Steam locomotives gripped the imagination when they first appeared in 19th-century Europe and America. Aboard these great machines, passengers traveled at faster speeds than ever before while watching the scenery transform itself and take on new forms. Common notions of time and space were forever changed. Through vivid illustrations and engaging texts,The Railway: Art in the Age of Steamcaptures both the fear and excitement of early train travel as it probes the artistic response to steam locomotion within its social setting. Featuring paintings, photography, prints, and posters, the book includes numerous masterpieces by 19th- and 20th-century artists, including J. M. W. Turner, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Charles Sheeler, and Edward Hopper. With its wide variety of themeslandscape painting, the conquest of the West, Impressionism, issues of social class, Modernism, the aesthetics of the machine, and environmental concernsthis work promises an exhilarating journey for both train and art enthusiasts and for anyone interested in one of the industrial age's defining achievements.

Ian Kennedy is Louis L. and Adelaide C. Ward Curator, European Painting and Sculpture at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Julian Treuherz was formerly Keeper of Art Galleries, National Museums Liverpool. Matthew Beaumont is Lecturer in 19th-Century English and American Literature at University College London. Michael Freeman is Supernumerary Fellow and Lecturer in Human Geography at Mansfield College, Oxford University.

Directors' Foreword	p. 12
Acknowledgements	p. 14
Lenders to the Exhibition	p. 17
Notes to the Reader	p. 18
The Railway Age: An Introduction	p. 21
The Railway and Literature: Realism and the Phantasmagoric	p. 35
The Formative Years in Europe	p. 45
The Human Drama of the Railway	p. 83
Crossing Continents: America and Beyond	p. 119
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism	p. 155
States of Mind	p. 187
The Machine Age	p. 221
Checklist of the Exhibition	p. 259
Timeline	p. 272
Bibliography	p. 274
Index	p. 280
Image Credits	p. 287
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