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Rethinking America's Past

Author : Tim Gruenewald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781947602144
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking America's Past written by Tim Gruenewald and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While visitors to art and history museums may be there to simply enjoy the curated objects, the question of what is included (and excluded) in these collections and who has the power over this process echoes the struggle for inclusion that is so central to the African American experience. Since its inception, the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection® has played an important role in this struggle, seeking out objects that give voice to previously excluded experiences, and providing an alternative to the limits of institutional collections. Among the first scholarly books dedicated to a private African American collection, Rethinking America's Past: Voices from the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection both chronicles the reach of this important cultural collection and contributes to its project by sharing selected objects and stories with a broader audience. Essays range in subject from iconic African American artists, such as Loïs Mailou Jones and Beauford Delaney, to important historical figures such as Frederick Douglas and Martin Luther King, to individuals whose experiences might be lost to history but for the found objects that preserve their stories. Rethinking America's Past demonstrates how the African American story, from slavery through the present, is represented and can be actively remembered through the act of collecting. Rethinking America's Past will appeal to audiences interested in African American history as well as art history, but its real power is in linking the two, showing how important collections are in constructing and repairing historical narratives, and how in the words of editor Tim Gruenewald, "Collecting overlooked aspects of our past and sharing such collections enables a deeper understanding of the present moment, and facilitates a more inclusive and just future."

American Glass

Author : John Stuart Gordon
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300226691
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book American Glass written by John Stuart Gordon and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Glass can be decorative or utilitarian, and its forms often reflect technological innovations and social change. Drawing on an insightful selection from the Yale University Art Gallery and other collections at Yale, American Glass illuminates the vital and often intimate roles that glass has played in the nation's art and culture. Spectacularly illustrated, the publication showcases eighteenth-century mold-blown vessels, nineteenth-century pressed glass, innovative studio work, and luminous stained-glass windows by John La Farge and Louis Comfort Tiffany, the latter reproduced as a lush gatefold. These are considered alongside beguiling objects that broaden our expectations of glass and speak to the centrality of the medium in American life, including one of the oldest complex microscopes in the United States, an early Edison light bulb, glass-plate photography, jewelry, and more. With an essay on the history of collecting American glass and discussions of each object that present new scholarship, this engaging book tells the long and rich history of glass in America--from prehistoric minerals to contemporary sculptures"--Dust jacket front flap.

The Impossible Collection of American Wine

Author : Enrico Bernardo
Publisher : Assouline Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614288488
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book The Impossible Collection of American Wine written by Enrico Bernardo and published by Assouline Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the same series as Assouline’s original The Impossible Collection of Wine: The 100 Most Exceptional Vintages of the Twentieth Century this addition to the Ultimate Collection envisions a cellar brimming with the most remarkable American wines. The Impossible Collection of Wine: The 100 Most Exceptional and Collectible American Wines highlights wines from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries produced by the finest vineyards. Celebrating vintages from the legendary 1964 Beaulieu Vineyard Georges de Latour to the more recent yet striking 2010 Ultramarine Blanc de Blancs, this collection reflects all the diversity and beauty that American wine has to offer. Author Enrico Bernardo, Best Sommelier of the World 2004, explores the world of endless surprises that wine has to offer, as well as the joy and memories that it can bring to all those who appreciate it. Including wines from Napa to Walla Walla Valley, the selection takes into account rarity, terroir, taste, and historical mystique. Bernardo celebrates the most exquisite vintages, inviting the reader on a journey through the unique history of American wine, from its beginnings with the Founding Fathers to the momentous Judgment of Paris and the distinct Napa Valley culture of today. Bringing readers on a journey from 1955 to 2016, Bernardo curates a list any connoisseur could only dream of.

The Kinsey Collection

Author : Khalil B. Kinsey ($e writer of added commentary)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982622537
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book The Kinsey Collection written by Khalil B. Kinsey ($e writer of added commentary) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

America and the Art of Flanders

Author : Esmée Quodbach
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271086088
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (86 download)

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Book Synopsis America and the Art of Flanders by : Esmée Quodbach

Download or read book America and the Art of Flanders written by Esmée Quodbach and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays by twelve scholars and museum curators examining the allure of Flemish painting to Americans over the past centuries, chronicling the roles played by determined individuals in forming private and public collections.

The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery

Author : Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery written by Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery houses one of the most highly regarded collections of twentieth-century American art anywhere, including paintings by Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Marsden Hartley, Robert Motherwell, Robert Henri, Grant Wood, Frank Stella, and many more internationally renowned artists. Calling the Sheldon collection "exemplary," the art historian and critic Barbara Rose notes: "Because the collection does not reflect fashion, the misguided inspiration of much art collecting today, but is rather an effort of connoisseurship, and informed by an art historical viewpoint, it is certain to remain as durable and exciting tomorrow as it is today." The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery offers for the first time a full description of the collection, now numbering more than one thousand works, that has been nearly a century in the making. The first part of the book presents full-color reproductions of 101 of the most noteworthy paintings in the collection, each accompanied by a brief discussion of the artist and his or her work. The second part, or catalog, consists of a complete inventory of the collection, including for each painting its physical description, provenance, exhibition history, and publication history, as well as a black and white reproduction. Publication of the book coincides with a year-long celebration of the centennial of the Nebraska Art Association, the Sheldon Gallery's support group and one of the oldest continuous arts organizations in the country.

The Americas Revealed

Author : Edward J. Sullivan
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271079523
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (795 download)

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Download or read book The Americas Revealed written by Edward J. Sullivan and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the formation of public and private collections of Spanish Colonial and modern Latin American art throughout the United States, and the impact of the ever-changing political landscape of Latin American countries.

