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Author : Astrid Böger
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823346630
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (466 download)
Download or read book People's Lives, Public Images written by Astrid Böger and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maren Stange
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521424295
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (242 download)
Download or read book Symbols of Ideal Life written by Maren Stange and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The documentary style that dominates American photography had its origins in the social reform publicity campaigns of the turn of the century. This study traces the history of this genre and its main participants, including Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, and Russell Lee.
Author : m stange
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (118 download)
Download or read book Symbols of Ideal Life written by m stange and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cheryl Krasnick Warsh
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 9780889209121
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Children’s Health Issues in Historical Perspective written by Cheryl Krasnick Warsh and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From sentimental stories about polio to the latest cherub in hospital commercials, sick children tug at the public’s heartstrings. However sick children have not always had adequate medical care or protection. The essays in Children’s Issues in Historical Perspective investigate the identification, prevention, and treatment of childhood diseases from the 1800s onwards, in areas ranging from French-colonial Vietnam to nineteenth-century northern British Columbia, from New Zealand fresh air camps to American health fairs. Themes include: the role of government and/or the private sector in initiating and underwriting child public health programs; the growth of the profession of pediatrics and its views on “proper” mothering techniques; the role of nationalism, as well as ethnic and racial dimensions in child-saving movements; normative behaviour, social control, and the treatment of “deviant” children and adolescents; poverty, wealth, and child health measures; and the development of the modern children’s hospital. This liberally illustrated collection reflects the growing academic interest in all aspects of childhood, especially child health, and originates from health care professionals and scholars across the disciplines. An introduction by the editors places the historical themes in context and offers an overview of the contemporary study of children’s health.
Author : Richard Megraw
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578064175
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (641 download)
Download or read book Confronting Modernity written by Richard Megraw and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confronting Modernity: Art and Society in Louisiana examines how the conflicts and benefits of modernity's nationalizing influences were reflected and resisted by the state's artists in the first half of the twentieth century. In Louisiana, such change not only produced the turbulent politics of the Huey Long era but also provoked debate over new ideas on art and social roles for artists. By using two of Louisiana's most prominent cultural figures of the era as lenses, Megraw reveals the state's complex relationship with modernity. Artist Ellsworth Woodward and writer Lyle Saxon battled to retain artistic control over what they considered the exceptional character of Louisiana. Woodward defended localized assumptions through art in the world-renowned pottery program he established in 1892 and directed for more than forty years at Sophie Newcomb College. Saxon, on the other hand, fought against modernity's encroachment from within, serving as director of the Federal Writers Project in Louisiana. He used his position to promote literature and culture that preserved local place and historic structure from the transformations wrought by industrialism, consumerism, and the mass media. Confronting Modernity vividly explores how Louisiana's struggles with America's rush to modernize mirrored battles for autonomy happening between artists and governments across the country. Richard Megraw is associate professor of American studies at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. His work has been published in Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies.
Author : Laura Hapke
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813542561
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Sweatshop written by Laura Hapke and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-29 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that the sweatshop is as American as apple pie, Laura Hapke surveys over a century and a half of the language, verbal and pictorial, in which the sweatshop has been imagined and its stories told. Not seeking a formal definition of the sort that policymakers are concerned with, nor intending to provide a strict historical chronology, this unique book shows, rather, how the “real” sweatshop has become intertwined with the “invented” sweatshop of our national imagination, and how this mixture of rhetoric and myth has endowed American sweatshops with rich and complex cultural meaning. Hapke uncovers a wide variety of tales and images that writers, artists, social scientists, reformers, and workers themselves have told about “the shop.” Adding an important perspective to historical and economic approaches, Sweatshop draws on sources from antebellum journalism, Progressive era surveys, modern movies, and anti-sweatshop websites. Illustrated chapters detail how the shop has been a facilitator of assimilation, a promoter of upward mobility, the epitome of exploitation, a site of ethnic memory, a venue for political protest, and an expression of twentieth-century managerial narratives. An important contribution to the real and imagined history of garment industry exploitation, this book provides a valuable new context for understanding contemporary sweatshops that now represent the worst expression of an unregulated global economy.
Author : Maurine Weiner Greenwald
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 9780822971757
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (717 download)
Download or read book Pittsburgh Surveyed written by Maurine Weiner Greenwald and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1909-1914 the Pittsburgh Survey brought together statisticans, social workers, engineers, lawyers, physicians, economists, and city planners to study the effects of industrialization on the city of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Surveyed examines the accuracy and the impact of the influential Pittsburgh Survey, emphasizing its role in the social reform movement of the early twentieth century.
