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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 : Erika Kuhlman
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814748392
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Of Little Comfort written by Erika Kuhlman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erika Kuhlamn focusses on the war and postwar experiences of people, based on letters, diaries, magazine articles, and correspondences between widows and their governments. The author offers a comparison between a victorious and a defeated nation: the United States and Germany.
Author : Jan M. Ziolkowski
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 178374524X
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)
Download or read book The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. written by Jan M. Ziolkowski and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life. Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth-century Paris, before its translation into English in Britain and the United States. The visual influence of the tale on Gothic revivalism and vice versa in America is carefully documented with lavish and inventive illustrations, and Ziolkowski concludes with an examination of the explosion of interest in The Juggler of Notre Dame in the twentieth century and its place in mass culture today. Volume 3: The American Middle Ages hinges upon two figures influenced by the juggler: Henry Adams, scion of Presidents and distinguished cultural historian whose works contributed to the rise of medievalism in America during the Gilded Age, and Ralph Adams Cram, the architect whose vision of Gothic accounts directly or indirectly for the campuses of West Point, Princeton, Yale, Chicago, Notre Dame, and many other universities across America. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity is a rich case study for the reception of the Middle Ages in modernity. Spanning centuries and continents, the medieval period is understood through the lens of its (post)modern reception in Europe and America. Profound connections between the verbal and the visual are illustrated by a rich trove of images, including book illustrations, stained glass, postage stamps, architecture, and Christmas cards. Presented with great clarity and simplicity, Ziolkowski's work is accessible to the general reader, while its many new discoveries will be valuable to academics in such fields and disciplines as medieval studies, medievalism, philology, literary history, art history, folklore, performance studies, and reception studies.
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 : Organization of American historians
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (723 download)
Download or read book The Journal of American History written by Organization of American historians and published by . This book was released on with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
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Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
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Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Artbibliographies Modern written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Markers written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-06 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 364 pages
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Download or read book America, History and Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
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Total Pages : 872 pages
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Download or read book American Doctoral Dissertations written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jennifer Wingate
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351549766
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Sculpting Doughboys written by Jennifer Wingate and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redressing the neglect of World War I memorials in art history scholarship, this volume shows why sculptures of 'doughboys' (US soldiers during World War I) were in such demand during the 1920s, and how their functions and meanings have evolved. Jennifer Wingate recovers and interprets the circumstances of the doughboy sculptures' creation, and offers a new perspective on the complex culture of interwar America and on present-day commemorative practices.
Author : Dean G. Lampros
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421448416
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Preserved written by Dean G. Lampros and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spirited look at how funeral homes impacted American consumerism, the built environment, and national identities. Funeral homes—those grand, aging mansions repurposed into spaces for embalming, merchandising, funeral services, and housing for the funeral director and their family—are immediately recognizable features of the American landscape, and yet the history of how these spaces emerged remains largely untold. In Preserved, Dean Lampros uses the history of this uniquely American architectural icon to explore the twentieth century's expanding consumer landscape and reveal how buildings can help construct identities. Across the United States, Lampros traces the funeral industry's early twentieth-century exodus from gloomy downtown undertaking parlors to outmoded Victorian houses in residential districts. As savvy retailers and accidental preservationists, funeral directors refashioned the interiors into sumptuous retail settings that stimulated consumer demand for luxury burial goods. These spaces allowed for more privacy and more parking, and they helped turn Americans away from traditional home funerals toward funeral homes instead. Moreover, by moving into neighborhoods that were once the domain of white elites, African American funeral directors uplifted their industry and altered the landscape of white supremacy. The funeral home has tracked major changes in American culture, including an increased reliance on the automobile and the rise of consumer culture. Preserved offers an in-depth cultural history of a space that is both instantly familiar and largely misunderstood.
Author : Corcoran Gallery of Art
Publisher : Lucia Marquand
ISBN 13 : 9781555953614
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (536 download)
Download or read book Corcoran Gallery of Art written by Corcoran Gallery of Art and published by Lucia Marquand. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.
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Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
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Author : Harvard University. Library
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Total Pages : 816 pages
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