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Thaddeus Mosley

Author : David Lewis
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 9780822971832
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book Thaddeus Mosley written by David Lewis and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1997 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thaddeus “Thad” Mosley is a self-taught African American sculptor. Earning a living throughout his adult life as a postal worker in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, so that he could support his family by day and work as a sculptor by night, he has evolved an individual and powerful African American voice. He worked alone, patiently developing a sculptural language absolutely his own, yet traceable to his primary sources of inspiration, the vitality of African art and American jazz on the one hand, and on the other, two twentieth-century artists, the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi and the Asian American sculptor Isamu Noguchi. From the beginning Thad Mosley has been a carver. His materials have always been those “at hand,” logs from the trees of his native Western Pennsylvania, stones from the sites of demolished buildings in Pittsburgh, and metals from local scrapyards. Finding within each log or block of stone an essential vitality, his carvings invariably bear a syncopation of chisel marks evoking the rhythms and surging freedoms of jazz. Mosley’s perseverence and his pride in who he is offer an inspiring example of the unquenchable spirit of a true artists. This short book introduces the life and work of this remarkable man. Davis Lewis, architect, writer, and painter, has been a friend of the artist for twenty-five years. His narrative is distilled from hours of taped interviews with Thad Mosley, as well as from a deep understanding of his art and influences. Lonnie Graham is a nationally known African-American photographer.

Thaddeus Mosley

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Publisher : Karma, New York
ISBN 13 : 9781949172379
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book Thaddeus Mosley written by and published by Karma, New York. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thaddeus Mosley's monumental freestanding sculptures are crafted with the felled trees of Pittsburgh's urban canopy, via the city's Forestry Division; wood from local sawmills; and reclaimed building materials. With influences ranging from Isamu Noguchi to Constantin Brâncuşi and the Bamum, Dogon, Baoulé, Senufo, Dan, and Mossi works of his personal collection--Mosley's sculptures mark an inflection point in the history of American abstraction."--Publisher's website.

Thaddeus Mosley

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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)

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Bullet for a Stranger

Author : William W. Johnstone
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
ISBN 13 : 0786044373
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Bullet for a Stranger written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JOHNSTONE COUNTRY—WATCH YOUR BACK. Red Ryan is one of the fastest guns in the West. But this time, he’s in for the longest, hardest ride of his life. Where danger lurks around every turn—and all roads lead to hell . . . 700 MILES OF MAYHEM Gold. Silver. Cold hard cash. Stagecoach guard Red Ryan and his driver Buttons Muldoon have ridden shotgun on some pretty valuable cargo in their day. But they’re about to learn—the hard way—that the most dangerous cargo of all is human. They’ve been hired to escort a cowardly traitor facing an army court martial in New Orleans. Every hired killer in Texas wants him dead, including gun-handy Hannah Huckabee, a woman with a mysterious past and an agenda of her own. But she’s just one of the dangers they’ll face along the way. There are cutthroat gangs bent on slaughtering anything on two legs. And 700 miles of the deadliest terrain Red Ryan has ever had to shoot his way out of . . . Live Free. Read Hard.

Engaging Art

Author : Roslyn Bernstein
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527550699
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Engaging Art written by Roslyn Bernstein and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the tangled texture of the art world, a curious and mysterious space. In 60 essays, drawn from around the globe, it reveals new dimensions about how artists make their art, resist censorship and retain an independent, creative spirit. The essays ask and answer several crucial questions: How do artists in Europe, the United States, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin and South America find space to live and work? How do artists follow their talent to make and exhibit original art in a politicized world where artistic freedom is often limited? How do smaller artistic venues survive the economic pressures and competition in the art market? Focusing on under-the-radar subjects, the reports, interviews, and essays illuminate the pain and pleasures of artistic production and the challenges faced by artists, curators, and gallerists.

