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Book Art for the Nation

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  • Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Art for the Nation written by National Gallery of Art (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhibition includes approximately 2% of the acquisitions made during the 1990s.

Book Space Is the Place

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  • Author : John Szwed
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2020-04-30
  • ISBN : 1478012056
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Space Is the Place written by John Szwed and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra—aka Herman Blount—was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn. He recorded over 200 albums with his Arkestra, which, dressed in Egypto-space costumes, played everything from boogie-woogie and swing to fusion and free jazz. John Szwed's Space is the Place is the definitive biography of this musical polymath, who was one of the twentieth century's greatest avant-garde artists and intellectuals. Charting the whole of Sun Ra's life and career, Szwed outlines how after years in Chicago as a blues and swing band pianist, Sun Ra set out in the 1950s to impart his views about the galaxy, black people, and spiritual matters by performing music with the Arkestra that was as vital and innovative as it was mercurial and confounding. Szwed's readers—whether they are just discovering Sun Ra or are among the legion of poets, artists, intellectuals, and musicians who consider him a spiritual godfather—will find that, indeed, space is the place.

Book Black Diamond Queens

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  • Author : Maureen Mahon
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2020-10-09
  • ISBN : 1478012773
  • Pages : 231 pages

Download or read book Black Diamond Queens written by Maureen Mahon and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll—from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some of the genre's most iconic acts. Despite this, black women's importance to the music's history has been diminished by narratives of rock as a mostly white male enterprise. In Black Diamond Queens, Maureen Mahon draws on recordings, press coverage, archival materials, and interviews to document the history of African American women in rock and roll between the 1950s and the 1980s. Mahon details the musical contributions and cultural impact of Big Mama Thornton, LaVern Baker, Betty Davis, Tina Turner, Merry Clayton, Labelle, the Shirelles, and others, demonstrating how dominant views of gender, race, sexuality, and genre affected their careers. By uncovering this hidden history of black women in rock and roll, Mahon reveals a powerful sonic legacy that continues to reverberate into the twenty-first century.

Book The Cornell Widow

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1899
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book The Cornell Widow written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hope and Prey

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  • Author : Sharon Horton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009-09
  • ISBN : 9781601545770
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Hope and Prey written by Sharon Horton and published by . This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A date with destiny isn't what Kurt Reid has in mind the night he enters the "alley of convenience" he uses to meet informants. Yet destiny is what he finds in the crumpled form of a young woman. Kurt approaches slowly, and moments later he finds himself lying flat on his back. Kurt has just met Andrea "AJ" Summers, someone he senses is no ordinary woman. Lovely and likable, AJ possesses other qualities that some see as dangerous. She's smart, brave, and very good with a gun. And though she tries to deny it, AJ admires, in Kurt, the same quality she possesses...fierce independence. When AJ joins the underground newspaper Kurt works with, they soon learn that one of the criminals they are seeking is hunting AJ. Can they overcome their independent natures and learn to love and protect each other?

Book 46 Years

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  • Author : Bugujju Publishing
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-07-21
  • ISBN : 9781081811686
  • Pages : 102 pages

Download or read book 46 Years written by Bugujju Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-21 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lined 6x9 journal with 100 blank pages. This is the perfect and inexpensive minimalist Typographic birthday gift to sketch, put stickers, write memories, or take notes in Get yourself this amazing journal gift now

Book Hollywood Before Glamour

Download or read book Hollywood Before Glamour written by M. Tolini Finamore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploration of fashion in American silent film offers fresh perspectives on the era preceding the studio system, and the evolution of Hollywood's distinctive brand of glamour. By the 1910s, the moving image was an integral part of everyday life and communicated fascinating, but as yet un-investigated, ideas and ideals about fashionable dress.

