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Author : Marquis Who's Who, Inc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Who was who in American History, Arts and Letters written by Marquis Who's Who, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Liza Kirwin
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568985237
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (852 download)
Download or read book More Than Words written by Liza Kirwin and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Words speak volumes, but, as every letter writer knows, there are times when they simply won't do. When the author happens to be a visual artist, he has an added advantage - one that transforms ordinary stationery into a canvas. This book chronicles those occasions when words were not enough, and some of America's most revered artists turned their talents to illustrating their most intimate thoughts and feelings. Writing to wives, lovers, friends, patrons, clients, and confidants, premiere artists such as Frederick Edwin Church, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, Rockwell Kent, Lyonel Feininger, John Sloan, Alfred Frueh, Man Ray, Alexander Calder, Dorothea Tanning, Gio Ponti, Andy Warhol, and Frida Kahlo picture the world around them in charming vignettes, caricatures, portraits, and landscapes. Together, the words and images of these autobiographical works of art, created for private consumption, reveal the joys and successes, loves and longings, triumphs and frustrations of their distinguished authors' personal lives and professional careers."--Jacket.
Author : Jackson Pollock
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745651550
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book American Letters written by Jackson Pollock and published by Polity. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents letters written by the American painter and his brothers and parents from the late 1920s to the late 1940s.
Author : Anne Monahan
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300243308
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Horace Pippin, American Modern written by Anne Monahan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This nuanced reassessment transforms our understanding of Horace Pippin, casting the artist and his celebrated paintings as more complex than has previously been recognized
Author : Christopher K. Ho
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736507902
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts written by Christopher K. Ho and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of seventy-three letters written in 2020 captures an unprecedented moment in politics and society through the experiences of Asian-American artists, curators, educators, art historians, editors, writers, and designers. The form of the letter offers readers intimate insights into the complexities of Asian American experiences, moving beyond the model-minority myth. Chronicling everyday lives, dreams, rage, family histories, and cultural politics, these letters ignite new ways of being, and modes of creating, at a moment of racial reckoning.
Author : Frances Stonor Saunders
Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 1595589147
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)
Download or read book The Cultural Cold War written by Frances Stonor Saunders and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy’s most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA—whether they knew it or not. Called "the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA’s] activities between 1947 and 1967" by the New York Times, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIA’s undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at home, drawing together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA’s astonishing campaign to deploy the likes of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock as weapons in the Cold War. Translated into ten languages, this classic work—now with a new preface by the author—is "a real contribution to popular understanding of the postwar period" (The Wall Street Journal), and its story of covert cultural efforts to win hearts and minds continues to be relevant today.
Author : Delia Gaze
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781884964213
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (642 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Women Artists: Introductory surveys ; Artists, A-I written by Delia Gaze and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588393577
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book American Portrait Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2010 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul F. Boller
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 0875655572
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (756 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of an Obscure Professor written by Paul F. Boller and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the heyday of McCarthyism, the Chicago Tribune, offended by something he had written, contemptuously dismissed Paul Boller as "an obscure professor" - he was then teaching at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Some forty-five years later, reflecting on the incident, Boller wrote an essay on what it was like to be an obscure professor at one of America's less publicized campuses in a conservative community during the late 1950s and early 1960s. That essay became the foundation for this collection of autobiographical selections reflecting the interests and pursuits of a man who gained national recognition, both inside the academic community and beyond, but still values his obscurity. Whether it is a study of the much-maligned Calvin Coolidge or an account of his Navy service as a translator of Japanese during World War II, Boller brings to his writing a fresh approach and a lively and wry wit.
Author : Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674002760
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Harvard Guide to African-American History written by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiles information and interpretations on the past 500 years of African American history, containing essays on historical research aids, bibliographies, resources for womens' issues, and an accompanying CD-ROM providing bibliographical entries.
