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American Portrait

Author : PBS
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063098911
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book American Portrait written by PBS and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the popular and revolutionary PBS multiplatform documentary project, an inspiring and striking photographic portrait that brilliantly captures the tumultuous, historic year that was 2020, offering an intimate look at the heart and soul of our national life and what it means to be an American today, revealed through the stories of ordinary people from sea to shining sea. Everyone has a story . . . In January 2020, in celebration of its 50th anniversary, PBS launched an ambitious national storytelling project, American Portrait, inviting people across the country to participate in a national conversation about what it means to be an American today. The multiplatform experience, including a television series that will air on PBS stations nationwide in January 2021, has created a communal voice through the individual stories of participants—each one a unique stitch in the beautiful, diverse quilt that is America. A vivid yet nuanced snapshot of who we are, this visually striking companion volume features more than 400 entries and photographs, all which began with an answer to a simple cue: My American story started when . . . You don’t know what it’s like to . . . My greatest challenge is . . . The tradition I carry on is . . . I was raised to believe . . . What keeps me up at night is . . . I took a risk when . . . When I step outside my door . . . Most days I feel . . . Told by people of all ages, orientations, and walks of life, these unique stories of joy, adversity, love, sacrifice, grief, sharing, triumph, and grace, centered on the themes of family, work, fun, faith, and community, illuminate the struggles, hopes, dreams, and convictions of Americans today. The more we share with our fellow citizens, the more we can see a real, complex, and fascinating representation of our country that is far richer and deeper than headlines and elections tell us. As intriguing, thoughtful, and distinct as the nation it embodies, American Portrait is a photographic manifestation of Walt Whitman’s immortal words, “I am large. I contain multitudes”—and a vital and ultimately hopeful reminder that what we all share is much greater and enduring than what may divide us.

Love and Loss

Author : Robin Jaffee Frank
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300087246
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Love and Loss written by Robin Jaffee Frank and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most often, portrait miniatures were painted in watercolor on thin disks of ivory. They were sometimes worn as jewelry, sometimes framed to be viewed privately. Many were painted by specialists, although renowned easel artists - including Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, and Charles Willson Peale - also created them to commemorate births, engagements, marriages, deaths, and other joinings or separations. The book traces the development of this exquisite art form, revealing the close ties between the history of the miniature and the history of American private life."--BOOK JACKET.

The Obama Portraits

Author : Taína Caragol
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691203288
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Obama Portraits written by Taína Caragol and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unveiling the unconventional : Kehinde Wiley's portrait of Barack Obama / Taína Caragol -- "Radical empathy" : Amy Sherald's portrait of Michelle Obama / Dorothy Moss -- The Obama portraits, in art history and beyond / Richard J. Powell -- The Obama portraits and the National Portrait Gallery as a site of secular pilgrimage / Kim Sajet -- The presentation of the Obama portraits : a transcript of the unveiling ceremony.

The Portrait and the Book

Author : Megan Walsh
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609385020
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Portrait and the Book written by Megan Walsh and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Franklin's portraits and colonial printing -- Phillis Wheatley and the durability of the author portrait -- Nationalist portraiture, magazines, and political books -- Picturing the seduction heroine in the U.S -- Gothic portraiture in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland and Ormond

Native American Portraits

Author : Nancy Hathaway
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780877017578
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Native American Portraits written by Nancy Hathaway and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 1990-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over one hundred photographs from the renowned Kurt Koegler collection of Native American portraits taken between the end of the Civil War and the end of World War I are featured in this powerful compendium depicting a proud and defeated people. Native American Portraits presents a factual, anecdotal, and visual history of the evolving artistry and technology of a century of photographers, as well as of the tribes whose vanishing trappings and traditions they sought to capture with their craft. The photographers -- William Henry Jackson, Camillus Fly, Carleton Watkins, and Lee Moorhouse, among scores of others -- were intrepid adventurers, fiercely committed to their work, who hauled hundreds of pounds of photographic equipment across the mountains and faced many dangers; their subjects -- including such important warriors as Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, Red Cloud, Geronimo, and Chief Gall (who led the Indians to victory against Custer) -- appear venerable, dignified, and beaten. Fascinating and provocative, this richly illustrated and painstakingly annotated volume documents the intersection of photography in its infancy and Native American culture in precipitous decline.

American Portrait Inventory

Author : Historical Records Survey (Mass.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Portrait Inventory written by Historical Records Survey (Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Portrait Gallery

Author : John Livingston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Portrait Gallery written by John Livingston and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pictures of People

Author : Pamela Allara
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584650362
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Pictures of People written by Pamela Allara and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2000 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant chronicle of the life and work of a prolific painter and bohemian eccentric.

