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Author : Claire Upton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Brooklyn Bridge, an American Symbol in the Arts written by Claire Upton and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Haw
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136603662
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Art of the Brooklyn Bridge written by Richard Haw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brooklyn Bridge is a pre-eminent global icon. It is the world’s most famous and beloved bridge, a "must-see" tourist hotspot, and a vital fact of New York life. For almost a hundred and forty years it has inspired artists of all descriptions, fueling a constant stream of paintings, photographs, lithographs, etchings, advertising copy, movies, and book, magazine, and LP covers. In consequence, the bridge may have the richest visual history of any man-made object, so much so, in fact, that almost no major American artist has failed to pay homage to the span in some form or other. Oddly, however, there are no books currently available that chart and discuss the bridge’s visual history or its role in the development of American (or Western) art. This monograph aims to correct that, providing a full visual record of the bridge from the origins of its conception to the present day. It is a celebration of the bridge’s glorious visual heritage timed to appear when the city will celebrate the span’s 125th birthday.
Author : Gabrielle Marie Langholtz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (411 download)
Download or read book The Symbolism of the Brooklyn Bridge in American Painting and Poetry written by Gabrielle Marie Langholtz and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Trachtenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226811158
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Brooklyn Bridge written by Alan Trachtenberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1979-07-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen of Walker Evans's evocative photographs of Brooklyn Bridge, most of which have never been published, appear in this edition of Alan Trachenberg's Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol. In the new afterword Trachenberg explores the history of Hart Crane's The Bridge, especially the poem's integral relationship with the powerful photography of Evans. "[Brooklyn Bridge] is familiar in so many movies, in so many stage sets and, as Mr. Trachtenberg shows in this brilliant . . . book, it is at least as much a symbol as a reality. . . . Mr. Trachtenberg is always exciting and illuminating."—Times Literary Supplement "The book is a skillful and insightful synthesis of materials about Brooklyn Bridge from such diverse fields as history, engineering, literature and art. Essentially it asks the question of why Brooklyn Bridge achieved such great impact on the nineteenth century American imagination and why it has continued to have a significant impact on twentieth century art and literature. In addition to its exploration of the bridge's symbolic significance, which includes perceptive analyses of such particular works as Hart Crane's great poem cycle and the paintings of artists like Joseph Stella, the book also includes a solidly researched account of the conception, planning and construction of the bridge. Trachtenberg's account of the intellectual and cultural sources of the bridge is particularly fascinating in its demonstration of the convergence of many different philosophical and ideological currents of the time around this great engineering enterprise, illustrating as effectively as any discussion I know the complex interplay of ideas and material culture."—John G. Cawelti, University of Chicago "Alan Trachtenberg's Brooklyn Bridge is a fascinating story, the philosophic genesis of the idea in Europe, John Roebling's heroic effort to translate it into masonry and steel, and the meanings that Americans attached to the physical object as an emblem of their aspirations."—Leo Marx, Amherst College, author of The Machine in the Garden
Author : Jonathan Chase Cook
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537685199
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (851 download)
Download or read book The Illustrated Brooklyn Bridge written by Jonathan Chase Cook and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated romp through the imagination, culture, art and history of the Brooklyn Bridge and its influence on America. In the mid 19th century, the dream, desire, money and technology all came together in one place and time to create a new world wonder of a bridge. The Great East River Bridge (as it was known before officially taking the title of the Brooklyn Bridge) was a bridge of imagination, science, engineering, art, sacrifice and economic progress. The bridge was not only a wonder of its time, it stands today as an iconic masterpiece to American innovation and functional longevity. The Brooklyn Bridge has stood the test of time so well that it still serves as a very functional bridge decades after other bridges of its time, and later, have been retired to the scrap heap, smoothly transitioning from horse and buggy to modern automobile traffic. But it is more than a bridge or even an architectural masterpiece. It is also a symbol of progress, effort, and the indomitable spirit of creativity. The bridge represents a soul of sorts. A soul of the city, of the people, of progress, of history, of blood and sweat, of sacrifice, and much more.
Author :
Publisher : Hudson Hills
ISBN 13 : 9781555951726
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Bridge of Dreams written by and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 1999 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the architectural and engineering wonders of the world.
