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American Weathervanes

Author : Robert Shaw
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847863905
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book American Weathervanes written by Robert Shaw and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds, published to coincide with an exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum, reveals the beauty, historical significance, and technical virtuosity of American vanes fashioned between the late seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. This American art form has long been an enduring part of the country's skylines. Early church steeples were graced with weathercocks, following a European tradition that dates to the MiddleAges. America's first documented vane maker, metalsmith Shem Drowne of Boston, crafted a number of surviving vanes, including the iconic golden grasshopper that has topped the city's Faneuil Hall since 1742. Farmers, blacksmiths, and other craftsmen proudly fashioned roosters, cows, horses, and other forms for country barns, and as the tradition and public demand expanded over the course of the nineteenth century, so did the diversity of forms, which grew to fill the mail order catalogs of commercial manufacturers in Boston, New York, and other cities. Today, weathervanes hold a well-established place in the canon of American folk art and American Weathervanes celebrates this artistry in the most up-to-date and authoritative work on the subject. Lavishly illustrated with masterworks from prominent private and public collections, this is a book to be treasured by anyone who collects or simply admires American vernacular art and sculpture.

Making a Copper Weathervane

Author : Bruce Helmreich
Publisher : Schiffer Craft
ISBN 13 : 9780764332074
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Making a Copper Weathervane written by Bruce Helmreich and published by Schiffer Craft. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using over 290 crisp color images, 25 detailed line drawings, and concise text, Bruce Helmreich guides readers through the steps necessary to build a hand-hammered copper weathervane. This step-by-step guide transforms a sheet of copper into a fully functioning weathervane. Folk art subjects used in American weathervanes are shown, including domesticated and wild animals, birds, occupations, patriotic themes, and transportation. Create your own design or use the complete set of plans included to produce a traditional rooster weathervane. Using basic tools (tin snips and hammers), ageless techniques, and sheet copper available at your local sheet metal shop, this book will teach you how to make a weathervane that will serve your roof for years. Whether you are an experienced metal worker, or a woodworker who is looking for a challenge, this is the book for you.

The Art of the Weathervane

Author : Steve Miller
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780887400056
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of the Weathervane written by Steve Miller and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From classic folk art styles to never-before-seen designs, weathervanes from many sources illustrate the distinctive vitality of this artistic form. 60 color plates bring many weathervanes to life visually, as they serve as both practical wind direction indicators and decorative architectural ornaments. Manufacturers are identified and their backgrounds are explored.

Drawing on America's Past

Author :
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807827949
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Drawing on America's Past written by and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents watercolor renderings along with a selection of the artifacts in the Index of American Design, a visual archive of decorative, folk, and popular arts made in America from the colonial period to about 1900. Three essays explore the history, operation, and ambitions of the Index of American Design, examine folk art collecting in America during the early decades of the twentieth century, and consider the Index's role in the search for a national cultural identity in the early twentieth-century United States.

The Rain in Portugal

Author : Billy Collins
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0399588302
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Rain in Portugal written by Billy Collins and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins comes a twelfth collection of poetry offering over fifty new poems that showcase the generosity, wit, and imaginative play that prompted The Wall Street Journal to call him “America’s favorite poet.” The Rain in Portugal—a title that admits he’s not much of a rhymer—sheds Collins’s ironic light on such subjects as travel and art, cats and dogs, loneliness and love, beauty and death. His tones range from the whimsical—“the dogs of Minneapolis . . . / have no idea they’re in Minneapolis”—to the elegiac in a reaction to the death of Seamus Heaney. A student of the everyday, Collins here contemplates a weather vane, a still life painting, the calendar, and a child lost at a beach. His imaginative fabrications have Shakespeare flying comfortably in first class and Keith Richards supporting the globe on his head. By turns entertaining, engaging, and enlightening, The Rain in Portugal amounts to another chorus of poems from one of the most respected and familiar voices in the world of American poetry. Praise for The Rain in Portugal “Nothing in Billy Collins’s twelfth book . . . is exactly what readers might expect, and that’s the charm of this collection.”—The Washington Post “This new collection shows [Collins] at his finest. . . . Certain to please his large readership and a good place for readers new to Collins to begin.”—Library Journal “Disarmingly playful and wistfully candid.”—Booklist

A Gallery of American Weathervanes and Whirligigs

Author : Robert Bishop
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book A Gallery of American Weathervanes and Whirligigs written by Robert Bishop and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1984 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bonnie Bess, the Weathervane Horse

Author : Alvin Tresselt
Publisher : Parents Magazine Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819303745
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Bonnie Bess, the Weathervane Horse written by Alvin Tresselt and published by Parents Magazine Press. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the farm is abandoned, Bonnie Bess's usefulness as a weathervane horse is almost ended.

