| #489705 in Books | 2009-07-30 | 2012-10-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.00 x10.10 x11.40l,3.50 | File type: PDF | 224 pages||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Colossal Engineering Modernity - Suez Canal, Statue of Liberty by Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby|By Anna M. Seidler|The magnificent book Colossal exceeded my expectations. It is superbly written and has many helpful photographs throughout the book which further demonstrate graphically the material described. It is complete in the history of the area and tells of how these Colossal wo|About the Author|Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby is the author of 'Extremeties: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France' and an Associate Professor of the History of Art an Architecture at University of California, Berkeley.
In this generously illustrated book, acclaimed Berkeley art historian Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby gives us the definitive account of a history that leads from Napoleon s encounter with the gigantic monuments of ancient Egypt to the building of the wonders of the industrial world: the Statue of Liberty, Suez Canal, Eiffel Tower, and Panama Canal. Though now landmarks as famed as the pyramids, Grigsby shows us that all four colossi owe their existence to French engineers and th...
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