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Book Synopsis Treasures of American Museums by : Charles Mathes
Download or read book Treasures of American Museums written by Charles Mathes and published by World Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts the possessions of America's most celebrated art, history, and science museums, including the Smithsonian, the Metropolitan, Winterthur, and seventy-seven others
Book Synopsis Great Art Treasures in American Museums by :
Download or read book Great Art Treasures in American Museums written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis America's Ancient Treasures by : Franklin Folsom
Download or read book America's Ancient Treasures written by Franklin Folsom and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition of a guide to visiting US and Canadian archaeological sites and museums of prehistoric Indian life.
Book Synopsis Great Art Treasures in America's Smaller Museums by : Harold Haydon
Download or read book Great Art Treasures in America's Smaller Museums written by Harold Haydon and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial collection of 220 masterpieces.
Book Synopsis Keeping Their Marbles by : Tiffany Jenkins
Download or read book Keeping Their Marbles written by Tiffany Jenkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past two centuries and more, the West has acquired the treasures of antiquity to fill its museums, so that visitors to the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris and the Metropolitan in New York - to name but a few - can wonder at the ingenuity of humanity throughout the ages. However, in the opinion of most people, many of these items are looted property and should be returned immediately. In 'Keeping Their Marbles', Tiffany Jenkins tells the intriguing and sometimes bloody story of how the West came to acquire these treasures. Originally published: 2016.
Book Synopsis The Gilded Age by : National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
Download or read book The Gilded Age written by National Museum of American Art (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume features artists who brought a new sophistication and elegancento American art in the three decades before World War I. Wealthyndustrialists eager to acquire culture began to patronize native artists whoad achieved international recognition. John Singer Sargent, Irving Wiles andecilia Beaux created portraits of these new patrons, while John La Farge andugustus Saint-Gaudens made luxurious adornments for their homes. One groupf painters - including Louis Comfort Tiffany, Frederick Arthur Bridgman,enry Ossawa Tanner and Charles Sprague Pearce - responded especially to theascnation with exotic Middle Eastern, Egyptian or "Oriental" cultures thatharacterized this age of international imperialism. The educated and refinedspects of Gilded Age culture are expressed here in Renaissance-inspiredaintings by Abbott Thayer and Mary Cassatt. Romantic literary works byisionary Albert Pinkham Ryder symbolize the idealized strivings of thiseneration, while the rugged masculine landscapes of Winslow Homer emblemizehe struggle and conflict that marked this period of contending social and
Book Synopsis Treasures of the Smithsonian by : Edwards Park
Download or read book Treasures of the Smithsonian written by Edwards Park and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than four hundred photographs and reproductions, accompanied by an entertaining text, provide an intriguing glimpse of the richly diverse treasures of the Smithsonian, from art masterpieces to historical memorabilia to technological innovations.
Book Synopsis Great Art Treasures in America's Smaller Museums by : Country Beautiful
Download or read book Great Art Treasures in America's Smaller Museums written by Country Beautiful and published by . This book was released on with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treasures in America written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Exploring American Girlhood through 50 Historic Treasures by : Ashley E. Remer
Download or read book Exploring American Girlhood through 50 Historic Treasures written by Ashley E. Remer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are the girls that helped build America? Conventional history books shed little light on the influence and impact of girls’ contributions to society and culture. This oversight is challenged by Girl Museum and their team, who give voices to the most neglected, yet profoundly impactful, historical narratives of American history: young girls. Exploring American Girls’ History through 50 Historic Treasures showcases girls and their experiences through the lens of place and material culture. Discover how the objects and sites that girls left behind tell stories about America that you have never heard before. Readers will journey from the first peoples who called the continent home, to 21st century struggles for civil rights, becoming immersed in stories that show how the local impacts the global and vice versa, as told by the girls who built America. Their stories, dreams, struggles, and triumphs are the centerpiece of the nation’s story as never before, helping to define both the struggle and meaning of being “American.” This full-color book is a must-read for those who yearn for more balanced representation in historic narratives, as well as an inspiration to young people, showing them that everyone makes history. It includes color photographs of all the treasured objects explored.