Keepers of Tradition

Author : Maggie Holtzberg
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558496408
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book Keepers of Tradition written by Maggie Holtzberg and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Massachusetts, artists carry on and revitalise deeply rooted traditions that take many expressive forms - from Native American basketry to Yankee wooden boats, Armenian lace, Chinese seals, and Irish music and dance. This illustrated volume celebrates and shares the work of a wide array of these living artists.

Find the Girl

Author : Lightsey Darst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781566892445
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book Find the Girl written by Lightsey Darst and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetic exposé of girlhood, obsession, and the CSI industry.

The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table

Author : Sir Thomas Malory
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606600907
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table written by Sir Thomas Malory and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-11-16 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur is the basis for the vast literature concerning King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Malory compiled, translated, and edited the tales from earlier French sources, and all later authors who added to Arthurian legend are indebted to his work. This handsome edition features 16 of Arthur Rackham's finest color illustrations, and Malory's text was edited for modern readers by English scholar Alfred W. Pollard. An essential treasury edition for any collector of Arthurian myths or Rackham enthusiast. Film fans will also cherish this deluxe hardcover: the stories have inspired numerous movie adaptations, including the 2017 release Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur, directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Charlie Hunnam, Jude Law, Eric Bana, Djimon Hounsou, and Annabelle Wallis.

To Life!

Author : Linda Weintraub
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520273613
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book To Life! written by Linda Weintraub and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns, from Ant Farms anti-consumer antics in the 1970s to Marina Zurkows 2007 animation that anticipates the havoc wreaked upon the planet by global warming.

Open Studio

Author : Sharon Coplan Hurowitz
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781838661281
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Open Studio written by Sharon Coplan Hurowitz and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book invites you into the private studios of seventeen of the most celebrated contemporary artists as they draw, paint, sculpt, or design an original project for readers to recreate at home. It demystifies the studio practice through the fun, accessible format of D.I.Y., leading you step-by-step through each artist's project. Eight inserts specially designed by the artists for completing their projects - from stencils to cut-outs - are included. The result can inspire people everywhere to blaze their own creative trails

Yankee Weathervanes

Author : Myrna Kaye
Publisher : Dutton Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Yankee Weathervanes written by Myrna Kaye and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1975 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bingo

Author : Michael Heitzman
Publisher : Samuel French, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780573700194
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Bingo written by Michael Heitzman and published by Samuel French, Incorporated. This book was released on 2012 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bingo is a splashy, zippy, fun new musical comedy - great for theatres looking to produce a small musical with a big heart. Bingo is about a group of die-hard bingo players who stop at nothing to miss their weekly game. In between the number calling, strange rituals and fierce competitions, love blossoms and long lost friends reunite. These lovable characters spring to life with a smart, funny script and bouncy, hummable score. Audiences will be laughing in the aisles when they aren't playing games of bingo along with the cast! Best friends and Bingo pals Vern, Honey and Patsy brave a terrible storm in order to attend the yearly celebration of the birth of Bingo and tribute to its founder, Edwin S. Lowe. As the storm knocks out power at the Bingo Hall, Patsy and Honey remind each other of the ominous night fifteen years ago that began in the same way. In flashback, Honey tells us about the night Vern and her best friend, Bernice, had their falling out. Bernice's sweet, yet headstrong daughter, Alison, enters the Bingo hall in disguise - Bernice's health is failing, and Alison is determined, with the help of Bingo, to reunite her mother with her long-lost best friend.

Weathervanes of New England

Author : Glenn A. Knoblock
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476630224
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Weathervanes of New England written by Glenn A. Knoblock and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First used to gauge New England's ever-changing weather, now viewed as American folk art, historic weathervanes have been a part of the region's skyline for more than three centuries. Focusing on examples that can still be seen in public, this comprehensive study of the development of the weathervane describes changes in form and function from colonial times to the present, and also documents the histories of weathervane makers throughout New England.

Silhouettes in the Sky

Author : Jean M. Burks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780939384327
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Silhouettes in the Sky written by Jean M. Burks and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of an exhibit of weathervanes in the collection of the Shelburne Museum, a leading folk, fine, and decorative arts museum in Shelburne, Vermont.

Encyclopedia of American Folk Art

Author : Gerard C. Wertkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135956154
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Folk Art written by Gerard C. Wertkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of American Folk Art web site. This is the first comprehensive, scholarly study of a most fascinating aspect of American history and culture. Generously illustrated with both black and white and full-color photos, this A-Z encyclopedia covers every aspect of American folk art, encompassing not only painting, but also sculpture, basketry, ceramics, quilts, furniture, toys, beadwork, and more, including both famous and lesser-known genres. Containing more than 600 articles, this unique reference considers individual artists, schools, artistic, ethnic, and religious traditions, and heroes who have inspired folk art. An incomparable resource for general readers, students, and specialists, it will become essential for anyone researching American art, culture, and social history.