Download or read book New Orleans Impressionist Cityscapes written by Phil Sandusky and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of paintings examines the different areas of New Orleans in unique and intimate ways and, by doing so, captures the distinctive spirit of the city through extraordinary brushwork and vivid color. With 130 paintings and accompanying text demonstrating the growth and vivaciousness of the Crescent City, this devotional illuminates the beauty of one of the world's liveliest cities.
Download or read book New Orleans en Plein Air written by and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local artist Phil Sandusky presents 150 paintings he created from 1987 to 2002 in the Crescent City.
Download or read book The New Orleans of Lafcadio Hearn written by Delia LaBarre and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lafcadio Hearn (1850--1904) was a master satirist who displayed a fiery wit both as a writer and as an artist. For seven months in 1880, he surprised and amused the readers of New Orleans with his wood-block "cartoons" and accompanying articles, which were variously funny, scathing, surreal, political, whimsical, and moral. This delightful book collects in their entirety, for the first time, all of the extant satirical columns and woodcut illustrations published in the Daily City Item -- 181 columns in all. Hearn displays immense range, illuminating in words and prints the unique culture of New Orleans, including its Creole history, debauched underworld, corrupt politicians, and voudou practitioners. The columns are expertly annotated by Delia LaBarre, who places them in their unique Crescent City context. With virtually no training in art of any kind, Hearn began creating his illustrations partly to boost the circulation of a small daily newspaper in a competitive market. He believed in the power of satirical cartoons to communicate big ideas in small spaces -- in particular, to reveal the habits, prejudices, and delusions of the current generation. Blind in his left eye (since a boyhood accident) and severely myopic in his right, Hearn nonetheless painstakingly carved out drawings on wood blocks with a penknife to be printed alongside his articles on the newspaper's letterpress. Hearn developed, from the first of these woodcuts to the last, a unique style that expressed the full range of his wit, from razor-sharp condemnation to tender affection. Hearn had a keen eye for the absurd, along with an extraordinary ability to modulate his criticism and praise in a continuum from cauterizing vitriol to palliative balm, from the heaviest sarcasm to the lightest wit. In the pieces collected here, there can be found a unifying thread: Hearn's love/hate relationship with the virtues and vices of New Orleans, a city that continually amused and amazed him. Born in Greece and raised in Ireland, Lafcadio Hearn immigrated to the United States as a teenager and became a newspaper reporter in Cincinnati, Ohio. When he married a black woman, an act that was illegal at the time, the newspaper fired him and Hearn relocated to New Orleans. In the early 1880s his contributions to national publications (like Harper's Weekly and Scribners Magazine) helped mold the popular image of New Orleans as a colorful place of decadence and hedonism. In 1888, Hearn left New Orleans for Japan, where he took the name Koizumi Yakumo and worked as a teacher, journalist, and writer. "And it may come to pass that I shall have stranger things to tell you; for this is a land of magical moons and of witches and of warlocks; and were I to tell you all that I have seen and heard in these years in this enchanted City of Dreams you would verily deem me mad rather than morbid." -- Lafcadio Hearn, 1880, describing New Orleans in a letter to a friend
Download or read book New Orleans in Golden Age Postcards written by Matthew Griffis and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Orleans in Golden Age Postcards showcases over three hundred vintage postcard images of the city, printed in glorious color. From popular tourist attractions, restaurants, and grand hotels to local businesses, banks, churches, neighborhoods, civic buildings, and parks, the book not only celebrates these cards’ visual beauty but also considers their historic value. After providing an overview of the history of postcards in New Orleans, Matthew Griffis expertly arranges and describes the postcards by subject or theme. Focusing on the period from 1900 to 1920, the book is the first to offer information about the cards’ many publishers. More than a century ago, people sent postcards like we make phone calls today. Many also collected postcards, even trading them in groups or clubs. Adorned with colorized views of urban and rural landscapes, postcards offered people a chance to own images of places they lived, visited, or merely dreamed of visiting. Today, these relics remain one of the richest visual records of the last century as they offer a glimpse at the ways a city represented itself. They now appear regularly in art exhibits, blogs, and research collections. Many of the cards in this book have not been widely seen in well over a century, and many of the places and traditions they depict have long since vanished.