Author : Jacob A. Riis
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312574010
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (125 download)
Download or read book How the Other Half Lives written by Jacob A. Riis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob Riis's famed 1890 photo-text addressed the problems of tenement housing, immigration, and urban life and work at the beginning of the Progressive era. David Leviatin edited this complete edition of How the Other Half Lives to be as faithful to Riis's original text and photography as possible. Uncropped prints of Riis's original photographs replace the faded halftones and drawings from photographs that were included in the 1890 edition. Related documents added to the second edition include a stenographic report of one of Riis's lantern-slide lectures that demonstrates Riis's melodramatic techniques and the reaction of his audience, and five drawings that reveal the subtle but important ways Riis's photographs were edited when they were reinterpreted as illustrations in the 1890 edition. The book's provocative introduction now addresses Riis's ethnic and racial stereotyping and includes a map of New York's Lower East Side in the 1890s. A new list of illustrations and expanded chronology, questions for consideration, and selected bibliography provide additional support.
Author : Joseph B. Entin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469606615
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Sensational Modernism written by Joseph B. Entin and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the conventional wisdom that the 1930s were dominated by literary and photographic realism, Sensational Modernism uncovers a rich vein of experimental work by politically progressive artists. Examining images by photographers such as Weegee and Aaron Siskind and fiction by writers such as William Carlos Williams, Richard Wright, Tillie Olsen, and Pietro di Donato, Joseph Entin argues that these artists drew attention to the country's most vulnerable residents by using what he calls an "aesthetic of astonishment," focused on startling, graphic images of pain, injury, and prejudice. Traditional portrayals of the poor depicted stoic, passive figures of sentimental suffering or degraded but potentially threatening figures in need of supervision. Sensational modernists sought to shock middle-class audiences into new ways of seeing the nation's impoverished and outcast populations. The striking images these artists created, often taking the form of contorted or disfigured bodies drawn from the realm of the tabloids, pulp magazines, and cinema, represented a bold, experimental form of social aesthetics. Entin argues that these artists created a willfully unorthodox brand of vernacular modernism in which formal avant-garde innovations were used to delineate the conditions, contradictions, and pressures of life on the nation's fringes.
Author : Marianne Doezema
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300050431
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (54 download)
Download or read book George Bellows and Urban America written by Marianne Doezema and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Bellows's spirited and virile paintings of New York in the early decades of the twentieth century celebrated the city's bigness and bolness. Although these works clearly challenged the conservative practices of the National Academy and linked Bellows with the anti-academic art of Robert Henri and the Eight, they were highly popular, even with arch-conservatives. In this book Marianne Doezema explores why it was that Bellows's paintings--despite being considered coarse in technique and subject matter--were acclaimed by critics and patrons, by conservatives, progressives, and radicals alike. Doezema focuses on three of Bellows's principal urban themes: the excavation for Pennsylvania Station, prizefights, and tenement life on the Lower East Side. Drawing on journals and periodicals of the period, she discusses how the prominent, often newsworthy motifs painted by Bellows evoked particular associations and meanings for his contemporaries. Arguing that the implicit message of these paintings was distinctly unrevolutionary, she shows that the excavation paintings celebrated industrialization and urbanization, the boxing pictures presented the sport as brutal and its fans as bloodthirsty, and the depictions of the Lower East Side conformed to a moralistic, middle-class view of poverty. In many of Bellows's subject pictures of this era, says Doezema, the artist approached issues of changing moral and social values in a way that not only seemed congenial to many members of his audience but also verified their attitudes and preconceptions about urban life in America.
Author : Herman Gaylord Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ideal Metrology in Nature, Art, Religion and History written by Herman Gaylord Wood and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Oriental Religions and Their Religion to Universal Religion written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Oriental Religions and Their Relation to Universal Religion written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melissa A. McEuen
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813128450
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Seeing America written by Melissa A. McEuen and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol Squiers
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520247337
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Body at Risk written by Carol Squiers and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Body at Risk: Photography of Disorder, Illness, and Healing is the first book to explore the ways that photojournalists and social documentarians have conceptualized the human subject as a site of both good and ill health. The volume looks at photographs depicting child laborers; Depression-era health programs; general medical care in the southern United States at mid-century; people with HIV, AIDS, and polio, along with their caretakers and the health workers who advocate for them; environmental pollution; physical and psychological injuries received during warfare; domestic violence; and emergency care in the modern urban hospital. It brings together ten significant bodies of photographs made over the past one hundred years to show how human health topics have been represented for the general public and how the emphasis on health has shifted; how photography has been used to present and promote certain points of view about health and the social circumstances that affect it, both positively and negatively; and how photography has helped shape public knowledge of and opinion about health care and some of the events and circumstances that engender it.
Author : Katrina Irving
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252025341
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (253 download)
Download or read book Immigrant Mothers written by Katrina Irving and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Katrina Irving's close reading of novels by Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, Harold Frederic, and Frank Norris discloses the portrayal of immigrant women, especially immigrant mothers, as a reflection of larger cultural anxieties. In the wake of economic retooling and Fordist mechanization, Irving maintains, immigrants became feminized others against which native Anglo-American virility could be aggrandized."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Nirbhai Singh
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Distri
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Philosophy of Sikhism written by Nirbhai Singh and published by Atlantic Publishers & Distri. This book was released on 1990 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