Book Synopsis The Smithsonian by : Webster Prentiss True
Download or read book The Smithsonian written by Webster Prentiss True and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the Smithsonian Institution has grown to be over a hundred years old, no full length account of its various collections and fascinating activities had ever been written before Mr. True put them down here in 1950. Founded through a generous bequest by a lonely Englishman who had never visited this country, The Smithsonian, often identified with its headquarters in the quaint Norman castle on the Mall in Washington D.C., also includes the United States National Museum—now called the National Museum of Natural History—with its collection of natural history and American historical treasures, the National Gallery of Art, with its outstanding collection of paintings, prints and sculpture, the Freer Gallery of Art, the National Air Museum—now called the National Air and Space Museum. Mr. True sets forth a biography that covers the treasures of the Smithsonian in the Fifties, while also illuminating the organization of the Smithsonian museums in the Fifties; some things have remained remarkably unchanged over the intervening years, while others are drastically different. Mr. True holds up the Smithsonian Institute as the national treasure it is, one whose value is incalculable.
Book Synopsis Smithsonian Treasures of American History by : Kathleen Kendrick
Download or read book Smithsonian Treasures of American History written by Kathleen Kendrick and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Museum of American History—our country's largest history museum and one of the Smithsonian's most visited—preserves three million objects that capture the American story. From this vast collection, curators have handpicked more than 150 of the Museum's most valued and amazing treasures—from the hat Lincoln wore the night he was assassinated to Jacqueline Kennedy's inaugural gown and Dorothy's ruby slippers; from Alexander Graham Bell's telephone to Edison's light bulb and Albert Einstein's pipe; from an early box of Crayolas to one of the oldest pairs of Levi's. Four separate sections devoted to "Creativity and Innovation," "American Biography," "National Challenges," and "American Identity" reveal fascinating juxtapositions and startling connections on every page. This visual cornucopia of the material culture of American history reveals the familiar, the famous, and the unexpected at every turn.
Download or read book Treasure Palaces written by The Economist and published by The Economist. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exuberant celebration of the world's museums, great and small, revered writers like Ann Patchett, Julian Barnes, Ali Smith, and more tell us about their favorite museums, including the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York, the Mus'e Rodin in Paris, and the Prado in Madrid. These essays, collected from the pages of The Economist's Intelligent Life magazine, reveal the special hold that some museums have over us all. Acclaimed novelist William Boyd visits the Leopold Museum in Vienna -- a shrine to his favorite artist, Egon Schiele, whom Boyd first discovered on a postcard as a University student. In front of her favorite Rodins, Allison Pearson recalls a traumatic episode she suffered at the hands of a schoolteacher following a trip to the Mus'e in Paris. Neil Gaiman admires the fantastic world depicted in British outsider artist Richard Dadd's "The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke," a tiny painting that also decorated the foldout cover of a Queen album, housed in the Victorian room of Tate Britain's Pre-Raphaelite collection. Ann Patchett fondly revisits Harvard University's Museum of Natural History -- which she discovered at 19, while in the throes of summer romance with a biology student named Jack. Treasure Palaces is a treasure trove of wonders, a tribute to the diversity and power of the museums, the safe-keepers of our world's most extraordinary artifacts, and an intimate look into the deeply personal reveries we fall into when before great art.
Book Synopsis Treasures of the Smithsonian by : Edwards Park
Download or read book Treasures of the Smithsonian written by Edwards Park and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features the masterpieces of art, history, invention, and nature selected from the Smithsonian exhibition.
Book Synopsis Treasures of America and where to Find Them by :
Download or read book Treasures of America and where to Find Them written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated guide to our priceless heritage of art and architecture, furniture and the decorative arts, historic places, gardens, monuments and engineering marvels--the best loved treasures of our Nation.
Book Synopsis Hidden Treasures by : Harriet Baskas
Download or read book Hidden Treasures written by Harriet Baskas and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there are more than 15,000 museums in our country, visitors get to see only about five percent of any institution’s collections. Most museums simply don’t have room to display everything they’ve got. However, there are a wide variety of surprising and intriguing reasons that, for example, the Smithsonian Institution doesn’t display its collection of condoms, Florida's Lightner Museum locks up all but one of its shrunken heads, and a world-class stash of Japanese erotica (shunga) art was kept in the Honolulu Museum of Art's storage until only recently. Each item or collection included in this volume is described and placed in context with stories and interviews that explore the historical, social, cultural, political, environmental, or other circumstances that led to keeping that object or group of objects out of public view--the ultimate museum buff's voyeuristic experience. Color photographs of the artifacts are included.
Book Synopsis Arte Latino by : Tide-Mark Press, Limited
Download or read book Arte Latino written by Tide-Mark Press, Limited and published by . This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