Book 46 Years

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  • Author : Ayden Ham
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-09-13
  • ISBN : 9781692935672
  • Pages : 102 pages

Download or read book 46 Years written by Ayden Ham and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-13 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lined 6x9 journal with 100 blank pages. This is the perfect and inexpensive minimalist Typographic birthday gift to sketch, put stickers, write memories, or take notes in Get yourself this amazing journal gift now

Book 46 Years

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  • Author : Wakula Publishing
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-08-21
  • ISBN : 9781687718587
  • Pages : 102 pages

Download or read book 46 Years written by Wakula Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lined 6x9 journal with 100 blank pages. This is the perfect and inexpensive minimalist Typographic birthday gift to sketch, put stickers, write memories, or take notes in Get yourself this amazing journal gift now

Book Moving Places

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  • Author : Jonathan Rosenbaum
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1995-03-24
  • ISBN : 0520089073
  • Pages : 221 pages

Download or read book Moving Places written by Jonathan Rosenbaum and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-03-24 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I would number Moving Places among a handful of truly classic books about film."—James Naremore, author of Acting in the Cinema

Book Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Photography  3 Volume Set

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Photography 3 Volume Set written by Lynne Warren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-15 with total page 1823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography explores the vast international scope of twentieth-century photography and explains that history with a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary manner. This unique approach covers the aesthetic history of photography as an evolving art and documentary form, while also recognizing it as a developing technology and cultural force. This Encyclopedia presents the important developments, movements, photographers, photographic institutions, and theoretical aspects of the field along with information about equipment, techniques, and practical applications of photography. To bring this history alive for the reader, the set is illustrated in black and white throughout, and each volume contains a color plate section. A useful glossary of terms is also included.

Book 46   Lit

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  • Author : Nabuti Publishing
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-07-08
  • ISBN : 9781079089691
  • Pages : 102 pages

Download or read book 46 Lit written by Nabuti Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lined 6x9 journal with 100 blank pages. This is the perfect and inexpensive minimalist Typographic birthday gift to sketch, put stickers, write memories, or take notes in Get yourself this amazing journal gift now

Book Hello 46

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  • Author : Wakula Publishing
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-08-23
  • ISBN : 9781688169098
  • Pages : 102 pages

Download or read book Hello 46 written by Wakula Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lined 6x9 journal with 100 blank pages. This is the perfect and inexpensive minimalist Typographic birthday gift to sketch, put stickers, write memories, or take notes in Get yourself this amazing journal gift now

Book Hello 46

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  • Author : Bugujju Publishing
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2019-07-26
  • ISBN : 9781082866593
  • Pages : 102 pages

Download or read book Hello 46 written by Bugujju Publishing and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lined 6x9 journal with 100 blank pages. This is the perfect and inexpensive minimalist Typographic birthday gift to sketch, put stickers, write memories, or take notes in Get yourself this amazing journal gift now

Book Walt Disney and Europe

Download or read book Walt Disney and Europe written by Robin Allan and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrating on the classic animated feature films produced under Walt Disney's personal supervision, Robin Allan examines the European influences on some of the most beloved Disney classics from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to The Jungle Book. This lavishly illustrated volume is based on archival research and extensive interviews with those who worked closely with Walt Disney.

Book College

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  • Author : Andrew Delbanco
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2023-04-18
  • ISBN : 0691246386
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book College written by Andrew Delbanco and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strengths and failures of the American college, and why liberal education still matters As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience—an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peers—is in danger of becoming a thing of the past. In College, prominent cultural critic Andrew Delbanco offers a trenchant defense of such an education, and warns that it is becoming a privilege reserved for the relatively rich. In describing what a true college education should be, he demonstrates why making it available to as many young people as possible remains central to America's democratic promise. In a brisk and vivid historical narrative, Delbanco explains how the idea of college arose in the colonial period from the Puritan idea of the gathered church, how it struggled to survive in the nineteenth century in the shadow of the new research universities, and how, in the twentieth century, it slowly opened its doors to women, minorities, and students from low-income families. He describes the unique strengths of America’s colleges in our era of globalization and, while recognizing the growing centrality of science, technology, and vocational subjects in the curriculum, he mounts a vigorous defense of a broadly humanistic education for all. Acknowledging the serious financial, intellectual, and ethical challenges that all colleges face today, Delbanco considers what is at stake in the urgent effort to protect these venerable institutions for future generations.

Book Lit At 46

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  • Author : Ayden Ham
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-09-17
  • ISBN : 9781693780004
  • Pages : 102 pages

Download or read book Lit At 46 written by Ayden Ham and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lined 6x9 journal with 100 blank pages. This is the perfect and inexpensive minimalist Typographic birthday gift to sketch, put stickers, write memories, or take notes in Get yourself this amazing journal gift now