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Signed by Doug Cooper CMU Prof. Steel Shadows Murals &.. Pittsburgh - $65
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Douglas Cooper CMU Architecture Professor of 49 Years
Rare Steel Shadows Murals and Drawings of Pittsburgh Inscribed and Signed by Author (See Images)
Imagine Pittsburgh's gritty streets brought to life in charcoal, capturing the city's beating heart in stunning sketches.
Steel Shadows Murals and Drawings of Pittsburgh 1st. Edition HB/DJ
Inscribed & signed Doug Cooper March 2002
Steel Shadows
Murals and Drawings of Pittsburgh
By Douglas Cooper
Copyright 2000
University of Pittsburgh Press
1st. Edition, HB/DJ
174 pages
With Steel Shadows, you don’t have to visit exhibition halls at Carnegie Mellon University or the John Heinz History Center to enjoy Douglas Cooper’s unique, realistic and highly personal images of Pittsburgh. Steel Shadows brings his large charcoal and paper art home to you.
Cooper details the inspiration for his artistic vision, as well as the formal properties of his art and how it relates to architecture. The book features double-page spreads of his murals, his essay, and excerpts from Pittsburgh authors telling the stories of the city’s ethnic and eclectic style of neighborhoods, combining details of bridge building and steel making with poetry, historical accounts, and stories of the daily lives of Pittsburghers, all set against the backdrop of the city’s raw industrial landscape.
Steel Shadows is a book for students of art, architecture, urban studies, and oral history. Most of all, it is a book to share with friends and family, and a book to rekindle memories of this former steel town.
Douglas Cooper is prominent within Pittsburgh's art, history, and architectural communities, recognized for his distinct style that memorializes the city's past and present, making him a celebrated local personality.
Book with dust jacket is in very good used condition. Covers are slightly warped. There is a crease at the back endpaper.
Cash only, local pick up only in zip code 15238, Borough of Blawnox, about 9 miles northeast of downtown Pittsburgh or at the Waterworks Shopping Plaza on Freeport Road near Aspinwall.