History of art Books
Johns Hopkins University Press Rethinking the Medieval Senses
Book SynopsisSpiegel, Johns Hopkins University; Eugene Vance, University of Washington; Gregor Vogt-Spira, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitat Greifswald; Rainer Warning, University of Munich; Heather Webb, Ohio State University; Michel Zink, College de France.Trade ReviewRethinking the Medieval Senses is a major contribution to our understanding of a fundamental aspect of medieval culture. It is throught-provoking and informative. -- Virginie Greene Clio The collection of essays edited by Nichols et al. is the fruit of cooperation between historians and literary scholars (mainly in the Romance languages) at American and European universities. -- Richard G. Newhauser Senses and Society 2009Table of ContentsPrologueIntroduction. Erudite Fascinations and Cultural Energies: How Much Can We Know about the Medieval Senses?Part I: HeritageChapter 1. Seeing God: Augustine, Sensation, and the Mind's EyeChapter 2. Common Sense: Greek, Arabic, LatinChapter 3. Senses, Imagination, and Literature: Some Epistemological ConsiderationsPart II: FascinationsChapter 4. The Critical Sense: Some Spanish ExamplesChapter 5. The Place of the SensesChapter 6. Seeing and Hearing in Ancient and Medieval EpiphanyPart III: Hidden EnergiesChapter 7. Perception, Cognition, and Volition in the Arcipreste de TalaveraChapter 8. Christian Sovereignty and Jewish FleshChapter 9. Paradoxes of the SensesChapter 10. Representation and Participation: Some Remarks on Medieval French DramaChapter 11. Blinding Sight: Some Observations on German Epics of the Thirteenth CenturyChapter 12. Blinded Avengers: Making Sense of Invisibility inCourtly Epic and Legal RitualPart IV: FramesChapter 13. Cardiosensory Impulses in Late Medieval SpiritualityChapter 14. "The Pupil of Your Eye": Vision, Language, and Poetry in Thirteenth-Century ParisContributors Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Henry Walters and Bernard Berenson Collector and
Book SynopsisArt collecting in America's Gilded Age was fraught with uncertainty and dubious business practices. In no other partnership is this more evident than that of Henry Walters, and Bernard Berenson, the era's preeminent connoisseur of Italian Renaissance painting. This title tells the story of this close yet contentious relationship.Trade ReviewA pointed account of the relationship between the famous connoisseur and the railroad magnate. -- Robert Messenger Wall Street Journal 2010 Surprisingly, this is the only book ever to focus on just one of Berenson's client relationships. For this and other reasons, every collector-especially the temple-building grandees at work today-should read Mazaroff 's compelling investigation Fine Art Connoisseur 2010Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsForewordAcknowledgmentsPrologue1. Berenson's Mission2. Walters's Cultivation3. One Copy on Top of Another4. The Massarenti Collection5. A Remarkable Acquisition6. The Sacrifice of Candor for Acclaim7. The Walters-Berenson Contract8. The Paintings Berenson Sold to Walters9. Berenson's Faustian Bargain with Duveen10. The Judgment of Berenson11. The Unfinished Catalogue12. A Museum in Repose13. The Line between Fact and Fiction14. Faded MemoriesAfterwordAppendixesa. Letters between Walters and Berensonb. Lists of PaintingNotesBibliographyIndex
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Walker & Company The Judgment of Paris The Revolutionary Decade
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Random House USA Inc Plagued by Fire
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Tuttle Publishing DottoDot ColorbyNumber Art Puzzles
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£11.69
Henry Holt & Company Inc The First AntiColoring Book
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University of Oklahoma Press From Republic to Empire
Book SynopsisPolitical image-making - especially from the Age of Augustus, when the Roman Republic evolved into a system capable of governing a vast, culturally diverse empire - is the focus of this masterful study of Roman culture.
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Discordant Memories Atomic Age Narratives and
Book SynopsisOn two separate days in August 1945, the US dropped atomic bombs over the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Alison Fields explores - through the lenses of multiple disciplines - ongoing memories of the two bombings. Enhanced by colour and black-and-white images, this book is an innovative contribution to memory studies and nuclear humanities.
