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Book Kingdoms of Edward Hicks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carolyn Weekley
  • Publisher : Abradale Press
  • Release : 1999-03
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Kingdoms of Edward Hicks written by Carolyn Weekley and published by Abradale Press. This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On life and works of Edward Hicks

Book Edward Hicks  Painter of the Peaceable Kingdom

Download or read book Edward Hicks Painter of the Peaceable Kingdom written by Alice Ford and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life of self-taught nineteenth-century painter Edward Hicks, drawing heavily from family correspondence and Hicks' memoirs.

Book  Sometimes in the Wrong  But Never in Doubt

Download or read book Sometimes in the Wrong But Never in Doubt written by L. Edward Hicks and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in the face of apparent setbacks - such as Barry Goldwater's defeat in the 1964 presidential election - Benson never wavered in actively promoting his brand of Americanism.

Book Edward Hicks  1780 1849

Download or read book Edward Hicks 1780 1849 written by Edward Hicks and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Edward Hicks  His Peaceable Kingdoms and Other Paintings

Download or read book Edward Hicks His Peaceable Kingdoms and Other Paintings written by Eleanore Price Mather and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Edward Hicks  His Life and Art

Download or read book Edward Hicks His Life and Art written by Alice Ford and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On Edward Hicks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward Hicks
  • Publisher : Lucia|Marquand
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 9781646570065
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book On Edward Hicks written by Edward Hicks and published by Lucia|Marquand. This book was released on 2021 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Edward Hicks (1780-1849) has long been considered our foremost folk artist. Many people recognize his name and can visualize his Peaceable Kingdom paintings, with their vision, taken from the Old Testament, of wild, predatory animals coming to an accord with tame, defenseless creatures. But Hicks himself, and especially how he and his work figure in the larger sphere of American culture, remain far from settled topics. It can be questioned whether the painter, who was a widely known Quaker minister and supported his family as a decorator of carriages and other objects, was a folk artist at all. Unlike other such figures, he never stopped developing his art. His Peaceable Kingdoms, worked on continuously for over three decades (and some sixty in number), form in effect a singular ever-changing visual diary. Taking Hicks's measure from different perspectives, Sanford Schwartz looks for the first time at ways in which Hicks is part of all nineteenth-century American art and can also be seen as an outsider artist. Schwartz understands the importance of Quakerism in Hicks's life. Yet he puts a new emphasis on the painter's passionate, contradictory character and on the expressiveness of his animal creations. Volatile, antic, or poignant in demeanor, they are shown to have emotional depths that are rarely felt in American nineteenth-century painting of any stripe"--

Book Edward V

Download or read book Edward V written by Michael A. Hicks and published by Tempus Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2003 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward V The Prince in the Tower

Book Color Your Own American Folk Art Paintings

Download or read book Color Your Own American Folk Art Paintings written by Marty Noble and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Add your own colorful touches to 30 meticulously rendered versions of well-known American folk art paintings. These works include Edward Hicks's Peaceable Kingdom of the Branch, Eunice Pinney's The Courtship, and other beloved portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. Colorists of all ages, including would-be artists and Americana enthusiasts, will revel in an engaging combination of art history and activity.

Book Battle of Big Bethel

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. Michael Cobb
  • Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
  • Release : 2013-10-19
  • ISBN : 1611211174
  • Pages : 451 pages

Download or read book Battle of Big Bethel written by J. Michael Cobb and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2013-10-19 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A comprehensive study of the Civil War’s first major battle . . . well leavened with strategic and political context” (Robert E. L. Krick, author of Staff Officers in Gray). Battle of Big Bethel is the first full-length treatment of the small but consequential June 1861 Virginia battle that reshaped perceptions about what lay in store for the divided nation. The successful Confederate defense reinforced the belief most Southerners held that their martial invincibility and protection of home and hearth were divinely inspired. After initial disbelief and shame, the defeat hardened Northern resolution to preserve their sacred Union. The notion began to take hold that, contrary to popular belief, the war would be difficult and protracted—a belief that was cemented in reality the following month on the plains of Manassas. Years in the making, Battle of Big Bethel relies upon letters, diaries, newspapers, reminiscences, official records, and period images—some used for the first time. The authors detail the events leading up to the encounter, survey the personalities as well as the contributions of the participants, set forth a nuanced description of the confusion-ridden field of battle, and elaborate upon its consequences. Here, finally, the story of Big Bethel is colorfully and compellingly brought to life through the words and deeds of a fascinating array of soldiers, civilians, contraband slaves, and politicians whose lives intersected on that fateful day in the early summer of 1861. “The authors do a wonderful job of describing the motivations and mindsets of both the U.S. and Confederate soldiers at the outset of the conflict and handle slavery very effectively throughout.” —Edward L. Ayers, author of The Thin Light of

