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Author : Cynthia J. Mills
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Adams Memorial and American Funerary Sculpture, 1891-1927 written by Cynthia J. Mills and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Natalie Dykstra
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0618873856
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (188 download)
Download or read book Clover Adams written by Natalie Dykstra and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory life of Clover Adams, casting a lens on her iconic marriage to historian Henry Adams and her fatal embrace of photography in her last months.
Author : John Adams
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Adams Memorial; Containing a Sketch of John Adams, the Elder, Together with the Life, Character ... Death and Funeral Obsequies of ... John Quincy Adams, Etc written by John Adams and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cynthia Mills
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1935623389
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Beyond Grief written by Cynthia Mills and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Grief explores high-style funerary sculptures and their functions during the turn of the twentieth century. Many scholars have overlooked these monuments, viewing them as mere oddities, a part of an individual artist's oeuvre, a detail of a patron's biography, or local civic cemetery history. This volume considers them in terms of their wider context and shifting use as objects of consolation, power, and multisensory mystery and wonder. Art historian Cynthia Mills traces the stories of four families who memorialized their losses through sculpture. Henry Brooks Adams commissioned perhaps the most famous American cemetery monument of all, the Adams Memorial in Washington, D.C. The bronze figure was designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, who became the nation’s foremost sculptor. Another innovative bronze monument featured the Milmore brothers, who had worked together as sculptors in the Boston area. Artist Frank Duveneck composed a recumbent portrait of his wife following her early death in Paris; in Rome, the aging William Wetmore Story made an angel of grief his last work as a symbol of his sheer desolation after his wife’s death. Through these incredible monuments Mills explores questions like: Why did new forms--many of them now produced in bronze rather than stone and placed in architectural settings--arise just at this time, and how did they mesh or clash with the sensibilities of their era? Why was there a gap between the intention of these elite patrons and artists, whose lives were often intertwined in a closed circle, and the way some public audiences received them through the filter of the mass media? Beyond Grief traces the monuments' creation, influence, and reception in the hope that they will help us to understand the larger story: how survivors used cemetery memorials as a vehicle to mourn and remember, and how their meaning changed over time.
Author : Jennifer Dasal
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143134590
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book ArtCurious written by Jennifer Dasal and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wildly entertaining and surprisingly educational dive into art history as you've never seen it before, from the host of the beloved ArtCurious podcast We're all familiar with the works of Claude Monet, thanks in no small part to the ubiquitous reproductions of his water lilies on umbrellas, handbags, scarves, and dorm-room posters. But did you also know that Monet and his cohort were trailblazing rebels whose works were originally deemed unbelievably ugly and vulgar? And while you probably know the tale of Vincent van Gogh's suicide, you may not be aware that there's pretty compelling evidence that the artist didn't die by his own hand but was accidentally killed--or even murdered. Or how about the fact that one of Andy Warhol's most enduring legacies involves Caroline Kennedy's moldy birthday cake and a collection of toenail clippings? ArtCurious is a colorful look at the world of art history, revealing some of the strangest, funniest, and most fascinating stories behind the world's great artists and masterpieces. Through these and other incredible, weird, and wonderful tales, ArtCurious presents an engaging look at why art history is, and continues to be, a riveting and relevant world to explore.
Author : Lincoln Kirstein
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Memorial to a Marriage written by Lincoln Kirstein and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. This book was released on 1989 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (595 download)
Download or read book The Adams Memorial written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Providing for an Extension of the Legislative Authority of the Adams Memorial Foundation to Establish a Commemorative Work in Honor of Former President John Adams and His Legacy, and for Other Purposes written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States
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Total Pages : 3 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book An Act to Authorize the Adams Memorial Foundation to Establish a Commemorative Work on Federal Land in the District of Columbia and Its Environs to Honor Former President John Adams and His Legacy written by United States and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
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Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Adams Memorial Foundation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Adams Memorial written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Francis Adams
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Charles Francis Adams written by Charles Francis Adams and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ormond Seavey
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813944651
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Henry Adams in Washington written by Ormond Seavey and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A descendent of two U.S. presidents and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Henry Adams enjoyed a very particular place in American life, not least due to his ancestry. Yet despite his prolific writing in the years between 1877 and 1891, when he lived in Washington, D.C., Adams has somehow slipped into the gap between history and literature. In Henry Adams in Washington, Ormond Seavey integrates the diverse aspects of Adams’s writing, arguing for his placement among the major American writers of the nineteenth century. Examining Adams’s nine-volume History, which Seavey argues demands renewed literary attention, as well as his two novels, Democracy and Esther, and his biographies of Albert Gallatin and John Randolph of Roanoke, Seavey shows how Adams reveals his own character and personality in his writings, particularly his fondness for the personal rather than the public sphere. As a historian writing in Washington, D.C., Adams surely encountered the expectation that public life takes precedence over the personal; in the execution of both his historical writing and his novels, however, he dwells instead on the personal costs of public life and the diminishment of public figures who lack a fulfilling personal life. Revealing Adams to be a missing link between the essential American writers in the time of Emerson and the modernist writers of the early twentieth century, Seavey shows his novels to be considerations of contemporary political issues while also recognizing the novelistic dimensions in his history and biographies.
Author : Davis W. Houck
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585441983
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)
Download or read book FDR and Fear Itself written by Davis W. Houck and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Houck then flashes back to the final year of the 1932 presidential campaign to show how Raymond Moley, the principal architect of the address, came to be trusted by Roosevelt to craft this important speech. Houck traces the relationships of Moley with Roosevelt and Roosevelt's influential confidante, Louis Howe, who was responsible for important changes in the speech's later drafts, including the famous aphorism."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Paul C. Nagel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674198296
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Descent from Glory written by Paul C. Nagel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has never been any doubt that the Adams family was America's first family in our politics and memory. This research-based and insightful book is a multigenerational biography of that family from the founder father John through the mordant writer Brooks.
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Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Adams National Historic Site, Statement for Management written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael O'Brien
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820329568
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Henry Adams & the Southern Question written by Michael O'Brien and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Strictly, the Southerner had no mind; he had temperament. He was not a scholar; he had no intellectual training; he could not analyze an idea, and he could not even conceive of admitting two.” This judgment, rendered in The Education of Henry Adams, may be the most quoted of Adams’s writings on the South. However, it is far from the only one of his beliefs that helped to shape a national outlook on the region from the late antebellum period to the present. Thinking about the South, says Michael O’Brien, was “part of being an Adams.” In this book O’Brien shows how Adams (grandson of President John Quincy Adams and great-grandson of President John Adams) looked at the region during various phases of his life. O’Brien explores the cultural and familial impulses behind those views and locates them in American intellectual history. He begins with the young Henry Adams, who served as his father’s secretary in the House of Representatives during the secession crises of 1860-1861 and in the American embassy in London during and after the Civil War, until 1868. O’Brien then covers a number of topics relevant to Adams’s outlook on the South, including his residency in that deceptively “southern” city, Washington, D.C.; his journalism on the Reconstruction-era South; his biographical or historical works on the Virginians John Randolph, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison; and his two novels, especially Democracy. Finally, O’Brien ponders the vein of southern self-criticism--exemplified by Wilbur J. Cash’s Mind of the South--that embraces the notorious slur so often quoted from The Education of Henry Adams.