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Beacon Press Sweet Movie
Book Synopsis“What gives us the right to listen to someone else’s body?” –Alisha Dietzman, from Sweet MovieA National Poetry Series winner selected by Victoria Chang, Sweet Movie confronts romantic and religious masochism to interrogate spiritual, sexual, and moral agencySweet Movie’s love poems and ekphrasis echo splintered versions of the same question: how do we navigate a world where the expectations of our performance—our presentation, our means of existence—are dictated by the viewers themselves?Mirroring the uncertain, unstable tenor of Dušan Makavejev’s controversial avant-garde film Sweet Movie (1974), the voices in Sweet Movie are equal parts docile, feverish, and violent. This collection reimagines a feminist approach to religious masochism to explore the ways women are denied agency by both their faith communities and by outsiders.Dietzman’s poems move t
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Louisiana State University Press The Architecture of LSU
Book SynopsisAuthor, professor, and architect J. Michael Desmond traces LSU's development from its pre-Civil War origins in Pineville, Louisiana, through its two downtown Baton Rouge locations, to its move to the Williams “Gartness” Plantation south of the city in the 1920s.
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LSU Press What Language to Say the Arts French Rhetoric and German Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century Ut Pictura Poesis
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Louisiana State University Press The Frescoes of Conrad Albrizio
Book SynopsisThe artist Conrad Albrizio, a New York City native who studied internationally, made his home in New Orleans for half a century. To the people of Louisiana and Alabama, he bestowed the lasting gift of large-scale public frescoes. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Carolyn Bercier analyses Albrizio's frescoes against the backdrop of his life.
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George Braziller Inc Golden Age of English Manuscript Painting
Book SynopsisForty colour plates illustrate some of the finest achievements of medieval painting, including the ''Lindesey Psalter'', the ''Oscott Psalter'', the ''Liber Regalis'', the ''Beaufont/Beauchamp Hours'' and the rarely reproduced ''Sherborne Missal''. A detailed commentary accompanies each of the plates.
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George Braziller Inc Words Script and Pictures Semiotics of Visual
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George Braziller Inc Unity of Picassos Art
Book SynopsisThis volume presents three of Meyer Schapiro''s finest essays on Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). Given that we esteem artists whose work epitomises particular styles, how can we likewise value Picasso, an artist who demonstrates a wide range of artistic styles? In his first essay, ''The Unity'' he finds unity through hidden associations among seemingly disparate works and unsuspected ties to Picasso''s personal experiences. This book offers comprehensive analyses of the 20th-century''s most prolific artist - Pablo Picasso. It will appeal to all those who have followed Picasso''s career and to those intrigued by the multi-faceted connections between art and social changes.
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George Braziller George Inness Writings and Reflections on Art and
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National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts Luminist Horizons
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George Braziller Erotik Im Fernen Osten Oder
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Early American Cartographies
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Northwestern University Press Voiceless Vanguard The Infantilist Aesthetic of
Book SynopsisOffers a new approach to the Russian avant-garde. It argues that central writers, artists, and theorists of the avant-garde self-consciously used an infantile aesthetic, as inspired by children's art, language, perspective, and logic, to accomplish the artistic renewal they were seeking in literature, theory, and art.
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Northwestern University Press Beardens Odyssey
Book SynopsisBorrowing from Romare Bearden's aesthetic palette and inspired by his Odysseus series, Bearden's Odyssey gathers for the first time poems from thirty-five of the most revered African diaspora poets in the United States. Poetic echoes come forth in themes of inspiration with historical intersections of one of the greatest visual artists of the twentieth centurTrade Review“When people talk of the great American artists I am irritated that they hardly mention Bearden. His name should be called along with people like Pollock—as he was clearly one of the greatest American artists of the twentieth century.”—Derek Walcott “Bearden’s Odyssey is a powerful exercise in coherence—a bringing together of text and image, a negotiation of identities. The collection opens new paths by which to explore Bearden’s most emblematic paintings. It will bring new audiences to both poetry and visual art.”—Jennifer Benka, executive director, Academy of American Poets
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Northwestern University Press The End of Chiraq
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of poems, rap lyrics, short stories, essays, interviews, and artwork about Chicago, the city that came to be known as Chiraq (Chicago + Iraq), and the people who live in its vibrant and occasionally violent neighbourhoods. This literary mixtape unpacks the meanings of Chiraq as both a vexed term and a space of possibility.
