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Bridges A History of the World’s Most Famous and Important Spans by Dupre 18X8
Bridges A History of the World’s Most Famous and Important Spans by Dupre 18X8
Bridges A History of the World’s Most Famous and Important Spans by Dupre 18X8
Bridges A History of the World’s Most Famous and Important Spans by Dupre 18X8
Bridges A History of the World’s Most Famous and Important Spans by Dupre 18X8
Bridges A History of the World’s Most Famous and Important Spans by Dupre 18X8
Bridges A History of the World’s Most Famous and Important Spans by Dupre 18X8
Bridges A History of the World’s Most Famous and Important Spans by Dupre 18X8
Bridges A History of the World’s Most Famous and Important Spans by Dupre 18X8
Bridges A History of the World’s Most Famous and Important Spans by Dupre 18X8
Bridges A History of the World’s Most Famous and Important Spans by Dupre 18X8
Bridges A History of the World’s Most Famous and Important Spans by Dupre 18X8
Bridges A History of the World’s Most Famous and Important Spans by Dupre 18X8
Bridges A History of the World’s Most Famous and Important Spans by Dupre 18X8
Bridges A History of the World’s Most Famous and Important Spans by Dupre 18X8
Bridges A History of the World’s Most Famous and Important Spans by Dupre 18X8
Bridges A History of the World’s Most Famous and Important Spans by Dupre 18X8
Bridges A History of the World’s Most Famous and Important Spans by Dupre 18X8
Bridges A History of the World’s Most Famous and Important Spans by Dupre 18X8
Bridges A History of the World’s Most Famous and Important Spans by Dupre 18X8

Bridges A History of the World’s Most Famous and Important Spans by Dupre 18X8


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Bridges A History of the World’s Most Famous and Important Spans by Dupre 18X8
 
Bridges A History of the Worlds Most Famous and Important Spans by Judith Dupre
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
Copyright 1997
Long Book - Approx. 18 long x 8 wide
By Judith Dupre
128 pages
Bridge engineers, even those who have designed the largest, most costly, and best loved bridges, are not nearly as well known as the bridges they have built. A telling anecdote involves Robert Moses's introduction of Othmar Ammann, the builder of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New York, at the bridge's opening. After a string of well-deserved accolades, Moses inadvertently forgot to mention Ammann, the greatest bridge builder of the twentieth century, by name. The remarkable achievements of Ammann and other unsung heroes of the built environment are included within these pages.
Even before Leonardo da Vinci painted the enigmatic Mona Lisa with a semicircular arch bridge in the background, artists have been drawn to bridges as a subject. The bridge at Giverny was Monet's muse, the Pont Neuf was Renoir's. Bridges peek from the corners or assume center stage in the paintings of Botticelli, Raphael, Constable, Whistler, C, van Gogh, to name a memorable handful. The Brooklyn Bridge, of course, is the most painted, sketched, photographed bridge in the world.
The bridges in the book are presented chronologically with the exception of the Ludendorff Bridge in Germany, which, though completed in 1918, is presented within the context of World War II, when it gained its place in history. The literary quotations and thematic spreads throughout the book illuminate the lyrical, catastrophic, utilitarian, and entertaining aspects of bridges, and the pull they have exerted on the collective and individual imagination.
The unassuming poetry of bridges reveals itself to those who would see them. Whether a simple crossing or an intricate labyrinth of steel, each of these structures has much to say about the extraordinary lives, effort, ingenuity, and wonder that come together on a bridge.

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