This is a Portrait If I Say So

Author : Anne Collins Goodyear
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300211937
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book This is a Portrait If I Say So written by Anne Collins Goodyear and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth exploration of the rise and evolution of abstract, symbolic, and conceptual portraiture in American art This groundbreaking book traces the history of portraiture as a site of radical artistic experimentation, as it shifted from a genre based on mimesis to one stressing instead conceptual and symbolic associations between artist and subject. Featuring over 100 color illustrations of works by artists from Charles Demuth, Marcel Duchamp, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O'Keeffe to Janine Antoni, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Jasper Johns, and Glenn Ligon, this timely publication probes the ways we think about and picture the self and others. With particular focus on three periods during which non-mimetic portraiture flourished--1912-25, 1961-70, and 1990-the present--the authors investigate issues related to technology, sexuality, artist networks, identity politics, and social media, and explore the emergence of new models for the visual representation of identity. Taking its title from a 1961 work by Robert Rauschenberg--a telegram that stated, "This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so"--this book unites paintings, sculpture, photography, and text portraits that challenge the genre in significant, often playful ways and question the convention, as well as the limits, of traditional portrayal.

Portrait of America

Author : Jerrold Hirsch
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807854891
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book Portrait of America written by Jerrold Hirsch and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How well do we know our country? Whom do we include when we use the word "American"? These are not just contemporary issues but recurring and seemingly permanent questions Americans have asked themselves throughout their history-and questions that were ad

American Son

Author : Richard Blow
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312988999
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book American Son written by Richard Blow and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-11-18 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last defining years of John F. Kennedy, Jr. At thirty-four, John F. Kennedy, Jr. was still a man in search of his destiny. In 1995, all that changed when Kennedy launched George, a bold and irreverent magazine about American politics. Over the next four years, Kennedy's passionate commitment to the magazine-- and to the ideals it stood for-- transformed him. One witness to this transformation was Richard Blow, an editor and writer who joined George several months before the release of its first issue. During their four years together, Blow observed his boss rise to enormous challenges-- starting a risky new business, managing the pressures that attend a high public profile, and beginning life as a married man. In American Son, with Blow as our guide, we see the many sides of Kennedy's personality: the rebel who fearlessly takes on politicians and pundits; the gentleman who sends gracious thank-you notes to his colleagues for their wedding gifts; the vulnerable son struggling under the weight of a mythic family legacy. Simply and sympathetically, Richard Blow offers an affecting portrait of a complicated man at last coming into his own-- sometimes gracefully, sometimes under siege, never without the burden of great expectations. #1 New York Times Bestseller; includes a new introduction

The McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians

Author : James David Horan
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780517500538
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians written by James David Horan and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1972 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Perfect Likeness

Author : Cincinnati Art Museum
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300115806
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Perfect Likeness written by Cincinnati Art Museum and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diminutive marvels of artistry and fine craftsmanship, portrait miniatures reveal a wealth of information within their small frames. They can tell tales of cultural history and biography, of people and their passions, of evolving tastes in jewelry, fashion, hairstyles, and the decorative arts. Unlike many other genres, miniatures have a tradition in which amateurs and professionals have operated in parallel and women artists have flourished as professionals. This richly illustrated book presents approximately 180 portrait miniatures selected from the holdings of the Cincinnati Art Museum, the largest and most diverse collection of its kind in North America. The book stresses the continuity of stylistic tradition across Europe and America as well as the vitality of the portrait miniature format through more than four centuries. A detailed catalogue entry, as well as a concise artist biography, appears for each object. Essays examine various aspects of miniature painting, of the depiction of costume in miniatures, and of the allied art of hair work.

Portrait of American Jews

Author : Samuel C Heilman
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295974712
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Portrait of American Jews written by Samuel C Heilman and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 14 papers that suggest how educators can develop and implement AIDS education programs in public schools, and provide for the fair treatment of students infected with the virus. They consider urban and rural high schools, AIDS/HIV education in teacher training, student support groups, and criteria for evaluating an AIDS curriculum. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

George and Laura

Author : Christopher Andersen
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061032247
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book George and Laura written by Christopher Andersen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on research and confidential material to offer a portrait of the marriage of the President George Bush and First Lady Laura Bush.

American Portraits, 1979-1989

Author : Leon Borensztein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781590053058
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book American Portraits, 1979-1989 written by Leon Borensztein and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Children of Grass

Author : B. A. Van Sise
Publisher : Schaffner Press
ISBN 13 : 9781943156825
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book Children of Grass written by B. A. Van Sise and published by Schaffner Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With this fascinating synthesis of word and image, internationally renowned photographer B.A. Van Sise offers a visually stimulating anthology that will enchant lovers of both poetry and photography. At times whimsical, surreal, challenging, enigmatic, joyful and sobering, these portraits--running adjacent to poems by each of their subjects--highlight some of the most influential poets of our time and celebrate creativity as only these poets in collaboration with Van Sise could convey. Children of Grass is also a timely homage to Walt Whitman--of whom Van Sise is a relative--and his masterpiece, "Leaves of Grass," during this, the 200th anniversary of his birth. Children of Grass, will, as a contemporary homage to Whitman, stand as a lasting tribute to the vitality and creativity that flourishes in our country."--Publisher's website.