Springboard in the Pond An Intimate History of the Swimming Pool

Name: Springboard in the Pond An Intimate History of the Swimming Pool
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ISBN: 9780262220590

ISBN-10: 0262220598

ISBN-13: 9780262220590

Edition: 1999

Authors: Thomas A. Van Leeuwen

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In The Springboard in the Pond, Thomas van Leeuwen looks at a familiar hole, the domestic swimming pool, and discovers an icon indispensable to the reading of twentieth-century modernism.

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 12/11/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 330
Size: 10.50" wide x 10.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 3.388
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Fleeing and Flying: Dreams, Tactics, and the Floating Swimming Pool



Lords of the Swan I: From Maison de Plaisance to Playhouse



Lords of the Swan II: The Playhouse, the Pool House, and the Pool



Lords of the Swan III: W.R. Hearst, a West Coast Lohengrin



The Aquatic Ape and Hollywood: Love, Death, and the Swimming Pool



Perverse Hydrophobia: The Medusa Complex, or the Dark Side of the Pool



The Zoo in the Pool


Bibliography


Index