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Author : JEAN (b. 1909) LIPMAN
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)
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:
Author : Jean Lipman
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
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Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
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.
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Publisher : Hudson River Museum
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Total Pages : 20 pages
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Author : James Ayres
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1782977457
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (829 download)
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.
Author : Lance Mayer
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606060775
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
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.
Author : Susan Branson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501760939
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
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.
Author : Jennifer L. Roberts
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520251849
Total Pages : 238 pages
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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."
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Total Pages : 56 pages
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Download or read book American Folk Art from the Fried Collection written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger W. Moss
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471144113
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Paint in America written by Roger W. Moss and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1994 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive volume on how paint has been used in the U.S. in the last 250 years. Eminent contributors cover the history of this medium in American buildings from the 17th century to the end of the 19th century. Contains a survey of practices and materials in England, cutting-edge techniques used by today's researchers in examining historic paints, fascinating case studies and an important chart of early American paint colors. Explains how to identify pigments and media, how to prepare surfaces for application and apply paint. Includes the chemical properties of paint with a table of paint components, plus a glossary and bibliography.
Author : Gerard C. Wertkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135956146
Total Pages : 1583 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
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 1583 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.
Author : Cynthia V. A. Schaffner
Publisher : Clarkson Potter Publishers
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Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Painted Furniture 1790-1880 written by Cynthia V. A. Schaffner and published by Clarkson Potter Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive guide to the 18th- and 19th-century painted furniture that has dominated recent antiques shows. The authors consider the elegant painted furniture from major East Coast style centers. An impressive array of works by prominent craftsmen are highlighted. 350 full-color photos. Major reviews.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Scientific American written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monthly magazine devoted to topics of general scientific interest.
Author : Caroline Sloat
Publisher : University of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Meet Your Neighbors written by Caroline Sloat and published by University of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 572 pages
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Download or read book New York Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald R. Kennon
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Pantheon written by Donald R. Kennon and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the ancient Roman Pantheon, the U.S. Capitol was designed by its political and aesthetic arbiters to memorialize the virtues, events, and persons most representative of the nation's ideals--an attempt to raise a particular version of the nation's founding to the level of myth. American Pantheon examines the influences upon not only those virtues and persons selected for inclusion in the American pantheon, but also those excluded. Two chapters address the exclusion of slavery and African Americans from the art in the Capitol, a silence made all the more deafening by the major contributions of slaves and free black workers to the construction of the building. Two other authors consider the subject of women emerging as artists, subjects, patrons, and proponents of art in the Capitol, a development that began to emerge only in the second half of the nineteenth century. The Rotunda, the Capitol's principal ceremonial space, was designed in part as an art museum of American history--at least the authorized version of it. It is explored in several of the essays, including discussions of the influence of the early-nineteenth-century Italian sculptors who provided the first sculptural reliefs for the room and the contributions of the mid-nineteenth-century Italian American artist Constantino Brumidi, to the mix of allegory, mythology, and history that permeates the space and indeed the Capitol itself.
Author : George Herbert Meyer
Publisher : Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company
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Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Folk Artists Biographical Index written by George Herbert Meyer and published by Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company. This book was released on 1987 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David D. Hall
Publisher : Hanover, NH : University Press of New England
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
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Download or read book New England written by David D. Hall and published by Hanover, NH : University Press of New England. This book was released on 1989 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
