Arts & Architecture  /  Art History

Steel Shadows

Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9780822957485
Pub Date: 19 Oct 2000
Description:
With Steel Shadows, you don\u2019t have to visit exhibition halls at Carnegie Mellon University or the John Heinz History Center to enjoy Douglas Cooper\u2019s unique, realistic and highly personal images of Pittsburgh. Steel Shadows brings his large charcoal and paper art home to you. Cooper details the inspiration for his artistic vision, as well as the formal properties of his art and how it relates to architecture.

Witness to the Fifties

The Pittsburgh Photographic Library, 1950–1953
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Format: 
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9780822941118
Pub Date: 07 Oct 1999
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9780822961406
Pub Date: 15 Nov 1999
Description:
Initially commissioned to record the progress of Pittsburgh’s Renaissance I, these unforgettable black-and-white photographs of Roy Stryker's Pittsburgh Photographic Library (PPL) capture the city in a state of flux. They reveal a union of opposites—the suited wonderment of the downtown businessman with the easy grace and competence of a shirtless construction worker balanced high over his head; the anonymity and isolation of planned housing with the belief in expansion and renewal; the energy and excitement of a city on the move with the traditions of the established elite; the juxtaposition between the growing optimism about the ability of technology to improve our lives; and the traditional steel and other heavy smokestack industries that still dominated the region. The Renaissance was seen as a way for Pittsburgh to keep abreast of modern urban life and to preserve its economic position, but the rapid development of a white suburban middle class was sapping the very essence of the personalized downtown neighborhoods.
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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780822955849
Pub Date: 15 May 1996
Description:
Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and a major American philanthropist, sought to bring world-class art and culture to Pittsburgh. This book looks at how the Carnegie International exhibit came into being in 1895, the early exhibitions, the art, artists, and the public reception to it.

Vision and the Visual Arts in Galdos

A Study of the Novels and Newspaper Articles
Format: Hardback
Pages: 242
ISBN: 9780905205304
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1986
Imprint: Francis Cairns Publications
Illustrations: x + 242 pages.
Description:
Throughout his life the major Spanish novelist Benito Perez Galdós (1843-1920) took a keen interest in the visual arts. Parts I and II of this book discuss Galdós's art journalism and his artistic contributions to the illustrated edition of the historical novels. But the main focus (part III) is on references to the visual arts and pictorial landscapes, particularly in the serie contemporánea, the contemporary social novels.