The Railway: Art in the Age of Steam (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (YALE))

by Ian Kennedy (Author), Julian Treuherz (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2008

  $41.52

  Steam locomotives gripped the imagination when they first appeared in nineteenth-century Europe and America. Aboard these great machines, passengers travelled at faster speeds than ever before. This work captures both the fear and excitement of early train travel as it probes the artistic response to steam locomotion within its social setting.