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Author : George Skinner McKearin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book American Glass written by George Skinner McKearin and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Stuart Gordon
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300226691
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book American Glass written by John Stuart Gordon and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Glass can be decorative or utilitarian, and its forms often reflect technological innovations and social change. Drawing on an insightful selection from the Yale University Art Gallery and other collections at Yale, American Glass illuminates the vital and often intimate roles that glass has played in the nation's art and culture. Spectacularly illustrated, the publication showcases eighteenth-century mold-blown vessels, nineteenth-century pressed glass, innovative studio work, and luminous stained-glass windows by John La Farge and Louis Comfort Tiffany, the latter reproduced as a lush gatefold. These are considered alongside beguiling objects that broaden our expectations of glass and speak to the centrality of the medium in American life, including one of the oldest complex microscopes in the United States, an early Edison light bulb, glass-plate photography, jewelry, and more. With an essay on the history of collecting American glass and discussions of each object that present new scholarship, this engaging book tells the long and rich history of glass in America--from prehistoric minerals to contemporary sculptures"--Dust jacket front flap.
Author : Brian Alexander
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250085810
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Glass House written by Brian Alexander and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers in Their Own Land WINNER OF THE OHIOANA BOOK AWARDS AND FINALIST FOR THE 87TH CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: New York Post • Newsweek • The Week • Bustle • Books by the Banks Book Festival • Bookauthority.com The Wall Street Journal: "A devastating portrait...For anyone wondering why swing-state America voted against the establishment in 2016, Mr. Alexander supplies plenty of answers." Laura Miller, Slate: "This book hunts bigger game. Reads like an odd?and oddly satisfying?fusion of George Packer’s The Unwinding and one of Michael Lewis’ real-life financial thrillers." The New Yorker : "Does a remarkable job." Beth Macy, author of Factory Man: "This book should be required reading for people trying to understand Trumpism, inequality, and the sad state of a needlessly wrecked rural America. I wish I had written it." In 1947, Forbes magazine declared Lancaster, Ohio the epitome of the all-American town. Today it is damaged, discouraged, and fighting for its future. In Glass House, journalist Brian Alexander uses the story of one town to show how seeds sown 35 years ago have sprouted to give us Trumpism, inequality, and an eroding national cohesion. The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world’s largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster’s society was built. As Glass House unfolds, bankruptcy looms. With access to the company and its leaders, and Lancaster’s citizens, Alexander shows how financial engineering took hold in the 1980s, accelerated in the 21st Century, and wrecked the company. We follow CEO Sam Solomon, an African-American leading the nearly all-white town’s biggest private employer, as he tries to rescue the company from the New York private equity firm that hired him. Meanwhile, Alexander goes behind the scenes, entwined with the lives of residents as they wrestle with heroin, politics, high-interest lenders, low wage jobs, technology, and the new demands of American life: people like Brian Gossett, the fourth generation to work at Anchor Hocking; Joe Piccolo, first-time director of the annual music festival who discovers the town relies on him, and it, for salvation; Jason Roach, who police believed may have been Lancaster’s biggest drug dealer; and Eric Brown, a local football hero-turned-cop who comes to realize that he can never arrest Lancaster’s real problems.
Author : Lloyd E. Herman
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Glass written by Lloyd E. Herman and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glass is one of the world's oldest materials for art and, in America, one of the newest. In the United States in the last 30 years, glass has emerged as a vital component of America's visual arts. Glass, basically sand melted to a liquid with the consistency of honey, can be blown into fragile bubbles, cast into sculptural architectural components, fused, painted, carved, and engraved, to name only a few techniques in the glass artist's vocabulary. This survey includes recent examples of art in glass by 13 artists selected from more than a thousand in the United States. They follow no single trend or tradition but draw freely from the world and its visual history. Whether their art takes inspiration from Egyptian canopic jars, medieval stained-glass windows, or Venetian glass techniques, American artists working in glass use the world for their sketchbooks and are masters of their art.
Author : James Measell
Publisher : Antique Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781570800498
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Great American Glass of the Roaring 20s & Depression Era written by James Measell and published by Antique Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is the first volume of a series designed to provide a comprehensive overview, in color, of American glass from the 1920s and 1930s"-- Introduction.