Faces of Impressionism

Author : Sona Johnston
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Faces of Impressionism written by Sona Johnston and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From traditional, tightly rendered likenesses to light-filled, loosely brushed paintings, the works in this volume depict a variety of subjects: friends, family members, patrons, public figures, and the artists themselves.

The Plains and the Rockies

Author : Henry R. Wagner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780815001430
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Plains and the Rockies written by Henry R. Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

“The” American Collections

Author : Norma J. Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780091881207
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (812 download)

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Download or read book “The” American Collections written by Norma J. Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Care of Antiques and Historical Collections

Author : Per Ernst Guldbeck
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780761991359
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book The Care of Antiques and Historical Collections written by Per Ernst Guldbeck and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 1995 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Care of Antiques and Historical Collections is a wonderful handbook that gives you and your staff the crucial knowledge you need to start and maintain sound programs of storage, display and environmental control for your historical artifacts. Providing instruction for both the expert and novice conservationist, MacLeish offers sound advice on how you can take a few active measures to protect, clean, repair, and care for objects most commonly found in museums or private collections. This is MacLeish's fully revised and greatly expanded edition of Per E. Gudbeck's classic The Care of Historical Collections.

The Rockefeller Collection of American Art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Author : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Publisher : Museums
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Rockefeller Collection of American Art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco written by Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and published by Museums. This book was released on 1994 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The American art collection assembled by Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd during the 1960s and 1970s constitutes one of the great private collections of historic American painting. This book examines the collection in depth, focusing on 140 works donated to The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in the years since 1979." "The works reproduced include examples from America's foremost realist masters. Among them are portraits by John Singleton Copley and Charles Willson Peale; landscapes by Thomas Cole, Frederic E. Church, and Martin Johnson Heade; George Caleb Bingham's extraordinary Boatmen on the Missouri; one of Edward Hick's most ambitious treatments of The Peaceable Kingdom; watercolors, drawings, and an early Civil War oil by Winslow Homer; and works by Eastman Johnson, Thomas Anshutz, John Frederick Peto, Grant Wood, Charles Sheeler, and Andrew Wyeth." "Each work is reproduced here in full color. The accompanying texts, comprised of extracts from contemporary accounts by artists, critics, patrons, and sitters, are lively and illuminating guides to understanding each work's history and significance. A detailed history of ownership and public exhibition and a selected bibliography are also provided for each painting. In many cases, this is the first time these important materials have appeared in print." "The fascinating introductory essay examines the context of the Rockefellers' collecting, the directions they considered in forming the collection, their increasing sense of responsibility toward it, and factors they considered in its disposition."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Selections from the American Collections

Author : Brooks Memorial Art Gallery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Selections from the American Collections written by Brooks Memorial Art Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1975* with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Infinity of Nations

Author : National Museum of the American Indian
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006154731X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Infinity of Nations written by National Museum of the American Indian and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Museum of the American Indian is one of the world's great conservators of cultural heritage, and its collections hold more than 800,000 objects spanning 13,000 years of history of the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere, from Tierra del Fuego in the south to the Arctic in the north. Drawing on new insights from archaeology, history, and art history, Infinity of Nations uses culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant objects as a point of entry to understanding the people who created them. Following an introduction on the power of objects to engage our imagination, each chapter presents an overview of a region of the Americas and its cultural complexities, written by a noted specialist on that region. Community knowledge-keepers and an impressive new generation of Native scholars contribute highlights on objects that represent important ideas or that capture moments of social change. Together these writers create an extraordinary mosaic. What emerges is a portrait of a complex and dynamic world shaped from its earliest history by contact and exchange among peoples. Illustrated with more than 200 strikingly beautiful photographs published here for the first time, Infinity of Nations opens new avenues that extend well beyond those of conventional cultural studies. Authoritative and accessible, here is an important resource for anyone interested in learning about Native cultures of the Americas.

American Made

Author : Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783791353869
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book American Made written by Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Huntington's finest examples of American Art are brought together for the first time in an innovative format that connects them through compelling visual juxtapositions to tell the story of American art in microcosm. Coinciding with the American gallery's thirtieth anniversary, this innovatively designed book features paintings, sculptures, decorative and graphic arts. Accompanied by thoughtful historical essays, American Made celebrates a collection that has grown from fifty paintings to more than 12,000 objects, making The Huntington one of the finest repositories of American art in the US.

African Art in American Collections

Author : Warren M. Robbins
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780764320057
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book African Art in American Collections written by Warren M. Robbins and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2004-01 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African art -- with its powerful forms, complex symbolism, and formal inventiveness -- has only recently come to be recognized as one of the great artistic traditions of mankind. This rich tradition is showcased here in a remarkable selection of outstanding works. Nearly 1,600 objects are illustrated, each accompanied by scholarly information on style, usage, meaning, and cultural origin. Featured individually by section are the styles of Western Sudan, the West African Coastal Region, West Central Africa, Central Africa, and Eastern and Southern Africa. A thought-provoking introduction helps readers understand the significance of African art as a form of human creative expression, its relationships to contemporary Western art, and the controversies surrounding it in the world's museums. Newcomers to the field as well as professionals will find many questions answered in the text and captions. FThis comprehensive survey of some 230 styles of African art is an essential reference for scholars, teachers, students, curators, collectors, and dealers.

Sister Wendy's American Collection

Author : Wendy Beckett
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780007101276
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Sister Wendy's American Collection written by Wendy Beckett and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Sister Wendy chooses some of her favourite pieces of art from six US museums of her choice. These are the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art.