Download or read book America Seen Through the Work of Paul Sample written by Christina F. Larson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Starrett Sample (1896-1974) was an artist of the American Scene movement who worked primarily in Los Angeles, California, and Hanover, New Hampshire. He produced paintings that were revered in his lifetime but mostly forgotten in later art-historical scholarship. Sample's body of work offers considerable insight into the art of the 1930s and 1940s, since he was involved in nearly every facet of American art. He showed paintings in prominent exhibitions, connected with Regionalist and California School artists, created murals for businesses and New Deal programs, produced illustrations for leading magazines, taught at the University of Southern California, served at Dartmouth as one of the first artist-in-residents in the United States, and worked as an artist-correspondent for LIFE magazine during World War II. Sample's artwork is part of a larger discourse on masculinity. During the Great Depression and World War II, he continually represented scenes of male camaraderie, which seems to have had a powerful personal resonance for him. Sample was a gifted athlete who led an active life as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College but later had to abandon physical activity due to illness. Shortly after graduation he and his younger brother Donald were diagnosed with tuberculosis; they spent over four years together in a rest cure at a sanatorium, but Donald died of the disease. This emotional trauma influenced the way Sample would depict men in his American scenes. Unlike most other painters and muralists of the 1930s who portrayed American men as muscular, heroic figures, Sample represented them as downtrodden, frustrated, or idling. Sample's paintings offer a different view of masculinity-a definition that is rooted in listlessness and leisure rather than in physicality and work. Sample produced his most notable paintings during the 1930s when he lived in Southern California. This dissertation revisits those paintings and reconsiders their Regionalist context, demonstrating why it is important to see America and its art through the work of Paul Sample and why he is a significant figure to American art.
Download or read book Arts Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jackson Pollock Sketchbooks in the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Katharine Baetjer and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1997 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book For America written by Jeremiah William McCarthy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring paintings by American icons like Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, this book illustrates the ways American artists have viewed themselves, their peers, and their painted worlds over 200 years.
Download or read book A Companion to American Art written by John Davis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-01-23 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to American Art presents 35 newly-commissioned essays by leading scholars that explore the methodology, historiography, and current state of the field of American art history. Features contributions from a balance of established and emerging scholars, art and architectural historians, and other specialists Includes several paired essays to emphasize dialogue and debate between scholars on important contemporary issues in American art history Examines topics such as the methodological stakes in the writing of American art history, changing ideas about what constitutes “Americanness,” and the relationship of art to public culture Offers a fascinating portrait of the evolution and current state of the field of American art history and suggests future directions of scholarship
Download or read book On the Edge of America written by Paul J. Karlstrom and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The past quarter century has witnessed the emergence of a scholarly appreciation of American art in California. Yet assessments of the early modern (pre-1950) have been haphazard. Now in one bold volume, these scholars have remedied that deficiency. Thanks to the rich essays of this wonderful book, the art history of California--and the nation!--is graced with further light."--Dr. Kevin Starr, State Librarian of California "The authors of these essays illuminate a diverse and compelling history, one in which what happened at the geographic edges sheds new light on the European points of original. A lively and valuable contribution, not just to regional history, but to the making and transmission of modernism."--Whitney Chadwick, Professor of Art History, San Francisco State University "A welcome and overdue evaluation of the distinctive history of modernism in California, these essays sensitively explore a cultural terrain at once familiar and strange, surveying memorable achievements from painting to photography to architecture and film. The authors provocatively suggest the centrality of 'edges'--wherever they are found--to the national tale, and demonstrate it through significant developments on our western margin. A must for any serious student of American art and culture."--Charles C. Eldredge, The University of Kansas "An engrossing examination of modernist practices in California before the Abstract Expressionists and beatniks came to town. It includes art scenes peopled by Mexican muralists, European artists in exile, third-generation Californians, idealist photographers, and immigrant artisans."--Wanda Corn, Professor of Art History, Stanford University "These fascinating essays do much more than fill a major gap in our understanding of American regionalism. Their scope is superb because of the inclusive range of their definition of 'art, ' the varied ethnicities of the artists discussed, and the distinctive impact of environment, light, and culture on California art. A dazzling treasure, as pleasing to the eye as it is to the mind."--Michael Kammen, Professor of History, Cornell University
Download or read book American Miller written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selections from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts written by Anne B. Barriault and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Selections from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts features the 100 objects and essays original to the 1997 edition plus 50 entries detailing major acquisitions added to the permanent collection since that time...This reader- and visitor-friendly edition represents objects of the finest quality. The mixture of signature pieces and those that deserve to be better known and understood illustrates the breadth of VMFA's collection and captures the flavor and character of the Museum." "Each object receives a two-page spread with full-color reproduction, a brief description and history, and sidebars with additional, at-a-glance information. Included also are a new Foreword by VMFA director Alex Nyerges and an updated Introduction highlighting the expansion and renovations of the building and grounds."--Publisher description.