Author : Brent D. Glass
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451682034
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book 50 Great American Places written by Brent D. Glass and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one-of-a-kind guide to fifty of the most important cultural and historic sites in the United States guaranteed to fascinate, educate, and entertain—selected and described by the former director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. From Massachusetts to Florida to Washington to California, 50 Great American Places takes you on a journey through our nation’s history. Sharing the inside stories of sites as old as Mesa Verde (Colorado) and Cahokia (Illinois) and as recent as Silicon Valley (California) and the Mall of America (Minnesota), each essay provides the historical context for places that represent fundamental American themes: the compelling story of democracy and self-government; the dramatic impact of military conflict; the powerful role of innovation and enterprise; the inspiring achievements of diverse cultural traditions; and the defining influence of the land and its resources. Expert historian Brent D. Glass explores these themes by connecting places, people, and events and reveals a national narrative that is often surprising, sometimes tragic, and always engaging—complete with photographs, websites for more information, and suggestions for other places nearby worth visiting. Sites you would expect to read about—in Boston, New York, and Washington, DC—are here, as well as plenty of surprises, such as the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, or Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, or the Village Green in Hudson, Ohio; less obvious places that, together with the more well-known destinations, collectively tell the story of America. For families who want to take a trip that is both educational and entertaining, for history enthusiasts, or anyone curious about our country’s greatest places, this book is the perfect guide.
Author : Jane Shadel Spillman
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 9780517573242
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (732 download)
Download or read book Masterpieces of American Glass written by Jane Shadel Spillman and published by Crown. This book was released on 1990 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spectacular full-color photographs and a fascinating text trace the history of glassmaking in America, from the functional bottles, bowls, flasks, goblets, and oil lamps of colonial times to stunning pieces of contemporary glass art. 140 full-color photographs.
Author : Ruth Webb Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Glass Cup Plates written by Ruth Webb Lee and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classified check list and historical treatise.
Author : Marvin D. Schwartz
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Collectors' Guide to Antique American Glass written by Marvin D. Schwartz and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1969 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are curious about the fuss some people make about American glass, if you are a collector who has concentrated on a single phase of your hobby, or if you are a student of Americana who would like to see how glass relates to the rest of the decorative arts, this book was written for you.
Author : Jane Shadel Spillman
Publisher : Antique Collectors Club Dist
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The American Cut Glass Industry written by Jane Shadel Spillman and published by Antique Collectors Club Dist. This book was released on 1996 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to present new information about the late 19th & early 20th century cut glass industry in Corning, New York. The book focuses on T. G. Hawkes & Co because of the recent discovery of the latter's archival materials, 1880-1890.
Author : John A. Shuman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781574324822
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (248 download)
Download or read book The Collectorʼs Encyclopedia of American Art Glass written by John A. Shuman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to identifying a valuing American art glass that includes more than 150 images, alphabetized descriptive glass entries, values, and advice for collectors.
Author : Darryl Reilly
Publisher : Krause Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780873494380
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (943 download)
Download or read book Early American Pattern Glass written by Darryl Reilly and published by Krause Publications. This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers nearly 350 patterns for Pattern Glass pieces with alternate names, original production numbers, and reproduction information. Features more than 20,000 listings with detailed descriptions including size, inscriptions, color, appearance, dates, and values.
Author : M. J. Madigan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Steuben Glass written by M. J. Madigan and published by . This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful presentation of the rich visual history of Steuben glass told through beautiful photographs, this volume presents the definitive guide for the glass collector or art historian. 3,000 illustrations.
Author : Kyle Husfloen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870696121
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (961 download)
Download or read book Collector's Guide to American Pressed Glass, 1825-1915 written by Kyle Husfloen and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of the history of American pressed glass, offers advice on collecting, storing, and displaying pressed glass, and looks at representative pieces and patterns
Author : J. D. Glass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781602820029
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book American Goth written by J. D. Glass and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lesbian romance. Trapped by an unsuspected inheritance, the gift of her fathers blood, guided only by the guardian who holds the secret to her future, Samantha Cray must enter an arcane new world where why she fights to fulfill her destiny.
Author : Roy L. Brooks
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300227612
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Racial Glass Ceiling written by Roy L. Brooks and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling study of a subtle and insidious form of racial inequality in American law and culture. Why does racial equality continue to elude African Americans even after the election of a black president? Liberals blame white racism while conservatives blame black behavior. Both define the race problem in socioeconomic terms, mainly citing jobs, education, and policing. Roy Brooks, a distinguished legal scholar, argues that the reality is more complex. He defines the race problem African Americans face today as a three-headed hydra involving socioeconomic, judicial, and cultural conditions. Focusing on law and culture, Brooks defines the problem largely as racial subordination—“the act of impeding racial progress in pursuit of nonracist interests.” Racial subordination is little understood and underacknowledged, yet it produces devastating and even deadly racial consequences that affect both poor and socioeconomically successful African Americans. Brooks addresses a serious problem, in many ways more dangerous than overt racism, and offers a well-reasoned solution that draws upon the strongest virtues America has exhibited to the world.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1554 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book American Glass Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
