Colossal: Engineering Modernity: Suez Canal Statue of Liberty Eiffel Tower Panama Canal: Engineering the Suez Canal, Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower and Panama Canal - Hardcover

Grigsby, Darcy Grimaldo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1934772763 ISBN 13: 9781934772768

Verlag: Periscope Publishing Ltd., 2009

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The Suez Canal came first, in 1869, the Panama Canal, last, in 1914; in between, and, 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 Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, - were the moving spirits behind the four enterprises. Firsthand experience of the giant monuments of Ancient Egypt shaped the vast ambitions of these men. They shared as well a fervid belief that modern materials and technologies would enable them to rival the builders of the Pharaohs. 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 the 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.

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Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby is Professor of the History of Art at U.C. Berkeley.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Periscope Publishing Ltd.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1934772763
• ISBN 13: 9781934772768
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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