by Darcy Grigsby, a professor of art history at Berkeley, presents their extraordinary, interlinked history. It begins with Napoleon in Egypt and ends with the building of the Panama Canal, taking in other colossal enterprises along the way. The book brings engineering into the history of art for the first time. Amply illustrated, it crosses between the histories of art, technology, and engineering as well as with cultural and political history.
Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.
Résultats de recherche pour Colossal: Engineering Modernity Suez Canal Statue of...
Image d'archives
Colossal: Engineering the Suez Canal, Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower and Panama Canal
Edité par
Periscope, 2012
ISBN 10 : 1934772763
ISBN 13 : 9781934772768
Ancien ou d'occasion
Couverture rigide
Vendeur : WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Royaume-Uni
Évaluation du vendeur 5 sur 5 étoiles
Hardback. Etat : Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. N° de réf. du vendeur GOR007440513
Acheter D'occasion
EUR 67,89
Expédition à EUR 6,49
Expédition depuis Royaume-Uni vers Etats-Unis
Expédition depuis Royaume-Uni vers Etats-Unis
Quantité disponible : 1 disponible(s)
Image fournie par le vendeur
Colossal: Engineering the Suez Canal, Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, and Panama Canal
Edité par
Periscope, 2012
ISBN 10 : 1934772763
ISBN 13 : 9781934772768
Ancien ou d'occasion
Couverture rigide
Edition originale
Vendeur : Reading Room Books, Kilmarnock, Royaume-Uni
Évaluation du vendeur 5 sur 5 étoiles
Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. book's cover has wear and scuff at bottom of spine; dustjacket has some wear especially at bottom edge. N° de réf. du vendeur 4438
Acheter D'occasion
EUR 53,70
Expédition à EUR 21,78
Expédition depuis Royaume-Uni vers Etats-Unis
Expédition depuis Royaume-Uni vers Etats-Unis
Quantité disponible : 1 disponible(s)
Image fournie par le vendeur
Colossal: Engineering the Suez Canal, Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower and Panama Canal
Edité par
Periscope Publishing, 2012
ISBN 10 : 1934772763
ISBN 13 : 9781934772768
Ancien ou d'occasion
Couverture rigide
Vendeur : WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Royaume-Uni
Évaluation du vendeur 5 sur 5 étoiles
Etat : Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. N° de réf. du vendeur rev2935798074
Acheter D'occasion
EUR 64,41
Expédition à EUR 15,20
Expédition depuis Royaume-Uni vers Etats-Unis
Expédition depuis Royaume-Uni vers Etats-Unis
Quantité disponible : 1 disponible(s)
Image fournie par le vendeur
Colossal: Engineering the Suez Canal
Edité par
Periscope Publishing, 2012
ISBN 10 : 1934772763
ISBN 13 : 9781934772768
Ancien ou d'occasion
Couverture rigide
Vendeur : Optimon Books, Gravesend, KENT, Royaume-Uni
Évaluation du vendeur 5 sur 5 étoiles
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. The Suez Canal came first, in 1869; the Panama Canal, last, in 1914; in between in rapid succession, came the Statue of Liberty, 1886, and the Eiffel Tower, 1889. Brilliant, counterintutive, 'Colossal' shows that these awesome monoliths - each usually seen alone as a wonder - have a single, tightly entwined history. Three Frenchmen - Ferdinand de Lesseps, Gustave Eiffel, and Frederic Auguste Bartholdi - were the moving spirits behind the four enterprises. Firsthand experience of the giant monuments of Ancient Egypt shaped the vast ambition of these men. They shared as well as fervid belief that modern materials and technologies would enable them to rival the builder of the Pharoahs. As 'Colossal' follows the paths of the three Frenchmen and the fates of their visionary projects, it tells a spellbinding story that happens also to be an entirely new sociopolitical and cultural history of engineering. The illustrations in this book are fascinating records of building projects that did change he world. Darcy Grigsby is a gifted writer, equally adept at explaining the intricacies of scale drawing and 19th century nationalism. 'Colossal' is a book for the general reader as well as specialists in the history of art and architecture. N° de réf. du vendeur 443240
Acheter D'occasion
EUR 71,60
Expédition à EUR 20,86
Expédition depuis Royaume-Uni vers Etats-Unis
Expédition depuis Royaume-Uni vers Etats-Unis
Quantité disponible : 1 disponible(s)
Image d'archives
Colossal : Engineering the Suez Canal, Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, and Panama Canal -- Transcontinental Ambition in France and the United States During the Long Nineteenth Century
Vendeur : BWS BKS, Ferndale, NY, Etats-Unis
Évaluation du vendeur 1 sur 5 étoiles
Hardcover. Etat : New. N° de réf. du vendeur 102157
Acheter neuf
EUR 1 786,66
Expédition à EUR 2,63
Expédition nationale : Etats-Unis
Expédition nationale : Etats-Unis
Quantité disponible : 2 disponible(s)