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Amon Carter

Author : Brian A. Cervantez
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806163291
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Amon Carter written by Brian A. Cervantez and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised in a one-room log cabin in a small North Texas town, Amon G. Carter (1879–1955) rose to become the founder and publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, a seat of power from which he relentlessly promoted the city of Fort Worth, amassed a fortune, and established himself as the quintessential Texan of his era. The first in-depth, scholarly biography of this outsize character and civic booster, Amon Carter: A Lone Star Life chronicles a remarkable life and places it in the larger context of state and nation. Though best known for the Star-Telegram, Carter also established WBAP, Fort Worth’s first radio station, which in 1948 became the first television station in the Southwest. He was responsible for bringing the headquarters of what would become American Airlines to Fort Worth and for securing government funding for a local aircraft factory that evolved into Lockheed Martin. Historian Brian A. Cervantez has drawn on Texas Christian University’s rich collection of Carter papers to chart Carter’s quest to bring business and government projects to his adopted hometown, enterprises that led to friendships with prominent national figures such as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Will Rogers, H. L. Mencken, and John Nance Garner. After making millions of dollars in the oil business, Carter used his wealth to fund schools, hospitals, museums, churches, parks, and camps. His numerous philanthropic efforts culminated in the Amon G. Carter Foundation, which still supports cultural and educational endeavors throughout Texas. He was a driving force behind the establishment of Texas Tech University, a major contributor to Texas Christian University, a key figure in the creation of Big Bend National Park, and an art lover whose collection of the works of Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell served as the foundation of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Amon Carter: A Lone Star Life testifies to the singular character and career of one man whose influence can be seen throughout the cultural and civic life of Fort Worth, Texas, and the American Southwest to this day.

Amon, the Life of Amon Carter, Sr., of Texas

Author : Jerry Flemmons
Publisher : Jenkins Publishing Company (TX)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amon, the Life of Amon Carter, Sr., of Texas written by Jerry Flemmons and published by Jenkins Publishing Company (TX). This book was released on 1978 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amon G. Carter Sr., a legendary figure in Texas history, was for most of his life Fort Worths leading citizen and champion. Mr. Carters will provided for the establishment of a museum in Fort Worth devoted to American art. As a youth, I was denied the advantages which go with the possession of money, he stated in the will. I am endeavoring to give to those who have not had such advantages, but who aspire to the higher and finer attributes of life, those opportunities which were denied to me. Without the dedication of Mr. Carter and his family, the Amon Carter would not have become the leading cultural institution it is today.

Imagined Realism

Author : The Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781477323762
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Imagined Realism written by The Amon Carter Museum of American Art and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first major publication on the art and lives of twentieth-century Fort Worth artists Scott (1942–2011) and Stuart (1942–2006) Gentling. Prolific modern-day Renaissance men, the brothers created an extensive body of landscapes; portraits of regional and national luminaries; historical studies ranging from a visual reconstruction of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan to subjects drawn from the French and American Revolutions; and natural history illustrations of the flora and fauna of Texas. Realist painters, they drew inspiration from past masters such as Jacques-Louis David and John James Audubon, and they corresponded and collaborated with contemporaries such as Andrew Wyeth and Ed Ruscha. The Gentling brothers’ place within the canon of twentieth-century American art is established here. Along with 290 images, including 120 plates, the book includes five essays, two by scholars Erika Doss of the University of Notre Dame and Barbara Mundy of Fordham University; a trio of Carter museum curators provide deep analyses of the Gentlings’ artistic process, the output of their fifty-year career, and a chronology of their lives; plus several brief and incisive takes on specific aspects of the brothers’ multifaceted art and lives are featured throughout.

Charles M. Russell

Author : Rick Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692517406
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Charles M. Russell written by Rick Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2016-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Saving Lucky

Author : Amon G. Carter, 3rd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692817162
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Saving Lucky written by Amon G. Carter, 3rd and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Signed by the Author - Signature Series Collectible - Based on the real story of a bird named Lucky.

Amon

Author : Jerry Flemmons
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896725645
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Amon written by Jerry Flemmons and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of the mid-twentieth-century, Amon G. Carter Sr. was the man who invented the cowboy at least the larger-than-life Texas version that captured the imagination of the public, presidents, movie stars, and moguls. Carter donned his cowboy persona to build Fort Worth, from the Star-Telegram up, and much of the rest of West Texas. Jerry Flemmons brings to life the mythic huckster and newspaper giant who ushered the likes of Gary Cooper, Charles Lindbergh, Will Rogers, and Ike through the back door of his Fort Worth mansion and feted them at his Shady Oak Farm with rodeos and parties.

The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion

Author : Mark Dion
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300246196
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion written by Mark Dion and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dazzling expeditionary volume, Mark Dion investigates the layered history of the Lone Star State.

