Artist and the Built Environment

This book is concerned with the built environment -- the buildings, transportation, and engineering works around us. Conversion of old structures to contemporary uses, preservation, and ind¹l. archaeology indicate an awareness of the urban landscape and the effect it has upon us. The artist¹s function is to examine, digest, and interpret our surroundings. This book includes artists who have responded to this theme, such as Canaletto, Sheeler, Demuth, Burchfield, Turner and Soutine. Examples have been chosen to show how artists of different periods, temperaments, and backgrounds have approached similar subjects or even the same motif. Profusely illustrated.Stoltenberg, Donald is the author of 'Artist and the Built Environment' with ISBN 9780788195983 and ISBN 0788195980.