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Northwestern University Press Aesthetic Spaces
Book SynopsisFilms provide valuable spaces for aesthetic experimentation and analysis, for cinema's openness to other media has always allowed it to expand its own. In Aesthetic Spaces, Brigitte Peucker shows that when painterly or theatrical conventions are appropriated by the medium of film, the dissonant effects produced open it up to intermedial reflection and tell us a great deal about cinema itself.The films studied in these chapters include those by Abbas Kiarostami, Alfred Hitchcock, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, Carl Th. Dreyer, Peter Greenaway, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Rivette, Fritz Lang, F. W. Murnau, Lars von Trier, Spike Jonze, Éric Rohmer, Lech Majewski, and others. Where two media are in evidence in these films, there is usually a third, and often theater mediates between film and painting. Aesthetic Spaces interrogates issues of cinematic space and mise-en-scène from different but interconnected theoretical perspectives, organizing its chapters aTrade ReviewThis book is a meditation on cinema's hybrid or 'intermedial' status that proceeds through elegant, finely nuanced and elaborately detailed close readings of canonical films. Refreshingly, the book steers clear of fashionable discussions of intermediality and instead makes a case for cinema as an inherently, even ontologically intermedial art."" - John David Rhodes, author of Spectacle of Property: The House in American Film""Peucker is well known for her important scholarship on the relationship between cinema and art history, as well as for her prominence as a scholar of German film, and this book certainly contributes to both of these fields. Very few books in film studies take on film form so closely and with such sophisticated theoretical attention to the matter of representation."" - Rosalind Galt, author of Pretty: Film and the Decorative ImageTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Kiarostami’s Shirin and the Life of Cinema Chapter 1: Space Chapter 2: Spectator Chapter 3: Frame Chapter 4: Color Chapter 5: Props Chapter 6: Décor Chapter 7: Actor
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Chronicle Books Hatch Show Print The History of a Great American
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Chronicle Books Angela Adams Line Angela Adams Mini Journal Set
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Chronicle Books Manufractured
Book SynopsisConspicuous Transformation is the major trend in visual and material culture. Increasingly, a select group of artists, craftspeople, and designers are using an array of consumer goods as their raw material for object-making: athletic shoes, paper plates, plastic army men, pen and caps. This title features an array of these art and design projects.
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Random House USA Inc The Art of Rivalry
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The University Press of Kentucky Salvator Rosa in French Literature From the
Book SynopsisArranged in chronological order, with numerous quotations from French fiction, poetry, drama, art criticism, art history, literary history, and reference works, Salvator Rosa in French Literature forms a narrative account of the reception of Rosa's life and work in the world of French letters.Trade ReviewImpeccable scholarship...this will be the definitive study of Rosa in France. - Allan PascoTable of ContentsFishing for the [Mediating] Self: Identity and Storytelling in Big Fish Catwoman: Constructions of Identity and Power in Tim Burton's Batman Returns The Consolations and Dangers of Fantasy: Burton, Poe, and Vincent Johnny Depp is a Big Baby!: The Philosophical Significance of Tim Burton's Preoccupation with Childhood Consciousness in Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood Mars Attacks!: Burton, Tocqueville, and the Self-Organizing Power of the American People "Pinioned by a Chain of Reasoning"?: Anti-Intellectualism and Models of Rationality in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow Culture, Hermeneutics, and the Batman Burtonology: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Essences, Christmas, & Vincent Price A Symphony of Horror: the Sublime Synaesthesia of Sweeney Todd Tim Burton, Johnny Depp and the Fantastic It's Uncanny: Death in Tim Burton's Corpus Affect without Illusion: The Films of Edward D. Wood, Jr. after Ed Wood Little Burton Blue: Tim Burton and the Product(ion) of Color in the Fairy Tale Films The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride
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The University Press of Kentucky The Watercolors of Harlan Hubbard
Book SynopsisHarlan Hubbard (1900-1988), Kentucky writer, environmentalist and artist, spent many years trying to rediscover and revive the vanishing language of landscape in his watercolor paintings. Known for their sense of drifting movement and their depiction of the simple way of life for which Hubbard was known, they inexplicably remain his least-studied artworks, despite being some of the best evidence of Hubbard''s place in the history of landscape painting.The Watercolors of Harlan Hubbard not only argues Hubbard''s place in the art historical canon, but also highlight and analyze the artist''s own voice. In this unique collection, more than 200 watercolors are interspersed with anecdotes to present a personal meditation on the influence that Hubbard''s work has had on the lives of those who knew him.Table of ContentsPreface Foreword Personal Wilderness Buildings Railroads & People Boats Landscapes River Landscapes River Towns Bayous Western Trips Great Lakes Payne Hollow
