Riggs, Timothy A., 1942-

At the heart of progress : coal, iron, and steam since 1750 : industrial imagery from the John P. Eckblad collection / [Timothy A. Riggs].

[Chapel Hill, North Carolina] : Ackland Art Museum, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.

52 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

"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."--Jacket.

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Eckblad, John Art collections Exhibitions.
Eckblad, John.
Bauhaus Dessau 1986-1994 Bereich Architektur und Sammlungen
Industries in art Exhibitions.
Industrial revolution Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Prints Exhibitions.
Prints Private collections North Carolina Chapel Hill Exhibitions.
Industrie dans l'art Expositions.
Révolution industrielle Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
Estampe Expositions.
Estampe Collections privées Caroline du Nord Chapel Hill Expositions.
Art Private collections.
Industrial revolution.
Industries in art.
Prints.
Prints Private collections.
Druckgrafik
Industrialisierung
Industrie
Bergbau
Sammlung
North Carolina Chapel Hill.

Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition, pictorial works.

Ackland Art Museum, host institution.

Location: Library main 294541
Call No.: BIB 240181
Status: Available