Download or read book New Orleans written by Kady Perry and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wild, ramshackle streets of New Orleans tell a rich story of life, loss, celebration, and change. Winding through her veins-where rambling oak trees drenched in Spanish moss tower over uneven sidewalks-you discover colorful shotgun houses, doorknobs fashioned as skulls, the sweet smell of Southern Satsumas, and an unrestrained year-round celebration of music, culture, and art peppered with plenty of human characters. It's a celebration that has drawn visitors from all over the world and has made New Orleans a hotspot for creative types to live, work, and play. It is also home to two of the most controversial and accessible genres of art: street art and graffiti. The walls-even the ones that are blank or bombed by tags-are drenched in history and stand as witnesses to the city's resilience. They are pages torn from a book about the Crescent City, the Big Easy, the City That Care Forgot.
Download or read book New Orleans written by Carol M. Highsmith and published by Crescent. This book was released on 1998 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Orleans—the Crescent City—is Latinmañana, Frenchjoie de vivre, African-American effervescence, Italian zest, and Uptown Creole pomp, all stirred with a dash of southern indolence into a savory cultural gumbo both fascinating and unique. The historic sights and rhythmic sounds, tantalizing tastes and exotic aromas of old New Orleans linger with visitors long after they have left the languid Queen City of the South. A city of lively and varied charms, New Orleans offers a wealth of pleasures for the senses. This book is a marvelous tour of all of the city's most famous sights and sounds. You will visit the historic French Quarter, with its ornate wrought-iron balconies and elegant bistros and its frightening Historic Voodoo Museum. You will party in the madness of Mardi Gras, with its colorful floats and zany carnival krewes, dance to the boisterous sounds of Bourbon Street jazz, and taste the delectable feasts of Commander's Palace, one of the city's premier restaurants. Also on the itinerary is the city's best-known landmark, the 1794 Saint Louis Cathedral, America's oldest cathedral, as well as the campuses of respected Tulane and Loyola universities.New Orleans: A Pictorial Souveniris a dazzling portrait that memorably captures the city's fabled style and verve. New Orleans: A Pictorial Souvenir,filled with vivid and memorable photos, is the perfect memento for anyone who has ever visited the city, and a superb gift for anyone who wishes to savor the Big Easy's special tang and allure.
Download or read book The French Quarter Other New Orleans Scenes written by and published by Firebird Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pen and ink artist Joseph Arrigo, a native New Orleanian, has sketched the city's most charming landmarks. Each of his illustrations is accompanied by a description explaining its significance. Wander through the French Quarter, past Jackson Square and Pirate's Alley, through downtown New Orleans, past the Louisiana Superdome, and back to the mighty Mississippi River, and New Orleans's famous riverboats. Linger outside of some of New Orlean's favorite eating and meeting places: Cafi1/2 du Monde, Antoine's, Brennan's, and the Napoleon House. The French Quarter and Other New Orleans Scenes is sure to delight anyone wishing to hold on to fond memories of -the city that care forgot.-
Download or read book Painting Katrina written by Phil Sandusky and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book contains color reproductions of seventy-six of Sandusky's paintings: thirty created a year before Katrina, depicting New Orleans in better times; thirty in the immediate aftermath of the storm, focusing primarily on scenes of devastation at the lakefront and the Lower Ninth Ward; and the last sixteen painted approximately one year after Katrina, showing both the city's painstaking recovery and nature's reclamation of parts of New Orleans. Sandusky prefaces the paintings with background about his style and a compelling journal chronicling his experience exploring and capturing the hurricane devastation."--Publisher website (September 2007).
