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The Railroad in American Art

Representations of Technological Change

The Railroad in American Art( )
Editor: Danly, Susan
Marx, Leo
ISBN:978-0-262-23126-8
Publication Date:Mar 1988
Publisher:MIT Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $45.00
Book Description:

These essays on paintings, prints, and photographs explore the wealth of railroad imagery in American art - from Thomas Cole's pastoral landscapes to the industrial muscle of works by Bellows, Luks, Marsh, and Sloan, and evocations of the frontier in photographs by Andrew Joseph Russell and William Henry Jackson.

Book Details
Pages:230
Detailed Subjects: Transportation / Railroads / History
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.8 x 3.6 x 1 Inches
Book Weight:2.86 Pounds
Author Biography
(Editor)
Scholar, writer and educator Leo Marx was educated at Harvard University, where he received a B. A. and a Ph. D.

Marx taught at the University of Minnesota, Amherst College, and MIT. The school has also created the Leo Marx Career Development Professorship in the History and Culture of Science and Technology to honor his service.

Marx's works, such as "The Machine in the Garden," explore the relationship between technology and culture in the past two centuries.

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