In the mid-1860s, as the Union Pacific Railroad headed westward from Nebraska, another company, the Central Pacific, pushed eastward from California. Their goal was to meet somewhere in between, forming a single railway line that would bridge the continent. That historic meeting took place in May 1869 in northern Utah, and photographer Andrew J. Russell was there to document the historic event. His work resulted in one of the most important photos...

This book discusses the history of sculpture, from the Stone Age through the twentieth century, and presents information on reliefs, freestanding statues and figurines, and twentieth-century's minimalism.

Examines the myth of the cyclops, was it real or fictional?