Author : John Singleton Copley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Letters & Papers of John Singleton Copley and Henry Pelham, 1739-1776 written by John Singleton Copley and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis Auchincloss
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231102483
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (24 download)
Download or read book A Century of Arts & Letters written by Louis Auchincloss and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its ranks limited to 250 members, the American Academy of Arts and Letters is counted among the foremost honors an American in the arts can receive. For this tribute to the Academy, eleven of its current members provide illuminating insights into those artists whom members have held in high esteem--and those they have not. 85 photos.
Author : Blaine T Browne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317464664
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Modern American Lives: Individuals and Issues in American History Since 1945 written by Blaine T Browne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The individuals presented in these narrative biographies significantly, and sometimes decisively, impacted contemporary American life in a wide range of areas, including national politics, foreign policy, social and political activism, popular and literary culture, sports, and business. The combined biographical/thematic approach is designed to serve two purposes: to present more substantive biographical information, and to offer a fuller examination of key events and issues. The book is an ideal supplement for undergraduate courses on The United States Since 1945, as well as for courses on Modern America and 20th Century America.
Author : David E. Whisnant
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807841433
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (414 download)
Download or read book All That Is Native and Fine written by David E. Whisnant and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1995-08-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the American imagination, the word Appalachia designates more than a geographical region. It evokes fiddle tunes, patchwork quilts, split-rail fences, and all the other artifacts that decorate a cherished romantic region of the American mind. Da
Author : Charles Van Doren
Publisher : Merriam-Webster
ISBN 13 : 9780877790815
Total Pages : 1530 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Webster's Guide to American History written by Charles Van Doren and published by Merriam-Webster. This book was released on 1971 with total page 1530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack De Bellis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313007209
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The John Updike Encyclopedia written by Jack De Bellis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-09-30 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Updike is one of the most seminal American writers of the 20th century and one of the most prolific as well. In addition to his best-selling novels, he has written numerous poems, short stories, reviews, and essays. His writing consistently reveals stylistic brilliance, and through his engagement with America's moral and spiritual problems, his works chronicle America's hopes and dreams, failures and disappointments. Though he is an enormously popular writer, the complexity and elegance of his works have elicited growing scholarly attention. Through several hundred alphabetically arranged entries, this book provides both casual and serious readers an exceptional guide to his life and writings. Whether the reader is seeking a novel summary, an authoritative analysis of subjects, elucidation of an allusion, or a point about Updike's life or manner of composition, the encyclopedia is indispensable. A chronology summarizes the major events in Updike's career, while an introductory essay examines his progress as a writer, from his crafted light verse and informed reviews to his innovative novels and stories. The entries that follow summarize Updike's books, describe all major characters, explain allusions, identify major images and symbols, analyze principal subjects, discuss his life and career, and draw on the most significant scholarship. Entries include bibliographies, and the volume closes with a list of works for further reading.
Author : George H. Callcott
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421431041
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book History in the United States, 1800-1860 written by George H. Callcott and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1970. Professor Callcott's analysis of the rise of historical consciousness in the United States from 1800 to 1860 offers a new dimension to American historiography. Other books have provided insight into the works of Bancroft, Parkman, and others, but Callcott goes beyond to explain the meaning of the past itself rather than the contributions of particular historians. As the anatomy of an idea, this is an important contribution to American intellectual history; and as a study of humans' need for the past and their use of it, it is an important contribution to American social history. The author begins by analyzing the European and Romantic background for American historical thought. He then explores the rise of historical themes in literature, education, the arts, and scholarship. By describing the type of historical subject matter, the methods of writing history, the interpretive themes historians used, and the standards by which critics judged history, Callcott offers a new understanding of the social and personal meaning that history had for Americans at the time. The American people were especially convinced of the utility of history—its social use in supporting accepted values, its personal utility in extending human experience, and its philosophical value in pointing people toward ultimate reality. The idea of history possessed a remarkable coherence that reflected the preoccupations and aspirations of the young nation. Callcott also demonstrates, however, that when basic historical assumptions were challenged by controversy, the entire edifice collapsed.