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Rutgers University Press Art and the Subway
Book SynopsisExplores artistic production surrounding the world's most famous public transportation system, from just before its opening in 1904 onwards. Using images, this work offers perspectives on ways in which the subway has been used as a subject about which to make art, as a site within which to make art, and as a canvas upon which to make art.Table of ContentsContents Introduction Going Underground: Planning and Construction, to 1900 Subway Beautiful: Architecture Design and the Imagination, 1900-1904 "Come Take a Ride": Music Painting and Film,1900-1915 Futurism Underground: Modernist Painting, 1913-1929 Anything Goes in the Subway: Art and Social Realism, 1920-195 Race and the Subway: Painting and Illustration, 1920-1965 Hunters Spies and Voyeurs: Subway Photography, 1938-1956 Subway Art "Off the Wall": Maps, Assemblage, and Site-Specific Installation, 1966-2006 Chance in the Subway: Performance Art and Social Engagement, 1962-2001 "Words of the Prophets": Subway Graffiti 1969-1989 Armed for the Journey: Subway Photography, 1970-2002 "I Saw It in the BRT": Art and Advertising in the Subway 1926-1986 A "Living Museum": Public Art in the Subway 1973 to the Present Notes Index Copyright
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Rutgers University Press Junctures in Womens Leadership The Arts
Book SynopsisIn this third volume of the series Junctures: Case Studies in Women’s Leadership, Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin profile female leaders in music, theater, dance, and visual art. The diverse women included in Junctures in Women''s Leadership: The Arts have made their mark by serving as executives or founders of art organizations, by working as activists to support the arts, or by challenging stereotypes about women in the arts. The contributors explore several important themes, such as the role of feminist leadership in changing cultural values regarding inclusivity and gender parity, as well as the feminization of the arts and the power of the arts as cultural institutions. Amongst the women discussed are Bertha Honoré Palmer, Louise Noun, Samella Lewis, Julia Miles, Miriam Colón, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Bernice Steinbaum, Anne d’Harnoncourt, Martha Wilson, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Kim Berman, Gilane Tawadros, Joanna Smith, andTrade Review“There will never be too many books teaching Women’s Herstory. Brodsky and Olin’s case studies describe the outrageous and humiliating strangleholds all women have endured and continue to face. Brodsky and Olin champion us to reach our goals.” -- Elizabeth A. Sackler, PhD * Founder, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum *“New histories need to be written. Preserving stories that complicate and enrich mainstream narratives is vitally important, and the inspired and inspiring contributions groundbreaking women have made to our cultural world deserve to be celebrated. In addition to leading this charge themselves in their own remarkable careers, with the publication of Junctures in Women’s Leadership: The Arts, Judith Brodsky and Ferris Olin have given us the gift of expanding the canon through these remarkable case studies in creative leadership in the arts.” -- Catherine Morris * Sackler Senior Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Brooklyn Museum *“Here's a round of applause for Judith Brodsky and Ferris Olin, founders of the Rutgers Institute for Women and Art (now the Rutgers Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities, the first feminist art center on a university campus) and heartfelt thanks for Junctures in Women's Leadership: The Arts, their rich insights into generations of women leaders in the arts on the global stage. As arts leaders in their own right and as historians of the rich tradition to which they belong, Brodsky and Olin document feminist cultural history as, just as importantly, they continue to make it. We are doubly in their debt.” -- Nell Irvin Painter * Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, Princeton University, author of The History of White *"Quick to See and Quick to Lead: Women and Power in the Arts" by Stuart Mitchner * Town Topics *" Recommended." * Choice *"This much-needed volume, with its primary focus on visual arts professionals, brings attention to a group of women whose biographies have not been joined before....[Brodsky and Olin's] sound scholarship is essential to advancing the understanding about the contributions of these women as well as the general contributions of women in the arts. No similar books offer case studies on women leaders across different professions with this focus. Hopefully, more such accessible tomes will follow." * Woman's art Journal *"Reflections on Aging, Identity, and Social Justice in Potent Prints," by Ilene Dube * Hyperallergic *Table of Contents1 Bertha Honoré Palmer (1849-1918) Philanthropist, president of the Board of Lady Managers, Woman’s Building, World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893 2 Louise Noun (1908 – 2002) Philanthropist, art collector, scholar 3 Samella Lewis (1924-) Artist, art historian, arts administrator 4 Julia Miles (1930-) Theater director and producer; founder, Women’s Project Theater 5 Miriam Colón (1936-2017) Broadway and Hollywood film actress; founder, Puerto Rican Traveling Theater 6 Jaune Quick-To-See Smith (1940-) Artist and activist 7 Bernice Steinbaum (1941-) Gallerist and advocate for diversity 8 Anne d’Harnoncourt (1943-2008) Director, Philadelphia Museum of Art 9 Martha Wilson (1947-) Artist, activist, archivist; founder, Franklin Furnace Archive 10 Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (1950-) Choreographer; founder of the dance company, Urban Bush Women 11 Kim Berman (1960-) Artist, activist; founder, Artist Proof Studio and Phumani Paper, South Africa 12 Gilane Tawadros (1965-) Arts administrator; founding director, Institute for International Visual Arts (InIVA), United Kingdom 13 Veomanee Douangdala (1976-) and Joanne Smith (1976-) Social and cultural entrepreneurs, Laos
