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Rufus Porter Rediscovered

Author : Jean Lipman
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rufus Porter Rediscovered written by Jean Lipman and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1980 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Rufus Porter] pioneered and made outstanding contriubtions in the field of American art, and in science and journalism as well... Porter worked steadily at the trade of itinerant artist from 1815 to around 1840... Porter had established a mobile one-man factory for original portraiture and interior decoration... [Following 1825] Porter devoted himself chiefly to mural painting. In the 1840s he published and edited the New York Mehanic, kAmerican Mechanic and Scientific American. The latter, which he founded in 1845, was one of teh most important journals of its time, as it is today"--from p. 3, 4, 7.

RUFUS PORTER REDISCOVERED: ARTIST INVENTOR JOURNALIST 1792-1884

Author : JEAN (b. 1909) LIPMAN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book RUFUS PORTER REDISCOVERED: ARTIST INVENTOR JOURNALIST 1792-1884 written by JEAN (b. 1909) LIPMAN and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Folk Art Murals of the Rufus Porter School

Author : Linda Carter Lefko
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780764337253
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Folk Art Murals of the Rufus Porter School written by Linda Carter Lefko and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the long awaited update of research on the Rufus Porter Landscape Mural School, greatly expanding the knowledge and understanding of this uniquely American folk art field of the 1820s to 1840s. The text provides detailed documentation never seen before in print. The book takes the reader on a virtual tour of Porter School murals in the New England states, presenting and analyzing more than 400 colorful images, which will provide inspiration for historians, researchers, designers, and painters alike. It offers evidence regarding the attribution of these mostly unsigned works, and encourages readers to apply that evidence in reaching their own conclusions. In addition, there is a section concerning the preservation of historic murals and various challenges and threats to such preservation. Finally, the book offers a "how-to" section that interprets Porter's original published mural painting instructions in terms of modern equipment, materials, and supplies.

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Publisher : Hudson River Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book written by and published by Hudson River Museum. This book was released on with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Wall Stenciling, 1790-1840

Author : Ann Eckert Brown
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584651949
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (519 download)

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Book Synopsis American Wall Stenciling, 1790-1840 by : Ann Eckert Brown

Download or read book American Wall Stenciling, 1790-1840 written by Ann Eckert Brown and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generously illustrated survey of an important post-revolutionary American decorative art form.

Scientific Americans

Author : Susan Branson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501760939
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Scientific Americans written by Susan Branson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Scientific Americans, Susan Branson explores the place of science and technology in American efforts to achieve cultural independence from Europe and America's nation building in the early republic and antebellum eras. This engaging tour of scientific education and practices among ordinary citizens charts the development of nationalism and national identity alongside roads, rails, and machines. Scientific Americans shows how informal scientific education provided by almanacs, public lectures, and demonstrations, along with the financial encouragement of early scientific societies, generated an enthusiasm for the application of science and technology to civic, commercial, and domestic improvements. Not only that: Americans were excited, awed, and intrigued with the practicality of inventions. Bringing together scientific research and popular wonder, Branson charts how everything from mechanical clocks to steam engines informed the creation and expansion of the American nation. From the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations to the fate of the Amistad captives, Scientific Americans shows how the promotion and celebration of discoveries, inventions, and technologies articulated Americans' earliest ambitions, as well as prejudices, throughout the first American century.

Nineteenth-century American Art

Author : Barbara S. Groseclose
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192842251
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-century American Art written by Barbara S. Groseclose and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many well-known artists, including Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer, and lesser-known artists like Harriet Hosmer are closely examined, as is the art world of the time. In addition to discussing the free movement of American visual culture between 'high' and 'low', Barbara Groseclose interweaves nineteenth-century art criticism with current art history, to create a fascinating insight into the changing interpretations of American art of this period."--BOOK JACKET.

It Happened on the Oregon Trail

Author : Tricia Martineau Wagner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493011227
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis It Happened on the Oregon Trail by : Tricia Martineau Wagner

Download or read book It Happened on the Oregon Trail written by Tricia Martineau Wagner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the events that took place along the Oregon Trail are well known--the perils the Applegate family faced as they rafted down the raging Columbia River, the plight of the Donner Party as they found themselves snowbound and starving at Truckee Lake. But do you know the whole story? It Happened on the Oregon Trail reveals the stories of these well-known events as well as many lesser-known happenings, providing insights about the adventurous emigrants who, beginning in the 1840s, headed west in covered wagons in search of a better life. The hardships and the joys of the 2000-mile journey across plains, mountains, and deserts come alive in this entertaining and informative book.