Book A Wonderful Stroke of Luck

Download or read book A Wonderful Stroke of Luck written by Ann Beattie and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Good Housekeeping Best Book of the Year "Every sentence shines with wit, originality, and sharp observations." --The Boston Globe A razor-sharp, deeply felt novel about the complicated relationship between a charismatic teacher and his students, and the secrets we keep from those we love At a boarding school in New Hampshire, Ben joins the honor society led by Pierre LaVerdere, an enigmatic, brilliant, yet perverse, teacher who instructs his students not only about how to reason, but how to prevaricate. As the years go by, LaVerdere's covert and overt instruction lingers in his students' lives as they seek some sense of purpose or meaning. When Ben feels the pace of his life accelerating and views his intimate relationships as less and less fulfilling, there seems to be a subtext he's not able to access. And what, really, did Bailey Academy teach him? While relationships with his stepmother and sister improve, and a move to upstate New York offers respite from his anxiety about love and work, LaVerdere's reappearance in his life disturbs his equilibrium. Everything he once thought he knew about his teacher--and himself--is called into question. Written by one of our most iconic writers, known for casting a cold eye on her generation's ambivalence and sometimes mistaken ambition, A Wonderful Stroke of Luck is a keenly observed psychological study of a man who alternates between careful driving and hazardous risk taking, as he struggles to incorporate his past into the vertiginous present.

Book The Metropolitan Museum of Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathryn Calley Galitz
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 2016-09-20
  • ISBN : 0847846598
  • Pages : 546 pages

Download or read book The Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Kathryn Calley Galitz and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental new book is the first to celebrate the greatest and most iconic paintings from the encyclopedic collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, one of the largest, most important, and most beloved museums in the world. This impressive volume's broad sweep of material, all from a single museum, makes it at once a universal history of painting and the ideal introduction to the iconic masterworks of this world-renowned institution. More than 1,000 lavish color illustrations and details of 500 masterpiece paintings, created over 5,000 years in cultures across the globe, are presented chronologically from the dawn of civilization to the present. These works represent a grand tour of painting from ancient Egypt and classical antiquity and prized Byzantine and medieval altarpieces, to paintings from Asia, India, Africa and the Americas, and and the greatest European and North American masters. The Metropolitan Museum of Art includes and introduction and illuminating texts about each artwork written specially for this volume by Kathryn Calley Galitz, whose experience as both curator and educator at the Met makes her uniquely qualified. European and American artists include Duccio, El Greco, Raphael, Titian, Botticelli, Bronzino, Caravaggio, Turner, Velázquez, Goya, Rubens, Rembrandt, Brueghel, Vermeer, David, Renior, Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, Degas, Sargent, Homer, Matisse, Picasso, Pollock, Jasper Johns, and Warhol. The artworks are arranged in rough chronological order, without regard to geography or culture, offering a visual timeline of the history of painting, from the earliest examples on pottery jars made over five thousand years ago to canvases on which the paint has barely dried. Freed from the constraints imposed by the physical layout of the Museum, the paintings resonate anew; and this chronological framework reveals unexpected visual affinities among the works. For those wishing to experience the unparalleled breadth and depth of the Met's collection, or study masterpieces of painting from throughout history, this important volume is sure to become a classic cherished by art lovers around the world.

Book Edward Durell Stone

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hicks Stone
  • Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9780847835683
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Edward Durell Stone written by Hicks Stone and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal and authoritative biography of one of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century architecture, written by the architect's son. Architect Edward Durell Stone was both celebrated and scorned, and led a life that was both triumphant and embittered. Among the iconic projects for which Stone is responsible are The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. But a negative reception among the architectural community often accompanied his popular and commercial successes, a double edge that continues to inform his legacy. Author Hicks Stone, Edward Durell Stone's son, not only addresses a body of work that has been largely neglected if not outright misunderstood but also explores a complex, multidimensional, and often turbulent life.

Book Hicks  Tribes  and Dirty Realists

Download or read book Hicks Tribes and Dirty Realists written by Robert Rebein and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Rebein argues that much literary fiction of the 1980s and 90s represents a triumphant, if tortured, return to questions about place and the individual that inspired the works of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Faulkner, and other giants of American literature. Concentrating on the realist bent and regional orientation in contemporary fiction, he discusses in detail the various names by which this fiction has been described, including literary postmodernism, minimalism, Hick Chic, Dirty Realism, ecofeminism, and more. Rebein's clearly written, nuanced interpretations of works by Raymond Carver, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Louise Erdrich, Dorothy Allison, Barbara Kingsolver, E. Annie Proulx, Chris Offut, and others, will appeal to a wide range of readers.

Book The Family of Richard III

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Hicks
  • Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
  • Release : 2015-03-15
  • ISBN : 1445621347
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book The Family of Richard III written by Michael Hicks and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard's family was his making and undoing...

Book Edward Hicks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward Hicks
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1975
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 76 pages

Download or read book Edward Hicks written by Edward Hicks and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: