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Title Fountains : splash and spectacle : water and design from the Renaissance to the present / edited by Marilyn Symmes ; [contributors] Kenneth Breisch .. [and others]..

Publication Info. New York : Rizzoli International Publication in association with Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 1998.

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  714 F82    Check Shelf
Description 208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
Note Catalog of an exhibition held at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, June 9-Oct. 11, 1998.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-201) and index.
Contents The rise and fall of water / Marilyn Symmes -- Fountains as refreshment / Marilyn Symmes with Maria Ann Conelli -- The fall and rise of the waters of Rome / Katherine Wentworth Rinne -- Fountains as metaphor / Naomi Miller -- The Bethesda fountain in New York City / Andrew Scott Dolkart -- 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 -- Fountains as spectacle at international expositions 1851-1915 / Kenneth Breisch -- 1925-1970 / Marilyn Symmes with Stephen Van Dyk -- Remembering the fountain of the planets at the New York World's Fair, 1964-1965 / Bart Barlow -- Fountains as commemoration / Marilyn Symmes -- Fountains as entertainment and pleasure / Maria Ann Conelli and Mariln Symmes -- The fountains at Chatsworth / Stephen Astley -- Swaying, sprinkling and splashing : the
fountains of Jean Tinguely / Paula Deitz -- Fountains as urban oases / Marc Treib.
Subject Fountains -- Exhibitions.
Added Author Symmes, Marilyn F.
Breisch, Kenneth A.
Cooper-Hewitt Museum.
ISBN 0847821005 hardcover
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