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Rutgers University Press Black Movements Performance and Cultural Politics
Book SynopsisAnalyses how artists and activists of recent decades reference earlier freedom movements in order to imagine and produce a more expansive and inclusive democracy. Through an exploration of the way that black movements create circuits connecting people across space and time, Colbert offers important interventions into performance, literary, diaspora, and American studies.Trade Review"Colbert engages with cultural narratives that cross disciplinary boundaries; Black Movements will influence the field because it offers a unique way to think about processes and products of black artistic thought." -- Anita Gonzalez * University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and co-author of Black Performance Theory *"With rigor and creativity, Soyica Diggs Colbert weaves together debates in performance studies, black studies, and American studies. Black Movements offers a new way to think about race, time, history, and performance in the contemporary moment and will have a lasting influence." -- Shane Vogel * author of The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance *"It is a significant book, one that should be read alongside the scholarship of Saidiya Hartman, Daphne Brooks, Amber Jamilla Musser and other black feminist thinkers. Like Beyoncé reflecting back on Josephine Baker, Black Movements’s looks to the legacies of black performance in order to imagine and build black futures." * Journal of American Drama and Theatre *"Colbert’s 2017 book is especially exigent because it challenges the fixity of black death in a contemporary moment where black life is continuously expected to end abruptly. Whether this anticipation comes from video circulations of encounters with police or the Sate’s neglect of a predominantly black city’s contaminated water system, Colbert challenges this anticipated permanence to black death in Black Movements via analyses of literature, popular culture, and history. In doing so, she presents freedom as a multimodal phenomenon – through performance, film, literature, music, and prophecy." * Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Webs of Affiliation1 Flying Africans in Spaceships2 Entrapping and Ensnaring Entanglements3 Prophesying in Octavia Butler’s Parable Series4 MarchingEpilogue: “Why do you look for the living among the dead?”: Locating the Future of Black Studies NotesBibliographyIndex
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Ohio State University Press Tales from La Vida
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Ohio State University Press The Color of Paper
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University of Arizona Press Chicana and Chicano Art
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University of Arizona Press Creating Aztlán
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University of Arizona Press Border Spaces
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Artificial Kingdom
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University of Alabama Press Stability and Change in Guale Indian Pottery
Book SynopsisThrough a comprehensive study of changing pottery attributes, this text documents the clash of Spanish and Native American cultures in the 16th-century southeastern United States. By studying the ceramic traditions of the Guale Indians, it provides evidence of change in Native American lifeways.
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The University of Alabama Press Grandeur of the Everyday The Paintings of Dale
Book SynopsisThe first full-length volume dedicated to the life and work of Dale Kennington - an accomplished master of contemporary American realism. Grandeur of the Everyday is a treasure trove of her most accomplished creations and includes more than eighty-five examples of both Kennington's easel paintings on canvas and her freestanding wooden folding screens.Trade ReviewDale Kennington's art of the everyday rises to the level of the extraordinary because of her sure handling of the elements of painting: composition, perspective, palette. It is not hyperbole to say that Dale Kennington is, for those many of us who admire and respect her work, a regional and even a national treasure."" - William U. Eiland, Director of the Georgia Museum of Art
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Fanning the Flames Propaganda in Modern Japan
Book SynopsisBrings together a range of scholarly essays and collected materials detailing how Japanese propaganda played an active role in fostering national identity and mobilizing grassroots participation in the country's transformation and wartime activities, starting with the First Sino-Japanese War to the end of World War II.
