At the Heart of Progress
Coal, Iron, and Steam since 1750
By Timothy Riggs
50 pp., 8.5 x 8.5, 36 color illus., notes, bibl.
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-5980-3
Published: March 2009
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Distributed for the Ackland Art Museum
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.
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Timothy Riggs is curator of collections at the Ackland Art Museum, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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