Art, Artisans and Apprentices

Author : James Ayres
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1782977457
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book Art, Artisans and Apprentices written by James Ayres and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the foundation of academies of art in London in 1758 and Philadelphia in 1805, most individuals who were to emerge as artists trained in workshops of varying degrees of relevance. Easel painters began their careers apprenticed to carriage, house, sign or ship painters, whilst a few were placed with those who made pictures. Sculptors emerged from a training as ornamental plasterers or carvers. Of the many other trades in a position to offer an appropriate background were ‘limning’, staining, engraving, surveying, chasing and die-sinking. In addition, plumbers gained the right to use oil painting and, for plasterers, the application of distemper was an extension of their trade. Central to the theme of this book is the notion that, for those who were to become either painters or sculptor, a training in a trade met their practical needs. This ‘training’ was of an altogether different nature to an ‘education’ in an art school. In the past, prospective artists were offered, by means of apprenticeships, an empirical rather than a theoretical understanding of their ultimate vocation. James Ayres provides a lively account of the inter-relationship between art and trade in the late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries, in both Britain and North America. He demonstrates with numerous, illustrated examples, the many cross-overs in the ‘art and mystery’ of artistic training, and, to modern eyes, the sometimes incongruous relationships between the various trades that contributed to the blossoming of many artistic careers, including some of the most illustrious names of the ‘long’ eighteenth century.

Bridgton

Author : Ned Allen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738563206
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Bridgton written by Ned Allen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1768, Jacob Kimball moved to the shores of Long Lake in North Bridgton, building a store and providing boat service from Standish, at the southern end of Sebago Lake. Jacob Stevens soon followed, building a sawmill and gristmill on what became Stevens Brook in the center village. Ten power sites on this short brook ran lumber, textile, and other mills, as well as a tannery. Bridgton became the area's commercial center as retail stores and businesses sprang up to support the many mill workers and farm families. The first train on the narrow-gauge Bridgton and Saco River Railroad chugged into town in January 1883. Tourists and artists soon discovered Bridgton, and today the town remains a diverse mix of creative, hardworking people.

Transporting Visions

Author : Jennifer L. Roberts
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520251849
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Transporting Visions written by Jennifer L. Roberts and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-01-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation."

The Intellectual Property of Nations

Author : Laura R. Ford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108187722
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Intellectual Property of Nations written by Laura R. Ford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on macro-historical sociological theories, this book traces the development of intellectual property as a new type of legal property in the modern nation-state system. In its current form, intellectual property is considered part of an infrastructure of state power that incentivizes innovation, creativity, and scientific development, all engines of economic growth. To show how this infrastructure of power emerged, Laura Ford follows macro-historical social theorists, including Michael Mann and Max Weber, back to antiquity, revealing that legal instruments very similar to modern intellectual property have existed for a long time and have also been deployed for similar purposes. Using comparative and historical evidence, this groundbreaking work reflects on the role of intellectual property in our contemporary political communities and societies; on the close relationship between law and religion; and on the extent to which law's obliging force depends on ancient, written traditions.

The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation

Author : Steven Hahn
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469621460
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation written by Steven Hahn and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents one of the first efforts to harvest the rapidly emerging scholarship in the field of American rural history. Building on the insights and methodologies that social historians have directed toward urban life, the contributors explore the past as it unfolded in the rural settings in which most Americans have lived during most of American history. The essays cover a broad range of topics: the character and consequences of manufacturing and consumerism in the antebellum countryside of the Northeast; the transition from slavery to freedom in Southern plantation and nonplantation regions; the dynamics of community-building and inheritance among Midwestern native and immigrant farmers; the panorama of rural labor systems in the Far West; and the experience of settled farming communities in periods of slowed economic growth. The central theme is the complex and often conflicting development of commercial and industrial capitalism in the American countryside. Together the essays place rural societies within the context of America's "Great Transformation."

Historic Preservation

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Historic Preservation written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Colonial Homes

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonial Homes written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic American style.

American Painters on Technique

Author : Lance Mayer
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606060775
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book American Painters on Technique written by Lance Mayer and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of an important but anonymous part of the history of American art: the materials and techniques used by American painters. Based on research including artists' recipe books, letters, journals, and painting manuals, it includes topics such as the quest for the 'secrets' of the Old Masters; the application of 'toning' layers; and more.

Little by Little

Author : Nina Fletcher Little
Publisher : Dutton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Little by Little written by Nina Fletcher Little and published by Dutton. This book was released on 1984 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring account of the superb collection of New England country arts of the 17th through the 19th centuries assembled "little by little" over six decades by Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little. This is the story of an exemplary collection and also of the joys, pitfalls, and philosophy of collecting. 372 illustrations, 147 in color. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.