Download or read book Oral History Interview with Paul Sample written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interview of Paul Sample conducted 1971 October 10, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art. Sample speaks of his studies with Jonas Lie and Stanton Macdonald-Wright; teaching at the University of Southern California and at Dartmouth College; working on frescos with David Alfaro Siqueiros in California; working on murals for the Treasury Department's art project; exhibitions in New York galleries; his series of paintings for the American Tobacco Company. He discusses his subject matter.
Download or read book American Enka Corp written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [pt.1]: Hearings were held in Morristown, Tenn; [pt.2]: Continuation of hearings on alleged terrorism and coercion against members of Textile Workers Union in Morristown, Tenn., during 1950 strike against American Enka Corp. Contains reproductions of sworn depositions and other supporting evidence.
Download or read book Selections from the American Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts and the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum written by Museum of Fine Arts (Springfield, Mass.) and published by Springfield Library & Museum Association. This book was released on 1999 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1946-11-25 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Download or read book Pictures of People written by Pamela Allara and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2000 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant chronicle of the life and work of a prolific painter and bohemian eccentric.
Download or read book Individual Characteristics Significant to Salary Levels of Engineers and Scientists written by Richard P. Howell and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective comparisons between salaries of one engineer-scientist population and those of another may be made in two ways, using equations developed in this study. The first compares the aggregate salary of a given population with the aggregate salary of the population used in developing the equations of this study. The steps necessary to make such a comparison consist in: (1) obtaining point-of-hire characteristics of the population to be compared, (2) entering the values of the variables called for in the equation developed in this study, (3) computing the sum of the salaries, and (4) comparing results with the sum of the actual salaries being paid. The second type of comparison consists in developing a regression equation concerning the population to be compared, using point-of-hire variables identical with those used in this study. The coefficients or parameters of the resulting equations may then be compared to those of the equations developed here to provide insights concerning the relative emphasis placed by management (knowingly or unknowingly) on selected characteristics of new hires. The coefficients or other parameters amount to a kind of profile, and by knowingly controlling them, a management may choose the characteristics that it wishes to stress in salary determinations. Thus the salary structure may become a more effective means to implement policy.
Download or read book The World of Work written by Robert Dubin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1958, concerns American industry and commerce, and is devoted to what people do while they are working and reasons for their behaviour. This volume should prove valuable as an attempt to make systematic sense out of work in our industrial world. The balance of fact and theory is useful to those interested in understanding this complex world of working behaviour, and will be of interest to students of human resource management.
Download or read book The Oxford Illustrated History of World War Two written by Richard Overy and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades. Yet it is three generations since hostilities formally ended in 1945 and the conflict is now a lived memory for only a few. And this growing distance in time has allowed historians to think differently about how to describe it, how to explain its course, and what subjects to focus on when considering the wartime experience. For instance, as World War Two recedes ever further into the past, even a question as apparently basic as when it began and ended becomes less certain. Was it 1939, when the war in Europe began? Or the summer of 1941, with the beginning of Hitler's war against the Soviet Union? Or did it become truly global only when the Japanese brought the USA into the war at the end of 1941? And what of the long conflict in East Asia, beginning with the Japanese aggression in China in the early 1930s and only ending with the triumph of the Chinese Communists in 1949? In The Oxford Illustrated History of World War Two a team of leading historians re-assesses the conflict for a new generation, exploring the course of the war not just in terms of the Allied response but also from the viewpoint of the Axis aggressor states. Under Richard Overy's expert editorial guidance, the contributions take us from the genesis of war, through the action in the major theatres of conflict by land, sea, and air, to assessments of fighting power and military and technical innovation, the economics of total war, the culture and propaganda of war, and the experience of war (and genocide) for both combatants and civilians, concluding with an account of the transition from World War to Cold War in the late 1940s. Together, they provide a stimulating and thought-provoking new interpretation of one of the most terrible and fascinating episodes in world history.
Download or read book The Oxford Illustrated History of World War II written by R. J. Overy and published by Oxford Illustrated History. This book was released on 2015 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War Two re-assessed for a new generation, from the 1930s through to the beginnings of the Cold War. This book provides a stimulating and thought-provoking new interpretation of one of the most terrible episodes in world history.
