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Fountains : splash and spectacle : water and design from the Renaissance to the present

Title: Fountains : splash and spectacle : water and design from the Renaissance to the present / edited by Marilyn Symmes ; [contributors] Kenneth Breisch [and others].
Publication: New York : Rizzoli : In association with Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Smithsonian Institution, 1998.

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208 pages : illustrations (some color); 32 cm

Summary

Fountains: Splash and Spectacle celebrates the achievements in fountain design since the Renaissance, and explores the fountain's social significance and its underlying principles.
Abundant illustrations of works of art, historical and modern photographs, and architectural drawings feature fountains as symbols of power, structures created for pleasure and entertainment, incredible technological displays made for international expositions, and fountains as urban oases in cities throughout the United States and Europe.

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Catalog of an exhibition held at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, June 9-Oct. 11, 1998.

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Contents

Foreword / Dianne H. Pilgrim -- 1. The Rise and Fall of Water / Marilyn Symmes -- 2. Fountains as Refreshment / Marilyn Symmes and Maria Ann Conelli -- The Fall and Rise of the Waters of Rome / Katherine Wentworth Rinne -- 3. Fountains as Metaphor / Naomi Miller -- The Bethesda Fountain in New York City / Andrew Scott Dolkart -- 4. Fountains as Propaganda / Maria Ann Conelli and Marilyn Symmes -- Fountains as Globes, Symbols of the Universe and Democracy / Marilyn Symmes -- The Fountains in Trafalgar Square, London / Stephen Astley -- 5. Fountains as Spectacle at International Expositions -- 1851-1915 / Kenneth Breisch -- 1925-1970 / Marilyn Symmes and Stephen Van Dyk -- Remembering the Fountain of the Planets at the New York World's Fair, 1964-1965 / Bart Barlow -- 6. Fountains as Commemoration / Marilyn Symmes -- 7. Fountains as Entertainment and Pleasure / Maria Ann Conelli and Marilyn Symmes -- The Fountains at Chatsworth / Stephen Astley --
Swaying, Sprinkling and Splashing: The Fountains of Jean Tinguely / Paula Deitz -- 8. Fountains as Urban Oases / Marc Treib.

ISBN

0847821005 (hardcover)

LCCN

98009265

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Columbia University Libraries