Author : Richard Haw
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136603670
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Art of the Brooklyn Bridge written by Richard Haw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brooklyn Bridge is a pre-eminent global icon. It is the world’s most famous and beloved bridge, a "must-see" tourist hotspot, and a vital fact of New York life. For almost a hundred and forty years it has inspired artists of all descriptions, fueling a constant stream of paintings, photographs, lithographs, etchings, advertising copy, movies, and book, magazine, and LP covers. In consequence, the bridge may have the richest visual history of any man-made object, so much so, in fact, that almost no major American artist has failed to pay homage to the span in some form or other. Oddly, however, there are no books currently available that chart and discuss the bridge’s visual history or its role in the development of American (or Western) art. This monograph aims to correct that, providing a full visual record of the bridge from the origins of its conception to the present day. It is a celebration of the bridge’s glorious visual heritage timed to appear when the city will celebrate the span’s 125th birthday.
Author : Richard Haw
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813535876
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (358 download)
Download or read book The Brooklyn Bridge written by Richard Haw and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bringing together more than sixty images of the bridge that, over the years, have graced postcards, magazine covers, and book jackets and appeared in advertisements, cartoons, films, and photographs, Haw traces the diverse and sometimes jarring ways in which this majestic structure has been received, adopted, and interpreted as an American idea. Haw's account is not a history of how the bridge was made, but rather of what people have made of the Brooklyn Bridge - in film, music, literature, art, and politics - from its opening ceremonies to the blackout of 2003."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Alan Trachtenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Brooklyn Bridge, Fact and Symbol (1869-1930) written by Alan Trachtenberg and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Therese Southgate
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199753830
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The Art of JAMA written by M. Therese Southgate and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of JAMA, Vol. III contains selected covers from the Journal of the American Medical Association, with accompanying essays that explore the background of the artists and the circumstances under which the work was completed, followed by commentary on the work itself. Selected and edited by Dr. M. Therese Southgate, JAMA contributing editor.
Author : John Davis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118542541
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (185 download)
Download or read book A Companion to American Art written by John Davis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-01-23 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to American Art presents 35 newly-commissioned essays by leading scholars that explore the methodology, historiography, and current state of the field of American art history. Features contributions from a balance of established and emerging scholars, art and architectural historians, and other specialists Includes several paired essays to emphasize dialogue and debate between scholars on important contemporary issues in American art history Examines topics such as the methodological stakes in the writing of American art history, changing ideas about what constitutes “Americanness,” and the relationship of art to public culture Offers a fascinating portrait of the evolution and current state of the field of American art history and suggests future directions of scholarship
Author : Sarah Kate Gillespie
Publisher : University of Georgia, Georgia Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 9780915977956
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (779 download)
Download or read book Icon of Modernism written by Sarah Kate Gillespie and published by University of Georgia, Georgia Museum of Art. This book was released on 2016 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander McGregor (Ph. D.)
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1934043591
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Shaping of Popular Consent written by Alexander McGregor (Ph. D.) and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book questions the view of the current orthodoxy which argues that the Soviet Union and the United States were binary opposites in the 1930s. The Shaping of Popular Consent presents a comparative analysis of one specific facet of the USSR and the US, namely the manner in which their ruling elites sought to win popular consent. A key dimension in the analysis of any political order, this issue recommends itself precisely because the assumption that, in this the two were quite dissimilar, is the virtual point of departure for the current thinking. To sharpen the focus of the comparison, the book concentrates on the role of the visual arts and the manner and extent to which those in power employed them to attempt to win popular consent. Therefore, this book poses two questions. Firstly, to what extent did the ruling elites in both the USSR and the US believe they needed the people's faith/trust in the system? Secondly, different as the two societies were, to what extent might they have employed similar use of visual cultural media in their attempts to win "hearts and minds"? The study explores the interwar years, specifically 1929-1941. This was an era of great upheaval in both the USSR and the US and marks the beginning of the age of mass communication. The book examines if, how, and to what extent Soviet and American cultural producers, during the years 1929-1941, employed the visual arts, cinema in particular but also painting, the plastic arts, theatre and architecture, to promote, essentially, the establishments' rights and wrongs, heroes and villains. It does so exploring both the domestic and the international scene. It illustrates that, despite giant differences between the two countries, in the way the two establishments sought to win popular consent the binary view is simply inaccurate. Perhaps more importantly, it demonstrates the need for a plethora of wide-ranging comparative studies of the Soviet Union and the United States. Indeed, through recognizing the importance of comparing and contrasting the USSR and the US, and by attempting to do just that, we might learn to better understand how, in what ways and for what purposes these two countries, so central to our understanding of the modern world, were organized. Thus, this work is genuinely comparative, inter-disciplinary and cultural. Indeed, the study is part of a vanguard movement. It is of significant value to scholars of both the USSR, Stalinism and Soviet art and the US, the New Deal and Hollywood. Finally, building on work by Noam Chomsky, Anotonio Gramsci and others such as Benedict Anderson's book Imagined Communities, the book will be of tremendous interests to many (both students and interested parties alike) who have an interest in how identities are constructed, how propaganda is manufactured and just how the (ostensibly) divergent philosophies of modern governments are represented in popular culture.