Acting Out

Author : John Rohrbach
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520306686
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Acting Out written by John Rohrbach and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cabinet cards were America’s main format for photographic portraiture throughout the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Standardized at 6½ x 4¼ inches, they were just large enough to reveal extensive detail, leading to the incorporation of elaborate poses, backdrops, and props. Inexpensive and sold by the dozen, they transformed getting one’s portrait made from a formal event taken up once or twice in a lifetime into a commonplace practice shared with friends. The cards reinforced middle-class Americans’ sense of family. They allowed people to show off their material achievements and comforts, and the best cards projected an informal immediacy that encouraged viewers to feel emotionally connected with those portrayed. The experience even led sitters to act out before the camera. By making photographs an easygoing fact of life, the cards forecast the snapshot and today’s ubiquitous photo sharing. Organized by senior curator John Rohrbach, Acting Out is the first ever in-depth examination of the cabinet card phenomena. Full-color plates include over 100 cards at full size, providing a highly entertaining collection of these early versions of the selfie and ultimately demonstrating how cabinet cards made photography modern. Published in association with the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Tentative exhibition dates (postponed due to COVID-19): Amon Carter Museum of American Art: August 2020 Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA): 2021

Texas Made Modern

Author : Shirley Reece-Hughes
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623498899
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Texas Made Modern written by Shirley Reece-Hughes and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everett Spruce came to Texas from his Arkansas home in 1925 to study at the Dallas Art Institute. Over the next seven decades, he became one of the most important painters and teachers in the region. One of the “Dallas Nine,” a group of influential Texas Regionalists that included Jerry Bywaters, Otis Dozier, William Lester, and others, Spruce was among the artists who lobbied the Texas Centennial Commission for a greater role in the Centennial Exposition of 1936. These efforts, though unsuccessful, nevertheless led to greater recognition and influence for Texas art and artists. Spruce was assistant director and taught art at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts until 1940 when he joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin. He painted and taught at the university for the next 38 years, guiding and shaping the next generation of Texas artists, including Roger Winter, William Hoey, and others. Spruce died in 2002 at the age of 94. Texas Made Modern: The Art of Everett Spruce traces Spruce’s artistic evolution from his early experimental work of the 1920s through the mysterious, surrealist-imbued landscapes of the 1930s. The work addresses his boldly expressionistic imagery of the 1940s and his abstract expressionist–inspired paintings of the mid-twentieth century. Departing from previous accounts of Spruce, which label him a prototypical regionalist, this study reveals the nuanced meanings behind the artist’s shifting approaches to Texas subject matter and resituates his artwork within the broader narrative of American art.

Color

Author : Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292753013
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Color written by Amon Carter Museum of American Art and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the world in color was one of photography’s greatest aspirations from the very beginnings of the medium. When color photography became a reality with the introduction of the Autochrome in 1907, prominent photographers such as Alfred Stieglitz were overjoyed. But they quickly came to reject color photography as too aligned with human sight. It took decades for artists to come to understand the creative potential of color, and only in 1976, when John Szarkowski showed William Eggleston’s photographs at the Museum of Modern Art, did the art world embrace color. By accepting color’s flexibility and emotional transcendence, Szarkowski and Eggleston transformed photography, giving the medium equal artistic stature with painting, but also initiating its demise as an independent art. The catalogue of a major exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, which holds one of the premier collections of American photography, Color tells, for the first time, the fascinating story of color’s integration into American fine art photography and how its acceptance revolutionized the practice of art. Tracing the development of color photography from the first color photograph in 1851 to digital photography, John Rohrbach describes photographers’ initial rejection of color, their decades-long debates over what color brings to photography, and how their gradual acceptance of color released photography from its status as a second-tier art form. He shows how this absorption of color instigated wide acceptance of a fundamentally new definition of photography, one that blends photography’s documentary foundations with the creative flexibility of painting. Sylvie Pénichon offers a succinct survey of the technological advances that made color in photography a reality and have since marked its multifaceted development. These texts, illuminated by seventy-five full-page plates and more than eighty illustrations, make this book a groundbreaking contribution to photographic studies.

Bad Dad

Author : Dave Lieber
Publisher : Dave Lieber
ISBN 13 : 0983614903
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Bad Dad written by Dave Lieber and published by Dave Lieber. This book was released on 2011-05-08 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A newspaper columnist investigates the shenanigans of a small-town police department then pays a price. At a local restaurant one day, he orders his misbehaving son, 11, to walk home. When the father returns, police are waiting. The dad is arrested and charged with two felonies. The world weighs in about whether he's a bad dad. A true-story thriller.

