The Railway: Art in the Age of Steam

Through vivid illustrations and engaging texts, captures both the fear and excitement of early train travel as it probes the artistic response to steam locomotion within its social setting. Featuring paintings, photography, prints, and posters, the book includes numerous masterpieces by 19th- and 20th-century artists, including J. M. W. Turner, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Charles Sheeler, and Edward Hopper. With its wide variety of themes—landscape painting, the conquest of the West, Impressionism, issues of social class, Modernism, the aesthetics of the machine, and environmental concerns—this work promises an exhilarating journey for both train and art enthusiasts and for anyone interested in one of the industrial age’s defining achievements. Exhibition Schedule: Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool (April 18 – August 10, 2008) The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (September 13, 2008 – January 18, 2009)