At the Heart of Progress

Riggs, Timothy A.

ISBN 10: 080785980X / ISBN 13: 9780807859803

Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 2009

About this Item

Explores the ways that artists have looked at the world that was created by heavy industry over more than two centuries. This title offers a discussion of twenty-nine key prints and traces the growth and transformation of heavy industry in Britain, France, and America. Num Pages: 50 pages, 36 colour illustrations, notes, bibl. BIC Classification: 1DB; 1DDF; 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 227. . 2009. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: At the Heart of Progress
• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080785980X
• ISBN 13: 9780807859803
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Written to accompany an exhibition of prints from the John P. Eckblad collection of industrial imagery, At the Heart of Progress explores the way that artists have looked at the world that was created by heavy industry over more than two centuries. An interlocking triad — the mining of coal, the production of iron and steel, and the development of steam power — formed the basis of modern industrial civilization, explains curator Timothy Riggs. This transformation of the world is presented in a wide variety of images: documentary views, advertising and political posters, and works of art by artists including Camille Pissarro, Joseph Pennell, and C. R. W. Nevinson.

The volume offers a detailed discussion of twenty-nine key prints and traces the growth and transformation of heavy industry in Britain, France, and America. At the Heart of Progress shows how artists confronted the new industrial structures of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and then focuses on the artistic representation of the industrial environment and the portrayal of the worker in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as the industrial landscape engulfed whole tracts of countryside and a new society of industrial laborers developed.

About the Author

Timothy Riggs is curator of collections at the Ackland Art Museum, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.