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Book Central to Their Lives

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lynne Blackman
  • Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
  • Release : 2018-06-20
  • ISBN : 1611179556
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Central to Their Lives written by Lynne Blackman and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarly essays on the achievements of female artists working in and inspired by the American South Looking back at her lengthy career just four years before her death, modernist painter Nell Blaine said, "Art is central to my life. Not being able to make or see art would be a major deprivation." The Virginia native's creative path began early, and, during the course of her life, she overcame significant barriers in her quest to make and even see art, including serious vision problems, polio, and paralysis. And then there was her gender. In 1957 Blaine was hailed by Life magazine as someone to watch, profiled alongside four other emerging painters whom the journalist praised "not as notable women artists but as notable artists who happen to be women." In Central to Their Lives, twenty-six noted art historians offer scholarly insight into the achievements of female artists working in and inspired by the American South. Spanning the decades between the late 1890s and early 1960s, this volume examines the complex challenges these artists faced in a traditionally conservative region during a period in which women's social, cultural, and political roles were being redefined and reinterpreted. The presentation—and its companion exhibition—features artists from all of the Southern states, including Dusti Bongé, Anne Goldthwaite, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Ida Kohlmeyer, Loïs Mailou Jones, Alma Thomas, and Helen Turner. These essays examine how the variables of historical gender norms, educational barriers, race, regionalism, sisterhood, suffrage, and modernism mitigated and motivated these women who were seeking expression on canvas or in clay. Whether working from studio space, in spare rooms at home, or on the world stage, these artists made remarkable contributions to the art world while fostering future generations of artists through instruction, incorporating new aesthetics into the fine arts, and challenging the status quo. Sylvia Yount, the Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator in Charge of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, provides a foreword to the volume. Contributors: Sara C. Arnold Daniel Belasco Lynne Blackman Carolyn J. Brown Erin R. Corrales-Diaz John A. Cuthbert Juilee Decker Nancy M. Doll Jane W. Faquin Elizabeth C. Hamilton Elizabeth S. Hawley Maia Jalenak Karen Towers Klacsmann Sandy McCain Dwight McInvaill Courtney A. McNeil Christopher C. Oliver Julie Pierotti Deborah C. Pollack Robin R. Salmon Mary Louise Soldo Schultz Martha R. Severens Evie Torrono Stephen C. Wicks Kristen Miller Zohn

Book The Jews of Britain  1656 to 2000

Download or read book The Jews of Britain 1656 to 2000 written by Todd M. Endelman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Jewish community in Britain, including resettlement, integration, acculturation, economic transformation and immigration.

Book Principles of Planning Small Houses

Download or read book Principles of Planning Small Houses written by United States. Federal Housing Administration and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Appendices  B  C  and D

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  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1972
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1388 pages

Download or read book Appendices B C and D written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Genocide and Human Rights

Download or read book Genocide and Human Rights written by J. Roth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-07-27 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genocide is evil or nothing could be. It raises a host of questions about humanity, rights, justice, and reality, which are key areas of concern for philosophy. Strangely, however, philosophers have tended to ignore genocide. Even more problematic, philosophy and philosophers bear more responsibility for genocide than they have usually admitted. In Genocide and Human Rights: A Philosophical Guide, an international group of twenty-five contemporary philosophers work to correct those deficiencies by showing how philosophy can and should respond to genocide, particularly in ways that defend human rights.

Book A People Apart

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  • Author : David Vital
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2001-07-26
  • ISBN : 9780199246816
  • Pages : 970 pages

Download or read book A People Apart written by David Vital and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-26 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of the Jews in Europe examines the role played by the Jews themselves, across the whole of Europe, during the century and a half leading up to the birth of the nation of Israel, and the state-sponsored genocide of the Holocaust.

Book Genealogy of the Dart Family in America

Download or read book Genealogy of the Dart Family in America written by Thaddeus Lincoln Bolton and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Healing Our Village

Download or read book Healing Our Village written by Lenore T. Coleman and published by Healing Our Village. This book was released on 2004 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are one of the 21 million people in the United States diagnosed with diabetes, you may feel frightened and confused. Why did you get this disease? How can you manage it? What about diet, exercise, medications? This can be a terribly difficult time when your doctor first tells you, you have a serious illness. Well help is here! Dr. Lenore T. Coleman and Dr. James R. Gavin, III have written a comprehensive, highly-readable manual on the long-term management of diabetes. You will learn what causes the disease, which medications are used to control it and how they are administered, and how you can avoid complications such as blindness, kidney disease, and amputations. With the right tools, you can lead a long and healthy life despite this disease. Healing Our Village: A Self-Care Guide to Diabetes Control will show you how.

Book The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor  Connecticut

Download or read book The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor Connecticut written by Henry Reed Stiles and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Car Safety Wars

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  • Author : Michael R. Lemov
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2015-03-19
  • ISBN : 1611477468
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Car Safety Wars written by Michael R. Lemov and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Car Safety Wars is a gripping history of the hundred-year struggle to improve the safety of American automobiles and save lives on the highways. Described as the “equivalent of war” by the Supreme Court, the battle involved the automobile industry, unsung and long-forgotten safety heroes, at least six US Presidents, a reluctant Congress, new auto technologies, and, most of all, the mindset of the American public: would they demand and be willing to pay for safer cars? The “Car Safety Wars” were at first won by consumers and safety advocates. The major victory was the enactment in 1966 of a ground breaking federal safety law. The safety act was pushed through Congress over the bitter objections of car manufacturers by a major scandal involving General Motors, its private detectives, Ralph Nader, and a gutty cigar-chomping old politician. The act is a success story for government safety regulation. It has cut highway death and injury rates by over seventy percent in the years since its enactment, saving more than two million lives and billions of taxpayer dollars. But the car safety wars have never ended. GM has recently been charged with covering up deadly defects resulting in multiple ignition switch shut offs. Toyota has been fined for not reporting fatal unintended acceleration in many models. Honda and other companies have—for years—sold cars incorporating defective air bags. These current events, suggesting a failure of safety regulation, may serve to warn us that safety laws and agencies created with good intentions can be corrupted and strangled over time. This book suggests ways to avoid this result, but shows that safer cars and highways are a hard road to travel. We are only part of the way home.

Book The Galpin Family in America

Download or read book The Galpin Family in America written by William Freeman Galpin and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A genealogy of the Galphin family in America who are descendants of John Galphin born in New Haven, Connecticut.

Book The Davidson Genealogy

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  • Author : Mary Elizabeth Davidson Harbaugh
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1949
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 504 pages

Download or read book The Davidson Genealogy written by Mary Elizabeth Davidson Harbaugh and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the family from antiquity, to England and the time of the Norman Conquest, then to the United States.

Book Warburton  the Village and the Family

Download or read book Warburton the Village and the Family written by Norman Warburton and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Foote Family

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  • Author : Nathaniel Goodwin
  • Publisher : Kronenberger Press
  • Release : 2010-11
  • ISBN : 1446043991
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book The Foote Family written by Nathaniel Goodwin and published by Kronenberger Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Book Wolford Rural Cemetery

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  • Author : Ontario Genealogical Society. Leeds & Grenville Branch
  • Publisher : Brockville, Ont. : Leeds & Grenville Branch, O.G.S.
  • Release : 1988*
  • ISBN : 9780920300657
  • Pages : 49 pages

Download or read book Wolford Rural Cemetery written by Ontario Genealogical Society. Leeds & Grenville Branch and published by Brockville, Ont. : Leeds & Grenville Branch, O.G.S.. This book was released on 1988* with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: