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Westward the Course of Empire (Yale University Art Gallery S.) (Hardback)
$60.42 - Save $3.18 (5%) - RRP $63.60 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Westward the Course of EmpirePresents more than 70 prints from the series "Westward the Course of Empire", an inventory of the residual landforms created by the scores of railroads built in the American and Canadian West since 1869. This title contains photographs that depict the grades, cuts, tunnels and trestles.
Full description- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Published: 15 July 2008
- Format: Hardback 180 pages
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- Categories: Animals & Nature In Art (still Life, Landscapes & Seascapes, Etc) | Photography | Individual Photographers | Photographs: Collections | Railway Transport Industries | Trains & Railways
- ISBN 13: 9780300141344 ISBN 10: 0300141343
- Sales rank: 309,844
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Full description for Westward the Course of Empire
Mark Ruwedel (b. 1954) has photographed the American West for the past twenty-five years, revealing the narratives - both geological and human - contained within the landscape. This stunning book present more than 70 prints from Ruwedel's ongoing series "Westward the Course of Empire", an inventory of the residual landforms created by the scores of railroads built in the American and Canadian West since 1869.The grades, cuts, tunnels, and trestles depicted in Ruwedel's photographs speak to a past triumph of technology over what was often perceived as hostile terrain, as well as to the desire and struggle to create wealth and power from the land. Long abandoned (and in some cases never completed), the railroads also evoke the futility of the enterprise. This book is thus a sublime yet restrained elegy to the land and to the follies and wonders of human ambition.