A Companion to Curation

Author : Brad Buckley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119206855
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Curation written by Brad Buckley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive reference text on curation both inside and outside the museum A Companion to Curation is the first collection of its kind, assembling the knowledge and experience of prominent curators, artists, art historians, scholars, and theorists in one comprehensive volume. Part of the Blackwell Companion series, this much-needed book provides up-to-date information and valuable insights on the field of curatorial studies and curation in the visual arts. Accessible and engaging chapters cover diverse, contemporary methods of curation, its origin and history, current and emerging approaches within the profession, and more. This timely publication fills a significant gap in literature on the role of the curator, the art and science of curating, and the historical arc of the field from the 17th century to the present. The Companion explores topics such as global developments in contemporary indigenous art, Asian and Chinese art since the 1980s, feminist and queer feminist curatorial practices, and new curatorial strategies beyond the museum. This unique volume: Offers readers a wide range of perspectives on curating in both theory and practice Includes coverage of curation outside of the Eurocentric and Anglosphere art worlds Presents clear and comprehensible information valuable for specialists and novices alike Discusses the movements, models, people and politics of curating Provides guidance on curating in a globalized world Broad in scope and detailed in content, A Companion to Curation is an essential text for professionals engaged in varied forms of curation, teachers and students of museum studies, and readers interested in the workings of the art world, museums, benefactors, and curators.

Epistrophies

Author : Brent Hayes Edwards
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674979028
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Epistrophies written by Brent Hayes Edwards and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1941 Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke copyrighted “Epistrophy,” one of the best-known compositions of the bebop era. The song’s title refers to a literary device—the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses—that is echoed in the construction of the melody. Written two decades later, Amiri Baraka’s poem “Epistrophe” alludes slyly to Monk’s tune. Whether it is composers finding formal inspiration in verse or a poet invoking the sound of music, hearing across media is the source of innovation in black art. Epistrophies explores this fertile interface through case studies in jazz literature—both writings informed by music and the surprisingly large body of writing by jazz musicians themselves. From James Weldon Johnson’s vernacular transcriptions to Sun Ra’s liner note poems, from Henry Threadgill’s arresting song titles to Nathaniel Mackey’s “Song of the Andoumboulou,” there is an unending back-and-forth between music that hovers at the edge of language and writing that strives for the propulsive energy and melodic contours of music. At times this results in art that gravitates into multiple media. In Duke Ellington’s “social significance” suites, or in the striking parallels between Louis Armstrong’s inventiveness as a singer and trumpeter on the one hand and his idiosyncratic creativity as a letter writer and collagist on the other, one encounters an aesthetic that takes up both literature and music as components of a unique—and uniquely African American—sphere of art-making and performance.

Jazz in the Hill

Author : Colter Harper
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496849876
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Jazz in the Hill written by Colter Harper and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1920s through the 1960s, Pittsburgh’s Hill District was the heart of the city’s Black cultural life and home to a vibrant jazz scene. In Jazz in the Hill: Nightlife and Narratives of a Pittsburgh Neighborhood, Colter Harper looks at how jazz shaped the neighborhood and created a way of life. Beyond backdrops for remarkable careers, jazz clubs sparked the development of a self-determined African American community. In delving into the history of entrepreneurialism, placemaking, labor organizing, and critical listening in the Hill District, Harper forges connections to larger political contexts, processes of urban development, and civil rights struggles. Harper adopts a broad approach in thinking about jazz clubs, foregrounding the network of patrons, business owners, and musicians who were actively invested in community building. Jazz in the Hill provides a valuable case study detailing the intersections of music, political and cultural history, public policy, labor, and law. The book addresses distinctive eras and issues of twentieth century American urban history, including notions of “vice” during the Prohibition Era (1920–1934); “blight” during the mid-twentieth century boom in urban redevelopment (1946–1973); and workplace integration during the civil rights era (1954–1968). Throughout, Harper demonstrates how the clubs, as a nexus of music, politics, economy, labor, and social relations, supported the livelihood of residents and artists while developing cultures of listening and learning. Though the neighborhood has undergone an extensive socioeconomic transformation that has muted its nightlife, this musical legacy continues to guide current development visions for the Hill on the cusp of its remaking.

