The Springboard in the Pond: An Intimate History of the Swimming Pool Book

Name: The Springboard in the Pond: An Intimate History of the Swimming
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The Springboard in the Pond: An Intimate History of the Swimming Pool, Although others have written eloquently on the relationship of water to built form,until now no one has investigated the swimming pool as a quintessentially modern and American space,reflecting America's infatuation with hygiene, skin, and recreation. In , The Springboard in the Pond: An Intimate History of the Swimming Pool

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The Springboard in the Pond: An Intimate History of the Swimming Pool
Written by author Thomas A. P. van Leeuwen
Published by MIT Press, February 2000
Although others have written eloquently on the relationship of water to built form,until now no one has investigated the swimming pool as a quintessentially modern and American space,reflecting America's infatuation with hygiene, skin, and recreation. In
In The Springboard in the Pond, Thomas van Leeuwen looks at the domestic swimming pool and discovers an icon indispensable to the reading of twentieth-century modernism.Library JournalDescending from van Leeuwen's towering The Skyward Tren

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Preface
Introduction 2
Fleeing and Flying: Dreams, Tactics, and the Floating Swimming Pool 13
Lords of the Swan I: From Maison de Plaisance to Playhouse 51
Lords of the Swan II: The Playhouse, the Pool House, and the Pool 77
Lords of the Swan III: W. R. Hearst, a West Coast Lohengrin 111
The Aquatic Ape and Hollywood: Love, Death, and the Swimming Pool 155
Perverse Hydrophobia: The Medusa Complex, or the Dark Side of the Pool 227
The Zoo in the Pool 263
Bibliography 298
Index 310

Title: The Springboard in the Pond: An Intimate History of the Swimming Pool

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reviewed The Springboard in the Pond: An Intimate History of the Swimming Pool on November 29, 2019

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This book was one giant listcicle. The same small bits of information are presented over and over. I didn't really feel empowered to make any change... since I still don't know where to begin.

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	Preface
	Introduction	2
	Fleeing and Flying: Dreams, Tactics, and the Floating Swimming Pool	13
	Lords of the Swan I: From Maison de Plaisance to Playhouse	51
	Lords of the Swan II: The Playhouse, the Pool House, and the Pool	77
	Lords of the Swan III: W. R. Hearst, a West Coast Lohengrin	111
	The Aquatic Ape and Hollywood: Love, Death, and the Swimming Pool	155
	Perverse Hydrophobia: The Medusa Complex, or the Dark Side of the Pool	227
	The Zoo in the Pool	263
	Bibliography	298
	Index	310