Download or read book Sweet Spots written by Teresa A. Toulouse and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Carrie Bernhard, Scott Bernhard, Marilyn R. Brown, Richard Campanella, John P. Clark, Joel Dinerstein, Pableaux Johnson, John P. Klingman, Angel Adams Parham, Bruce Boyd Raeburn, Ruth Salvaggio, Christopher Schaberg, Teresa A. Toulouse, and Beth Willinger Much has been written about New Orleans's distinctive architecture and urban fabric, as well as the city's art, literature, and music. There is, however, little discussion connecting these features. Sweet Spots--a title drawn from jazz musicians' name for the space "in-between" performers and dancers where music best resonates--provides multiple connections between the city's spaces, its complex culture, and its future. Drawing on the late Tulane architect Malcolm Heard's ideas about "interstitial" spaces, this collection examines how a variety of literal and represented "in-between" spaces in New Orleans have addressed race, class, gender, community, and environment. As scholars of architecture, art, African American studies, English, history, jazz, philosophy, and sociology, the authors incorporate materials from architectural history and practice, literary texts, paintings, drawings, music, dance, and even statistical analyses. Interstitial space refers not only to functional elements inside and outside of many New Orleans houses--high ceilings, hidden staircases, galleries, and courtyards--but also to compelling spatial relations between the city's houses, streets, and neighborhoods. Rich with visual materials, Sweet Spots reveals the ways that diverse New Orleans spaces take on meanings and accrete stories that promote certain consequences both for those who live in them and for those who read such stories. The volume evokes, preserves, criticizes, and amends understanding of a powerful and often-missed feature of New Orleans's elusive reality.
Download or read book Expressions of Place written by John R. Kemp and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary artists revealing the state's urban landscapes, southwestern swamps, central prairies, verdant forests, and northern fields
Download or read book Coloring the Crescent City written by Victoria Zemke and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local artist, Victoria Zemke, took all the things she loves most about her city, and turned them into something you can experience no matter where you are. Whether you're a kid, adult, local, or someone far away, you can enjoy all this coloring book has to offer. Just like New Orleans, all are welcome here!Explore the City of New Orleans through "Coloring the Crescent City" while adding your own personality and charm to each page. This 45 page coloring book has one sided pages, so you can color freely without worrying about colors bleeding through. This also allows your masterpiece to be taken out for framing, without losing the image behind it.
Download or read book Gustave Caillebotte and the Fashioning of Identity in Impressionist Paris written by Norma Broude and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once neglected, Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894), a painter associated with the French Impressionists, has become the subject of intense public interest and renewed scholarly debate. With a series of exhibitions showcasing his work, Caillebotte's enigmatic paintings have begun to exert an unexpected fascination for postmodern audiences and have become rich sites for interpretive debate.
Download or read book Orleans Gallery New Orleans written by Orleans Gallery (New Orleans) and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Creole Son written by Micheal Llewellyn and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From WATER STREET PRESS In 1872, French painter Edgar Degas is disillusioned by a lackluster career and haunted by the Prussian siege of Paris and the bloodbath of the Commune. Seeking personal and professional rebirth, he journeys to New Orleans, birthplace of his Creole mother. He is horrified to learn he has exchanged one city in crisis for another-post-Civil War New Orleans is a corrupt town occupied by hostile Union troops and suffering under the heavy hand of Reconstruction. He is further shocked to find his family deeply involved in the violent struggle to reclaim political power at all costs. Despite the chaos swirling around him, Degas sketches and paints with fervor and manages to reinvent himself and transition his style from neoclassical into the emerging world of Impressionism. He ultimately became one of the masters of the new movement, but how did New Orleans empower Degas to fulfill this destiny? The answer may be found in the impeccably researched, richly imagined historical novel, Creole Son.
Download or read book The Art of Pastel Painting written by Alan Flattmann and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished artist and teacher Alan Flattmann provides invaluable information about theory and technique as well as making crayons, designing proper studio lighting, and much more. Both amateur and professional artists will find this book informative and useful.Highlighted techniques include the painterly blended and the Impressionistic broken-color approaches. There are also illustrated discussions of concept and technique, mood and technique, mixed media, form and space, aerial perspective, modeling, and the importance of simplicity.
Download or read book Historic New Orleans Collection written by Historic New Orleans Collection and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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