50 Charles M. Russell Paintings of the Old American West from the Amon Carter Museum

Author : Charles Marion Russell
Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 50 Charles M. Russell Paintings of the Old American West from the Amon Carter Museum written by Charles Marion Russell and published by Crown Publishing Group (NY). This book was released on 1978 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Shores of a Dream

Author : Jane Myers
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Shores of a Dream written by Jane Myers and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shores of a Dream: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's Early Works in America considers the paintings and drawings that Kuniyoshi produced before his first trip to Europe in 1925. As he began to develop his painting style, the young artist also executed a series of pen-and-ink drawings that were finished works of art in themselves. Kuniyoshi's sensuous still lifes and fanciful landscapes fused the principles of American modernism with artistic elements from folk art and from his Japanese heritage. His works are by turns humorous, fantastic, and serenely elegant, and always worthy of close examination. The Shores of a Dream reveals the range of Kuniyoshi's early work, from broadly painted canvases that echo American folk painting to pen-and-ink works reminiscent of Japanese sumi ink drawing or touched with delicate washes of color. Comparative examples from traditional Japanese art and Kuniyoshi's contemporaries, including Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keefe, and Marsden Hartley, suggest how he fused both traditional and modernist artistic principles into a style uniquely his own.

Wild Spaces, Open Seasons

Author : Margaret C. Adler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806154633
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book Wild Spaces, Open Seasons written by Margaret C. Adler and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Spaces, Open Seasons traces the theme of hunting and fishing in American art from the early nineteenth century through World War II. Describing a remarkable group of American paintings and sculpture, the contributors reveal the pervasiveness of the subjects and the fascinating contexts from which they emerged. In one important example after another, the authors demonstrate that representations of hunting and fishing did more than illustrate subsistence activities or diverting pastimes. The portrayal of American hunters and fishers also spoke to American ambitions and priorities. In his introduction, noted outdoorsman and author Stephen J. Bodio surveys the book's major artists, who range from society painters to naturalists and modernists. Margaret C. Adler then explores how hunting and fishing imagery in American art reflects traditional myths, some rooted in classicism, others in the American appetite for tall tales. Kory W. Rogers, in his discussion of works that valorize the dangers hunters faced pursuing their prey, shows how American artists constructed new rituals at a time when the United States was rapidly transforming from a frontier society into a modern urban nation. Shirley Reece-Hughes looks at depictions of families, pairs, and parties of hunters and fishers and how social bonding reinvigorated American society at a time of social, political, and cultural change. Finally, Adam M. Thomas considers themes of exploration and hunting as integral to conveying the individualism that was a staple of westward expansion. In their depictions of the hunt or the catch, American artists connected a dynamic and developing nation to its past and its future. Through the examination of major works of art, Wild Spaces, Open Seasons brings to light an often-overlooked theme in American painting and sculpture.

Procession

Author : David Acton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520288009
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Procession written by David Acton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated catalogue accompanies the first major museum retrospective of the painter Norman Lewis (1909Ð1979). Lewis was the sole African American artist of his generation who became committed to issues of abstraction at the start of his career and continued to explore them over its entire trajectory. His art derived inspiration from music (jazz and classical) and nature (seasonal change, plant forms, the sea). Also central to his work were the dramatic confrontations of the civil rights movement, in which he was an active participant among the New York art scene. Bridging the Harlem Renaissance, Abstract Expressionism, and beyond, Lewis is a crucial figure in American abstraction whose reinsertion into the discourse further opens the field for recognition of the contributions of artists of color. Bringing much-needed attention to LewisÕs output and significance in the history of American art, Procession is a milestone in Lewis scholarship and a vital resource for future study of the artist and abstraction in his period. Published in association with Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Exhibition dates: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia: November 13, 2015ÐApril 3, 2016 Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth: June 4ÐAugust 21, 2016 Chicago Cultural Center: September 17, 2016ÐJanuary 8, 2017 Ê

Frederic Remington

Author : Peter H. Hassrick
Publisher : New American Library
ISBN 13 : 9780810920545
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Frederic Remington written by Peter H. Hassrick and published by New American Library. This book was released on 1975 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life and career of the American artist and illustrator famous for his scenes of nineteenth-century Western life. -- Amazon.com.

An-My Lê on Contested Terrain (Signed Edition)

Author : DAN. LEERS
Publisher : Aperture Direct
ISBN 13 : 9781683952206
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book An-My Lê on Contested Terrain (Signed Edition) written by DAN. LEERS and published by Aperture Direct. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An-My Lê On Contested Terrain is the first comprehensive survey of the Vietnamese American artist, published on the occasion of a major exhibition organized by Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Drawing, in part, from her own experiences of the Vietnam War, Lê has created a body of work committed to expanding and complicating our understanding of the activities and motivations behind conflict and war. Throughout her thirty-year career, Lê has photographed noncombatant roles of active-duty service members, often on the sites of former battlefields, including those reserved for training or the reenactment of war, and those created as film sets. This publication includes selections from her well-known series Viêt Nam, Small Wars, 29 Palms, and Events Ashore, in addition to never-before-seen images, including recent photographs from the US-Mexico border, formative early work, and lesser-known projects. Essays by the organizing curator Dan Leers and curator Lisa J. Sutcliffe, as well as a dialogue between Lê and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen, address the ways in which Lê's quiet, nuanced work complicates the landscapes of conflict that have long informed American identity. Copublished by Aperture and Carnegie Museum of Art