Download or read book News Art written by Stanley B. Burns and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unexplored visual history of the melding of art, photography and journalism takes the reader back to the days before Photoshop and reveals how newspaper editors would doctor images for effect and intent. These images, from 1900-1960, illustrate the range of art enhancement, from outlining and airbrushing to complete overpainting with subjects ranging from crime scenes, world events and social personalities. Presenting original photographs in an area still open to dicovery and collecting, NEWS ART is a guide for collectors and curators.
Download or read book Burning the Books written by Richard Ovenden and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction—and surprising survival—of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Burning the Books recounts the history that brought us to this point. Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the UK Windrush generation. He examines both the motivations for these acts—political, religious, and cultural—and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process. More than simply repositories for knowledge, libraries and archives inspire and inform citizens. In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself. By preserving records of citizenship and records of the rights of citizens as enshrined in legal documents such as the Magna Carta and the decisions of the US Supreme Court, they support the rule of law. In Burning the Books, Ovenden takes a polemical stance on the social and political importance of the conservation and protection of knowledge, challenging governments in particular, but also society as a whole, to improve public policy and funding for these essential institutions.
Download or read book The Black Church written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. “Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again “Engaging. . . . In Gates’s telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth—as it is in heaven.” —Jon Meacham, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and The Black Box, and one of our most important voices on the African American experience, comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America. For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity—an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today’s political landscape. At road’s end, and after Gates’s distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative—as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community’s most critical personal and social issues. In a country that has historically afforded its citizens from the African diaspora tragically few safe spaces, the Black Church has always been more than a sanctuary. This fact was never lost on white supremacists: from the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Long after slavery’s formal eradication, church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists continued, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. The past often isn’t even past—Dylann Roof committed his slaughter in the Mother Emanuel AME Church 193 years after it was first burned down by white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, following a thwarted slave rebellion. But as Gates brilliantly shows, the Black church has never been only one thing. Its story lies at the heart of the Black political struggle, and it has produced many of the Black community’s most notable leaders. At the same time, some churches and denominations have eschewed political engagement and exemplified practices of exclusion and intolerance that have caused polarization and pain. Those tensions remain today, as a rising generation demands freedom and dignity for all within and beyond their communities, regardless of race, sex, or gender. Still, as a source of faith and refuge, spiritual sustenance and struggle against society’s darkest forces, the Black Church has been central, as this enthralling history makes vividly clear.
Download or read book Borrowstounness and District Being Historical Sketches of Kinneil Carriden and Bo ness C 1550 1850 written by Thomas James Salmon and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Sketch of Franklin County Pennsylvania written by I. H. M'Cauley and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Historical Sketch of Johnson County Indiana written by D. D. Banta and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-25 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Download or read book Sketches of the History of Man in Two Volumes written by Lord Henry Home Kames and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The following work is the substance of various speculations, that occasionally amused the author, and enlivened his leisure-hours. It is not intended for the learned; they are above it: nor for the vulgar; they are below it. It is intended for men, who, equally removed from the corruption of opulence, and from the depression of bodily labour, are bent on useful knowledge; who, even in the delirium of youth, feel the dawn of patriotism, and who in riper years enjoy its meridian warmth. To such men this work is dedicated; and that they may profit by it, is the author's ardent wish, and probably will be while any spirit remains in him to form a wish"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved).
Download or read book Historical Sketches and Reminiscences of Madison County Indiana written by John La Rue Forkner and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Sketch of the Chemung Valley Etc written by Theseus Apoleon Cheney and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Sketches of the Missions Under the Care of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church written by Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church (Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.) and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Burns Modern Horror Sketchbook written by Charles Burns and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Robert Burns with an Account of His Life and a Criticism of His Writings c written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Sketch of the Chemung Valley New York Elmira and Chemung County and Broome Herkimer Livingston Montgomery Onondaga Ontario Otsego Schoharie Schuyler Steuben Tioga Ulster Counties written by T. Apoleon Cheney and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully reprinted special edition book by T. Apoleon Cheney. First published in 1868, this book provides a wonderful glimpse into Central New York State. Includes Elmira and Chemung County, and Broome, Herkimer, Livingston, Montgomery,Onondaga, Ontario, Otsego, Schoharie, Schuyler, Steuben, Tioga, Ulster Counties.
Download or read book From Stonecutter to Sculptor written by Elizabeth K. Allen and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length look at one of upstate New York's most notable artists, From Stonecutter to Sculptor traces the long and prolific career of Charles Calverley, who completed more than 250 busts, medallions, tablets, and statues during his lifetime. Beginning as a stonecutter in an Albany marble shop, Calverley then worked as an assistant to the famous neoclassical sculptor Erastus Dow Palmer for fifteen years. In 1868, Calverley began a successful career as a portrait sculptor in New York City; later he created mortuary bronzes for Albany Rural Cemetery. This celebration of Calverley's life and work draws extensively from the vast collection of the Albany Institute of History and Art. Represented fully are all periods of his career and the complete range of his sculptural production: busts, bas-reliefs, and medallions in plaster, marble, and bronze. Also included in this volume are Calverley's sketches of his bas-reliefs, the identification of a major unrecorded bronze funerary statue by Calverley, and a complete inventory of Calverley's known works. Elizabeth K. Allen is the author of Open-Air Sketching: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Drawings in the Albany Institute of History and Art.
Download or read book The antiquities of Arran with a historical sketch of the island embracing an account of the Sudreyjar under the Norsemen written by John M'Arthur and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Historical Sketch of Maury County written by William Stuart Fleming and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christianity in Ceylon with an Historical Sketch of the Brahmanical and Buddhist Superstitions written by James EMERSON (afterwards TENNENT (Sir James Emerson)) and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