A Modern Influence

Author : Baltimore Museum of Art
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578888187
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book A Modern Influence written by Baltimore Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This exhibition explores the 43-year friendship between artist Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and Baltimore collector Etta Cone (1870-1949). More than 160 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and illustrated books provide new insights into the formation of the renowned Cone Collection, one of the greatest collections of modern art in the United States. Etta, with her older sister Claribel (1864-1929), acquired more than 700 works by Matisse between 1906 and 1949 and bequeathed the majority of them to the BMA as part of a gift of 3,000 objects. Etta's dedication and curiosity ultimately lent the Cone collection its characteristic depth and breadth. After accepting Etta's invitation to visit her in Baltimore in 1930, Matisse realized he could have a major U.S. presence, and began creating and offering Etta specific works of art with the Cone collection in mind." Among these works are masterpieces such as The Yellow Dress (1929-31) and Large Reclining Nude (1935), rarely shown drawings, and the preliminary studies for his first illustrated book, Poems by Stéphane Mallarmé (1932). The works in the exhibition are generally arranged by acquisition date, demonstrating Cone's increasingly discerning eye for Matisse's work throughout their long partnership. A fully illustrated catalog accompanying the exhibition contains new scholarship on the formal, technical, and social aspects of the decades-long working partnership between artist and patron.

The Sculpture World of Jerry Harris

Author : Suzanne Fredericq
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0982570414
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book The Sculpture World of Jerry Harris written by Suzanne Fredericq and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication includes images of forty-seven sculptures created by sculptor Jerry Harris between the 1980's and 2009. The sculptures are made of carved and constructed wood, mixed media, iron, found objects, laminated clay (Bondo), or bronze. These artworks can also be viewed at http: //www.harrisculptor.com. The site http: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Harris provides links to other Harris' sites as wel

Encyclopedia of African American Artists

Author : dele jegede
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313080607
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of African American Artists written by dele jegede and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-03-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American heritage is rich with stories of family, community, faith, love, adaptation and adjustment, grief, and suffering, all captured in a variety of media by artists intimately familiar with them. From traditional media of painting and artists such as Horace Pippin and Faith Ringgold, to photography of Gordon Parks, and new media of Sam Gilliam and Martin Puryear (installation art), the African American experience is reflected across generations and works. Eight pages of color plates and black and white images throughout the book introduce both favorite and new artists to students and adult readers alike. African American heritage is rich with stories of family, community, faith, love, adaptation and adjustment, grief, and suffering, all captured in a variety of media by artists intimately familiar with them. From traditional media of painting and artists such as Horace Pippin and Faith Ringgold, to photography of Gordon Parks, and new media of Sam Gilliam and Martin Puryear (installation art), the African American experience is reflected across generations and works. Eight pages of color plates and black and white images throughout the book introduce both favorite and new artists to students and adult readers alike. A sampling of the artists included: Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Achamyele Debela, and Melvin Edwards.

The Augmented Museum: Essays on Opportunities and Uses of Augmented Reality in Museums

Author : Elizabeth Kane
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387535099
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book The Augmented Museum: Essays on Opportunities and Uses of Augmented Reality in Museums written by Elizabeth Kane and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augmented reality (AR) can be an artistic choice or an experience augmentation for museum patrons. The Knight Foundation analyzed how museums are adapting to digital demands noting it is "vast" and "complicated." The following collection from contributors to the Arts Management and Technology Laboratory offers perspectives on how museums are adapting to AR and similar digital disruptions.

Poems About Sculpture

Author : Murray Dewart
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 1101907754
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Poems About Sculpture written by Murray Dewart and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems About Sculpture is a unique anthology of poems from around the world and across the ages about our most enduring art form. Sculpture has the longest memory of the arts: from the Paleolithic era, we find stone carvings and clay figures embedded with human longing. And poets have long been fascinated by the idea of eternity embodied by the monumental temples and fragmented statues of ancient civilizations. From Keats’s Grecian urn and Shelley’s “Ozymandias” to contemporary verse about Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Janet Echelman’s wind-borne hovering nets, the pieces in this collection convert the physical materials of the plastic arts—clay, wood, glass, marble, granite, bronze, and more—into lapidary lines of poetry. Whether the sculptures celebrated here commemorate love or war, objects or apparitions, forms human or divine, they have called forth evocative responses from a wide range of poets, including Homer, Ovid, Shakespeare, Baudelaire, Rilke, Dickinson, Yeats, Auden, and Plath. A compendium of dazzling examples of one art form reflecting on another, Poems About Sculpture is a treat for art lovers of all kinds.