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Ohio University Press Art As Image Prints and Promotion in Cincinnati
Book SynopsisIllustrates the spectacular technological and artistic developments in the nineteenth-century printing trade from the earliest days of the Old Northwest Territory.
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MJ - Ohio University Press The Ceramic Career of M. Louise McLaughlin
Book SynopsisA tribute to a woman artist who rose to one of the highest positions in her field.
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MJ - Ohio University Press The Ceramic Career of M. Louise McLaughlin
Book SynopsisA tribute to a woman artist who rose to one of the highest positions in her field.
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MJ - Ohio University Press Incidental Architect William Thornton and the
Book SynopsisWhile the majority of scholarship on early Washington focuses on its political and physical development, in Incidental Architect Gordon S. Brown describes the intellectual and social scene of the 1790s and early 1800s through the lives of a prominent couple whose cultural aspirations served as both model and mirror for the city’s own.WhenTrade Review“At a 1962 Nobel Prize dinner President John F. Kennedy famously remarked that his guests constituted the greatest gathering of knowledge at the White House since Thomas Jefferson dined alone. He might have said, since Thomas Jefferson dined with William Thornton. Anyway, that is the impression one gets from Gordon S. Brown’s convincingly argued and gracefully written account of early Washington, D.C., and one of its most memorable residents.” * The Journal of Southern History *
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MJ - Ohio University Press Incidental Architect William Thornton and the
Book SynopsisWhile the majority of scholarship on early Washington focuses on its political and physical development, in Incidental Architect Gordon S. Brown describes the intellectual and social scene of the 1790s and early 1800s through the lives of a prominent couple whose cultural aspirations served as both model and mirror for the city’s own.WhenTrade Review“At a 1962 Nobel Prize dinner President John F. Kennedy famously remarked that his guests constituted the greatest gathering of knowledge at the White House since Thomas Jefferson dined alone. He might have said, since Thomas Jefferson dined with William Thornton. Anyway, that is the impression one gets from Gordon S. Brown’s convincingly argued and gracefully written account of early Washington, D.C., and one of its most memorable residents.” * The Journal of Southern History *
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MJ - Ohio University Press The Engraving Trade in Early Cincinnati
Book SynopsisExamines the vibrant engraving industry that helped fuel the growth of the “Queen City” and established its influence as the midwestern center for the print and engraving trade.Trade ReviewAn “excellent and finely detailed history, presenting a professional artisan legacy in accessible, user-friendly terms.” * The Midwest Book Review *“Mr. O’Brien quickly comes across as an astute historian with an eye for ascertaining and an ability for explaining not only the origins of the engraving trade in Cincinnati, but the series of events that inspired the trade.” * Imprint: Journal of the American Historical Print Collectors Society *“A book that rewards looking.” * WVXU-NPR, “Around Cincinnati” *
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University of Missouri Press The Sensuous Life of Adolf Dehn
Book SynopsisAdolf Dehn belongs to a group of distinguished midcentury American artists who were eclipsed by Abstract Expressionism and the following movements in American art. In this wide-ranging biography, Henry Adams explores how a once central figure can come to be forgotten.Trade ReviewA wonderful contribution to the field of art history, bringing to light biographical details of an important twentieth-century American artist who is not well known today." —Klare Scarborough, Director and Chief Curator, La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia;"Adams' compelling monograph reveals why expanded critical thinking is merited for lesser known American masters such as Dehn. Sensing salutary signals from Dehn's illustrious career now lighting up the radar screen, we enjoy the contributions of a remarkable talent." —Philip Eliasoph, PhD, Professor of Art History, Fairfield University; "A spirited study of an under-appreciated American artist. Adams combs secondary and new sources to detail the role Dehn’s parents, siblings, lovers, and many friends had on his lithography, especially its sensuous aspects. Adams also provides the most thorough analysis to date of Dehn’s post-World War Two watercolors of subjects of Mexico, Haiti, India, Afghanistan, West Africa, Ireland and Italy. Dehn’s intense relationship with his wife and travel partner, Virginia Dehn, is riveting." —Richard Cox, Professor Emeritus of Early Modern Art History, Louisiana State University
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