Gustave Dore's London: A Study of the City in the Age of Confidence, 1848-1873 (Monograph / Frederic Lindley Morgan Chair of Architectural Design) [Paperback]

John Coolidge (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0872331075 | ISBN-13: 978-0872331075 | Publication Date: October 1992

Gustave Dors unforgettable images of Victorian London portray in stark contrast the affluent world of monumental buildings, horse racing, and society balls against the teeming populace of city streets and the raw poverty of slums, homelessness and hoplessness. To reinforce Dor's powerful engravings, Coolidge draws skillfully upon the written observations of contemporary European visitors such as Taine, Heine, Gautier and Doystoyevsky. Gustave Dor's London - A study of the City in the Age of Confidence, 1848-1873 is Monograph No. 3 in the Frederic Lindley Morgan Chair of Architectural Design series, published for the University of Louisville.

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The late John Coolidge, a man of many partsprofessor, museum director, trusteewas a scholar who made fundamental contributions to the study of Italian Rennaissance architecture and to the social economic, and architectural history of the Untied States during his twenty years as director of the Fogg Museum at Harvard.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: William L Bauhan (October 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0872331075
• ISBN-13: 978-0872331075
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,745,974 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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