Author : Elizabeth Tucker
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617038652
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)
Download or read book New York State Folklife Reader written by Elizabeth Tucker and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York and its folklore scholars hold an important place in the history of the discipline. In New York dialogue between folklore researchers in the academy and those working in the public arena has been highly productive. In this volume, the works of New York's academic and public folklorists are presented together. Unlike some folklore anthologies, New York State Folklife Reader does not follow an organizational plan based on regions or genres. Because the New York Folklore Society has always tried to “give folklore back to the people,” the editors decided to divide the edited volume into sections about life processes that all New York state residents share. The book begins with five essays on various aspects of folk cultural memory: personal, family, community, and historical processes of remembrance expressed through narrative, ritual, and other forms of folklore. Following these essays, subsequent sections explore aspects of life in New York through the lens of Play, Work, Resistance, and Food. Both the New York Folklore Society and its journal were, as society cofounder Louis Jones explained, “intended to reach not just the professional folklorists but those of the general public who were interested in the oral traditions of the State.” Written in an accessible and readable style, this volume offers a glimpse into New York State's rich cultural diversity.
Author : Stephanie Schrader
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606066277
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book True Grit written by Stephanie Schrader and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging look at early twentieth-century American printmaking, which frequently focused on the crowded, chaotic, and gritty modern city. In the first half of the twentieth century, a group of American artists influenced by the painter and teacher Robert Henri aimed to reject the pretenses of academic fine art and polite society. Embracing the democratic inclusiveness of the Progressive movement, these artists turned to making prints, which were relatively inexpensive to produce and easy to distribute. For their subject matter, the artists mined the bustling activity and stark realities of the urban centers in which they lived and worked. Their prints feature sublime towering skyscrapers and stifling city streets, jazzy dance halls and bleak tenement interiors—intimate and anonymous everyday scenes that addressed modern life in America. True Grit examines a rich selection of prints by well-known figures like George Bellows, Edward Hopper, Joseph Pennell, and John Sloan as well as lesser-known artists such as Ida Abelman, Peggy Bacon, Miguel Covarrubias, and Mabel Dwight. Written by three scholars of printmaking and American art, the essays present nuanced discussions of gender, class, literature, and politics, contextualizing the prints in the rapidly changing milieu of the first decades of twentieth-century America.
Author : Thomas J. Schlereth
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780761991601
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Material Culture Studies in America written by Thomas J. Schlereth and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 1999 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The country's leading authority on use of artifactual evidence in historical research collects twenty-five classic essays and gives his overview of the field of material culture.
Author : Fred Mandell Ph.D.
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110144231X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Becoming a Life Change Artist written by Fred Mandell Ph.D. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Artist's Way meets What Color is Your Parachute? in an innovative approach to reinventing yourself at any stage of life. Leonardo da Vinci, Monet, Picasso, and Berthe Morisot are some of the most creative thinkers in history. What do these artists have in common with you? More than you think, if you're looking to tackle a major life transition. The skills these artists used to produce their masterpieces are the same abilities required to make successful shifts-whether it's finding a new career or a new purpose or calling in life. In Becoming a Life Change Artist, Fred Mandell and Kathleen Jordan share the groundbreaking approach made popular in their workshops across the country. There are seven key strengths that the most creative minds of history shared, and that anyone rethinking their future can cultivate to change their life effectively: *Preparing the brain to undertake creative work *Seeing the world and one's life from new perspectives *Using context to understand the facets of one's life *Embracing uncertainty *Taking risks *Collaborating *Applying discipline * As Mandell and Jordan illuminate, at its heart, making a major life change is a fluid process. But, armed with these seven key skills, anyone can overcome the bumps and obstacles effectively. With targeted exercises throughout, this is a book for all ages and stages-from those looking to transition to a new career to people embarking on retirement. Becoming a Life Change Artist sparks the luminous creativity that lies within each of us.
