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: 9780262720328

ISBN-10: 0262720329

ISBN-13: 9780262720328

Edition: 2000 (Reprint)

Authors: Thomas A. P. 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: $7.75
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/28/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 330
Size: 10.25" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.530
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