Governor's Awards for the Arts

Author : Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governor's Awards for the Arts written by Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thaddeus Mosley

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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Thaddeus Mosley written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thaddeus Mosley is a sculptor who works mainly in wood. Mosley was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1926, and has lived in Pittsburgh since the mid-1940s. He attended the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned a BA in English and journalism. Mosley was a sports reporter and photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier in the 1950s, and freelanced for publications such as Ebony, Sepia, and Jet. He also edited the book Compositions in Black and White. Mosley was a member of several Pittsburgh-based artists' groups, including Associated Artists, Society of Sculptors, and The Watt Lane Art Club (later Group One). He also taught at Touchstone Center for Crafts for many years. Mosley is the recipient of several awards and honors, including the 2022 Isamu Noguchi Award. In this interview, Mosley discusses his family and childhood in Pennsylvania, including life in a mining town and education; service in the United States Navy during World War II, including discrimination and duty stations; education at the University of Pittsburgh; work history, including developing photographs, writing a sports column for the Pittsburgh Courier, and longtime work with the United States Post Office; interest in jazz music, including attending shows by John Coltrane and Duke Ellington; observations of and involvement in the civil rights movement in Pittsburgh; self-guided approach to sculpting; artistic influences, including Constantin Brâncuşi, Isamu Noguchi, and Jay Leff's African tribal art collection; community of artists in Pittsburgh, including Selma Burke, Sam Gilliam, Charles "Dingbat" Smith, and Charles Wilson; participation in artists' groups in Pittsburgh; Manchester Craftsmen's Guild and Touchstone Center for Crafts; marriages and children; creative process, including sound, materials, scale, and inspiration; shows, including at The Three Rivers Arts Festival, Carnegie Museum of Art, and The Mattress Factory; sculptures, including Miss Birmingham, Phoenix, Mountaintop, and Fanfare for Fannie--for Fannie Lou Hamer; commissions and public art; business of art and racism in the art world; collectors and gallery representation; honors and awards; and reflections on scale and texture in sculptures.

Where Willy Went

Author : Nicholas Allan
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375983805
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Where Willy Went written by Nicholas Allan and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before have the facts of life been presented in such an accessible—or novel—way. Our hero is Willy, a little sperm who lives inside Mr. Browne with 300 million friends. Every day Willy practices for the Great Swimming Race. And when the day arrives, he swims faster than his 300 million friends to win the prize—a marvelous egg. Then something wonderful happens, and eventually Mr. and Mrs. Browne have a baby girl who has the same winning smile as Willy and who grows up to be a great swimmer. Hilariously funny, warm, and endearing, this is a picture book that appeals on different levels to both children and grown-ups. “Fresh, original, and imaginative. . . . Allan’s achievement is in couching fascinating facts within the construct of a gentle, direct narrative. A little knowledge is a wonderful thing, and as the rest of the facts of life fall into place, Allan’s readers will look back on this book with a mixture of fondness and wry amusement.” —The Guardian (UK)

Libyan Sugar

Author : Michael Christopher Brown
Publisher : Twin Palms Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781936611096
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Libyan Sugar written by Michael Christopher Brown and published by Twin Palms Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centered around the 2011 Libyan Revolution, Libyan Sugar is a road trip through a war zone, detailed through photographs, journal entries, and written communication with family and colleagues. A record of Michael Christopher Brown's life both inside and outside Libya during that year, the work is about a young man going to war for the first time and his experience of that age-old desire to get as close as possible to a conflict in order to discover something about war and something about himself, perhaps a certain definition of life and death.