Download or read book More Than a Constructive Hobby written by William A. Camfield and published by Museum of Fine Arts (Houston). This book was released on 1996 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Freed (1906-75) painted vignettes of daily life, ideas, and emotions in relative obscurity for nearly thirty years in a style typically categorized as "naive" or "folk" art. More Than a Constructive Hobby surveys the Houston businessman/artist's work and shows how it was informed by sophisticated observations and an intense love of literature. Freed was born in San Antonio in 1906, the only child of German-origin Jews, but spent most of his life in Houston. After World War II, he took advantage of the GI Bill to enroll in a basic painting class. Although he created art for his own pleasure in Houston, far removed from the nation's northeastern cultural center, Freed's best work fused two honorable traditions, combining the cultural commentary of such artists as Honoré Daumier and Ben Shahn with the style of "naive" or "folk" art set by the Douanier Rousseau, Horace Pippin, and John Kane. With the overwhelming art energy centered in New York, Houston artists like Freed received little attention. Compiled to accompany a 1996 exhibition of his work by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, More Than a Constructive Hobby redresses that neglect. Freed's gentle humanism imbues his compositions; he recorded the social mores of his times, using his friends and local environment to mirror the larger issues of his day. On the rare occasions that he addressed greater historical events, such as the horrors of Auschwitz or the strife of the civil rights movement, he did so in human terms, looking to the individual to express the whole.
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Download or read book Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime written by Shaun L. Gabbidon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal for use in either crime theory or race and crime courses, this is the only text to look at the array of explanations for crime as they relate to racial and ethnic groups. Each chapter begins with a historical review of each theoretical perspective and how its original formulation and more recent derivatives account for racial/ethnic differences. The theoretical perspectives include those based on religion, biology, social disorganization/strain, subculture, labeling, conflict, social control, colonial, and feminism. This new Second Edition includes discussions of "Deadly Symbiosis," critical race theory/criminology, comparative conflict theory, maximization, and abortion, race, and crime. In the closing chapter, the author considers which perspectives have shown the most promise in the area of race/ethnicity and crime.
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