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Book A Fabulous Dollhouse of the Twenties

Download or read book A Fabulous Dollhouse of the Twenties written by John Noble and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Fabulous Dollhouse of the Twentieth

Download or read book A Fabulous Dollhouse of the Twentieth written by John Noble and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Collectible Dolls and Accessories of the Twenties and Thirties from Sears  Roebuck and Co  Catalogs

Download or read book Collectible Dolls and Accessories of the Twenties and Thirties from Sears Roebuck and Co Catalogs written by Margaret Adams and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of clear illustrations and detailed descriptions of now-antique dolls, teddy bears, dollhouses, furniture, more.

Book The Miniatures Catalog

Download or read book The Miniatures Catalog written by Boynton & Associates and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Florine Stettheimer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Brown
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2017-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300221983
  • Pages : 169 pages

Download or read book Florine Stettheimer written by Stephen Brown and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new look at the art of one of the most charming and idiosyncratic personalities of early 20th-century New York Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944) was a New York original: a society lady who hosted an avant-garde salon in her Manhattan home, a bohemian and a flapper, a poet, a theater designer, and above all an influential painter with a sharp satirical wit. Stettheimer collaborated with Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson, befriended (and took French lessons from) Marcel Duchamp, and was a member of Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe's artistic and intellectual circle. Beautifully illustrated with 150 color images, including the majority of the artist's extant paintings, as well as drawings, theater designs, and ephemera, this volume also highlights Stettheimer's poetry and gives her a long overdue critical reassessment. The essays published here--as well as a roundtable discussion by seven leading contemporary female artists--overturn the traditional perception of Stettheimer as an artist of mere novelties. Her work is linked not only to American modernism and the New York bohemian scene before World War II but also to a range of art practices active today. Flamboyant and epicurean, she was an astute documenter of New York and parodist of her social milieu; her highly decorative scenes borrowed from Surrealism and contributed to the beginnings of a feminist aesthetic.

Book The Stettheimer Dollhouse

Download or read book The Stettheimer Dollhouse written by Sheila W. Clark and published by Pomegranate Communications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infusing her sensibility into every detail—from the Limoges vases in the chintz bedroom to the crystal-trimmed candelabra in the salon—Carrie Walter Stettheimer (American, 1869–1944) wove together the fashion and style of New York's high society in the early twentieth century to create one of the finest dollhouses in the world. Stettheimer worked on the twelve-room dollhouse for nearly two decades, creating many of the furnishings and decorations by hand. Styles of decoration vary from room to room, yet the wallpapers, furniture, and fixtures are all characteristic of the period following World War I. The result is a magnificent work of art, now in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York.What may be the most astounding aspect of the Stettheimer Dollhouse is its one-of-a-kind art gallery, featuring miniature works from renowned avant-garde artists of the 1920s. Along with her mother and two sisters—Florine, a painter whose works are in many major museum collections, and Ettie, a writer—Stettheimer hosted grand soirées attended by contemporary artists, including Alexander Archipenko, Marcel Duchamp, and Gaston Lachaise, who presented her with miniature works for her dollhouse.The Stettheimer Dollhouse showcases all the works created especially for the dollhouse, including Duchamp's three-inch version of Nude Descending a Staircase. Each artist in the collection is profiled, while descriptions and color photographs of each room in the dollhouse offer an intimate tour of this delightful masterpiece.

Book Women in Dada

    Book Details:
  • Author : Naomi Sawelson-Gorse
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780262692601
  • Pages : 720 pages

Download or read book Women in Dada written by Naomi Sawelson-Gorse and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: his book is the first to make the case that women's changing role in European and American society was critical to Dada.

Book The Art of the Miniature

Download or read book The Art of the Miniature written by Jane Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone who adores the art of creating small things, The Art of theiniature provides a treasure trove of practical techniques and ingeniouspproaches. In this captivating guide, noted artist Jane Freeman showseaders, step by step, how to use modified kit components and found andandmade objects to create intensely detailed miniature constructions.eaders will learn the entire process of creating a miniature room, structure,r landscape, from selecting a container to choosing the subject, approach,nd style. Page after page of wonderful, full-color examples displayainstakingly accurate "portraits" of interiors and buildings (like aollywood studio and a trendy New York City retail store), imaginary operaets (Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute) and even the studios of famous artists.he book also features the inspirational work of several other leadinginiatures artists, including Susan Leopold, David Levinthal, Victoria andichard MacKenzie-Childs, and Alan Wolfion.

Book America s Doll House

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  • Author : William L. Bird
  • Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
  • Release : 2010-10-06
  • ISBN : 9781568989747
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book America s Doll House written by William L. Bird and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Star-Spangled Banner flag to Dorothy's Ruby Slippers, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History is home to some fascinating objects. In fact, one of the most fascinating of these, and one of the most popular, is itself a home. On the museum's third floor sits a five-story dollhouse donated to the museum by Faith Bradford, a Washington D.C. librarian, who spent more than a half-century accumulating and constructing the 1,354 miniatures that fill its 23 intricately detailed rooms. When Bradford donated them to the museum in 1951, she wrote a lengthy manuscript describing the lives of its residents: Mr. and Mrs. Peter Doll and their ten children, two visiting grandparents, twenty pets, and household staff. Bradford cataloged the Dolls' tastes, habits, and preferences in neatly typed household inventories, which she then bound, along with photographs and fabric samples, in a scrapbook. She even sent museum curators holiday cards written by the Dolls. In America's Doll House, Smithsonian Institution curator William L. Bird, Jr. weaves this visual material and back-story into the rich tapestry of Faith Bradford's miniature world. Featuring vibrant photography that brings every narrative detail to life, America's Doll House is both an incisive portrait of a sentimental pastime and a celebration of Bradford's remarkable and painstaking accomplishment.

Book The Miniatures Catalog

Download or read book The Miniatures Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dollhouse

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  • Author : Kyla Faye
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-11-22
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Dollhouse written by Kyla Faye and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All I've ever wanted is freedom... Freedom to do what I want. Freedom to be who I want. I've been controlled since the day I was born, forced to put on a smile and pretend my life was perfect. From the outside looking in, it was. Little did anyone know, I'd been living in hell. Broken, beaten, and scared, I escaped my tormentor and ran to the one place I vowed never to return. I've been hiding in the city that holds all my secrets and was beginning to make a life for myself. Until they come for me. Eli, King, and Rowen. They're vicious, brutal, ruthless, and used to getting whatever they want, when they want it. Only this time, there's something standing in their way. They want me out of their city and will stop at nothing to get what they want. They say the ultimate cost of freedom is death... I should've been careful what I wished for. NOTE: Dollhouse is a full-length reverse harem dark romance. Reader discretion is advised.

Book Prepare for Saints

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  • Author : Steven Watson
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2012-09-05
  • ISBN : 0307822737
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book Prepare for Saints written by Steven Watson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the oddest and most influential collaboration in the history of American modernism was hatched in 1926, when a young Virgil Thomson knocked on Gertrude Stein's door in Paris. Eight years later, their opera Four Saints in Three Acts became a sensation--the longest-running opera in Broadway history to date and the most widely reported cultural event of its time. Four Saints was proclaimed the birth of a new art form, a cellophane fantasy, "cubism on stage." It swept the public imagination, inspiring new art and new language, and defied every convention of what an opera should be. Everything about it was revolution-ary: Stein's abstract text and Thomson's homespun music, the all-black cast, the costumes, and the com-bustible sets. Moving from the Wadsworth Atheneum to Broadway, Four Saints was the first popular modernist production. It brought modernism, with all its flamboyant outrage against convention, into the mainstream. This is the story of how that opera came to be. It involves artists, writers, musicians, salon hostesses, and an underwear manufacturer with an appetite for publicity. The opera's success depended on a handful of Harvard-trained men who shaped America's first museums of modern art. The elaborately intertwined lives of the collaborators provide a window onto the pioneering generation that defined modern taste in America in the 1920s and 1930s. A brilliant cultural historian with a talent for bringing the past to life, Steven Watson spent ten years researching and writing this book, interviewing many of the collaborators and performers. Prepare for Saints is the first book to describe this pivotal moment in American cultural history. It does so with a spirit and irreverence worthy of its subject. NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.

Book The Dollhouse Magic

Download or read book The Dollhouse Magic written by Yona Zeldis McDonough and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Depression, intrigued by the beautiful dollhouse they see in a house window, sisters Lila and Jane befriend its elderly owner and ultimately have a very different Christmas.

Book Most Wonderful Dollhouse Book

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  • Author : Millie Hines
  • Publisher : Random House Value Pub
  • Release : 1981-08-01
  • ISBN : 9780517363232
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Most Wonderful Dollhouse Book written by Millie Hines and published by Random House Value Pub. This book was released on 1981-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Florine Stettheimer

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  • Author : Barbara Bloemink
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022-01-05
  • ISBN : 9783777438344
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Florine Stettheimer written by Barbara Bloemink and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-05 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cats in the Doll Shop

Download or read book The Cats in the Doll Shop written by Yona Zeldis McDonough and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Anna spots a cat in the yard behind her parents' doll shop, she is excited. Then she realizes the cat is about to have kittens--even better! And Anna has something else to look forward to: her cousin Tania is coming from Russia to stay with Anna's family. Anna already has two sisters, but she and Tania are the exact same age--eleven--and she imagines they will get along perfectly. But Tania doesn't respond to Anna's friendly overtures, and her sisters don't seem to like Tania at all. Luckily, Anna finds a creative way to use her love of dolls and cats to bring everyone together.

Book The Dollhouse

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fiona Davis
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2016-08-23
  • ISBN : 1101985003
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book The Dollhouse written by Fiona Davis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the lush world of 1950s New York City, where a generation of aspiring models, secretaries, and editors live side by side in the glamorous Barbizon Hotel for Women while attempting to claw their way to fairy-tale success in this debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue. “Rich both in twists and period detail, this tale of big-city ambition is impossible to put down.”—People When she arrives at the famed Barbizon Hotel in 1952, secretarial school enrollment in hand, Darby McLaughlin is everything her modeling agency hall mates aren't: plain, self-conscious, homesick, and utterly convinced she doesn't belong—a notion the models do nothing to disabuse. Yet when Darby befriends Esme, a Barbizon maid, she's introduced to an entirely new side of New York City: seedy downtown jazz clubs where the music is as addictive as the heroin that's used there, the startling sounds of bebop, and even the possibility of romance. Over half a century later, the Barbizon's gone condo and most of its long-ago guests are forgotten. But rumors of Darby's involvement in a deadly skirmish with a hotel maid back in 1952 haunt the halls of the building as surely as the melancholy music that floats from the elderly woman's rent-controlled apartment. It's a combination too intoxicating for journalist Rose Lewin, Darby's upstairs neighbor, to resist—not to mention the perfect distraction from her own imploding personal life. Yet as Rose's obsession deepens, the ethics of her investigation become increasingly murky, and neither woman will remain unchanged when the shocking truth is finally revealed.