Railway and Arts: New issue of Des Rails

divendres, 5 de juliol del 2013

New issue of Des Rails

The new issue of Des Rails, the French web magazine on railway literature, is available on its website from April 15th 2013. Includes stories, poems and photographs. It can be read or downloaded here.

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Railway and Arts

Since its inception, the railroad has kept the interest of the artists. John C. Bourne represented in his prints and drawings the enormous engineering work of the first British lines and painters such as Gustave Caillebotte or Dario Regoyos captured in their canvas European landscape transformed by the new method of transportation. The novelists, from Tolstoy to Zola, from Dickens to Oller, used the railroad as a setting in their works. The poets, such as William Wordsworth and Melchor de Palau, glossed the changes that the railroad caused in lives and property. The cinema, from its first frames, took it as a stage and protagonist. The music has found in the rattle of the train the basis for their workers popular songs, the patterns of Winton Marsalis jazz and the basis for the symphonic works by Arthur Honegger. The illustration and poster have produced memorable works to promote certain routes. This tradition has not been broken, survives in graphic novels, movies, sculptures and railway themed poster and, more recently, in electronic art and video games. All that is the subject of this blog.