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Book Synopsis The Tasteful Interlude by : William Seale
Download or read book The Tasteful Interlude written by William Seale and published by Altamira Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historian's dilemma is illustrated in these photographs of interiors. As complete room settings, most of them are quite foreign to us; we identify only with their parts--a familiar type of chair or table or vase. Household things are common fragments of history; their individual meanings and purposes are redefined rapidly, and their contexts are subject to alteration. Some objects survive many years because they are adaptable. Others grown obsolete and are discarded. The thousands of household things that appear in these pictures are seen as they were in actual daily use in the past. It is probable that the rooms did not remain as we see them for very long, for small revisions take place endlessly in any house. Were it not for the cameras of some six dozen photographers, these few scenes would have passed away quietly.
Book Synopsis The tasteful interlude ; American interiors through the camera's eye, 1860-1917 by :
Download or read book The tasteful interlude ; American interiors through the camera's eye, 1860-1917 written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Houses and Homes by : Barbara J. Howe
Download or read book Houses and Homes written by Barbara J. Howe and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 1997 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the Nearby History series helps the reader document the history of a home. The reader will learn to examine written records, oral testimonies, visual sources, and the house's surroundings. The author covers American housing patterns, the individual characteristics of houses in different regions, construction techniques and materials, household technology, and family life styles. Houses and Homes is Volume 2 in The Nearby History Series.
Download or read book Old-House Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1975-09 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old-House Journal is the original magazine devoted to restoring and preserving old houses. For more than 35 years, our mission has been to help old-house owners repair, restore, update, and decorate buildings of every age and architectural style. Each issue explores hands-on restoration techniques, practical architectural guidelines, historical overviews, and homeowner stories--all in a trusted, authoritative voice.
Download or read book Home written by Witold Rybczynski and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1987-07-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walk through five centuries of homes both great and small—from the smoke-filled manor halls of the Middle Ages to today's Ralph Lauren-designed environments—on a house tour like no other, one that delightfully explicates the very idea of "home." You'll see how social and cultural changes influenced styles of decoration and furnishing, learn the connection between wall-hung religious tapestries and wall-to-wall carpeting, discover how some of our most welcome luxuries were born of architectural necessity, and much more. Most of all, Home opens a rare window into our private lives—and how we really want to live.
Download or read book Old-House Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1984-08 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old-House Journal is the original magazine devoted to restoring and preserving old houses. For more than 35 years, our mission has been to help old-house owners repair, restore, update, and decorate buildings of every age and architectural style. Each issue explores hands-on restoration techniques, practical architectural guidelines, historical overviews, and homeowner stories--all in a trusted, authoritative voice.
Book Synopsis New York Interiors at the Turn of the Century by : Joseph Byron
Download or read book New York Interiors at the Turn of the Century written by Joseph Byron and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descriptive notes and a discussion of stylistic influences augment one hundred thirty-one rare photographs portraying the interiors of New York City homes, businesses, and public places between 1893 and 1916
Download or read book CRM written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Real Thing written by Miles Orvell and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic study of the relationship between technology and culture, Miles Orvell demonstrates that the roots of contemporary popular culture reach back to the Victorian era, when mechanical replications of familiar objects reigned supreme and realism dominated artistic representation. Reacting against this genteel culture of imitation, a number of artists and intellectuals at the turn of the century were inspired by the machine to create more authentic works of art that were themselves "real things." The resulting tension between a culture of imitation and a culture of authenticity, argues Orvell, has become a defining category in our culture. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition includes a new preface by the author, looking back on the late twentieth century and assessing tensions between imitation and authenticity in the context of our digital age. Considering material culture, photography, and literature, the book touches on influential figures such as writers Walt Whitman, Henry James, John Dos Passos, and James Agee; photographers Alfred Stieglitz, Walker Evans, and Margaret Bourke-White; and architect-designers Gustav Stickley and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Book Synopsis Point Loma Lighthouse by : Katherine Menz
Download or read book Point Loma Lighthouse written by Katherine Menz and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Selling Culture by : Richard Malin Ohmann
Download or read book Selling Culture written by Richard Malin Ohmann and published by Verso. This book was released on 1996 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the new practices of advertising, mass distribution of goods, and the birth of the inexpensive mass-audience magazine at the end of the 19th century, and their role in the creation of the American professional-managerial class. Focuses on magazine publishing, careers of key personalities in the publishing world, and the role of fiction in the magazines. For students and general readers. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Love Entwined written by Helen Sheumaker and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a wide array of evidence drawn from poetry, fiction, diaries, letters, and examples of hairwork, Love Entwined traces the widespread popularity of the craft from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century.
Book Synopsis Material Culture by : Kenneth L. Ames
Download or read book Material Culture written by Kenneth L. Ames and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Historic Furnishing Plan, Clara Barton House, Clara Barton National Historic Site, Maryland by : Sandra Weber
Download or read book Historic Furnishing Plan, Clara Barton House, Clara Barton National Historic Site, Maryland written by Sandra Weber and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Arts and the American Home, 1890-1930 by : Jessica H. Foy
Download or read book The Arts and the American Home, 1890-1930 written by Jessica H. Foy and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1995-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1890 and 1930, the domestic arts, as well as the daily life of the American family, began to reflect rapid advances in technology, aesthetics, and attitudes about American culture. Pictorial, literary, musical, and decorative arts from this era all reveal a shift from clutter to clarity and from profusion to restraint as modern conveniences, ranging from pre-stamped needlework patterns to central heat, were introduced into the domestic environment. However, the household arts were also affected by an enduring strain of conservatism reflected in the popularity of historically inspired furnishing styles. In this collection of essays, ten experts in turn-of-the-century popular and material culture examine how the struggle between modernity and tradition was reflected in various facets of the household aesthetic. Their findings touch on sub-themes of gender, generation, and class to provide a fascinating commentary on what middle-class Americans were prepared to discard in the name of modernity and what they stubbornly retained for the sake of ideology. Through an examination of material culture and prescriptive literature from this period, the essayists also demonstrate how changes in artistic expression affected the psychological, social, and cultural lives of everyday Americans. This book joins a growing list of titles dedicated to analyzing and interpreting the cultural dimensions of past domestic life. Its essays shed new light on house history by tracking the transformation of a significant element of home life - its expressions of art.
Book Synopsis Museum Handbook by : United States. National Park Service
Download or read book Museum Handbook written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Consumers' Imperium by : Kristin L. Hoganson
Download or read book Consumers' Imperium written by Kristin L. Hoganson and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Histories of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era tend to characterize the United States as an expansionist nation bent on Americanizing the world without being transformed itself. In Consumers' Imperium, Kristin Hoganson reveals the other half of the story, demonstrating that the years between the Civil War and World War I were marked by heightened consumption of imports and strenuous efforts to appear cosmopolitan. Hoganson finds evidence of international connections in quintessentially domestic places--American households. She shows that well-to-do white women in this era expressed intense interest in other cultures through imported household objects, fashion, cooking, entertaining, armchair travel clubs, and the immigrant gifts movement. From curtains to clothing, from around-the-world parties to arts and crafts of the homelands exhibits, Hoganson presents a new perspective on the United States in the world by shifting attention from exports to imports, from production to consumption, and from men to women. She makes it clear that globalization did not just happen beyond America's shores, as a result of American military might and industrial power, but that it happened at home, thanks to imports, immigrants, geographical knowledge, and consumer preferences. Here is an international history that begins at home.
