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Book Paul Manship

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  • Author : Paul Manship
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1985
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  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Paul Manship written by Paul Manship and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Archaism  Modernism  and the Art of Paul Manship

Download or read book Archaism Modernism and the Art of Paul Manship written by Susan Rather and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaism, an international artistic phenomenon from early in the twentieth century through the 1930s, receives its first sustained analysis in this book. The distinctive formal and technical conventions of archaic art, especially Greek art, particularly affected sculptors—some frankly modernist, others staunchly conservative, and a few who, like American Paul Manship, negotiated the distance between tradition and modernity. Susan Rather considers the theory, practice, and criticism of early twentieth-century sculpture in order to reveal the changing meaning and significance of the archaic in the modern world. To this end—and against the background of Manship’s career—she explores such topics as the archaeological resources for archaism, the classification of the non-Western art of India as archaic, the interest of sculptors in modem dance (Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis), and the changing critical perception of archaism. Rather rejects the prevailing conception of archaism as a sterile and superficial academic style to argue its initial importance as a modernist mode of expression. The early practitioners of archaism—including Aristide Maillol, André Derain, and Constantin Brancusi—renounced the rhetorical excess, overrefined naturalism, and indirect techniques of late nineteenth-century sculpture in favor of nonnarrative, stylized and directly carved works, for which archaic Greek art offered an important example. Their position found implicit support in the contemporaneous theoretical writings of Emmanuel Löwy, Wilhelm Worringer, and Adolf von Hildebrand. The perceived relationship between archaic art and tradition ultimately compromised the modernist authority of archaism and made possible its absorption by academic and reactionary forces during the 1910s. By the 1920s, Paul Manship was identified with archaism, which had become an important element in the aesthetic of public sculpture of both democratic and totalitarian societies. Sculptors often employed archaizing stylizations as ends in themselves and with the intent of evoking the foundations of a classical art diminished in potency by its ubiquity and obsolescence. Such stylistic archaism was not an empty formal exercise but an urgent affirmation of traditional values under siege. Concurrently, archaism entered the mainstream of fashionable modernity as an ingredient in the popular and commercial style known as Art Deco. Both developments fueled the condemnation of archaism—and of Manship, its most visible exemplar—by the avant-garde. Rather’s exploration of the critical debate over archaism, finally, illuminates the uncertain relationship to modernism on the part of many critics and highlights the problematic positions of sculpture in the modernist discourse.

Book Paul Howard Manship  an Intimate View

Download or read book Paul Howard Manship an Intimate View written by Minnesota Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Paul Howard Manship

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  • Author : Minnesota Museum of Art
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  • Release : 1972
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  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book Paul Howard Manship written by Minnesota Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Drawings by Paul Manship

Download or read book Drawings by Paul Manship written by Carol Hynning Smith and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art  A catalogue of works by artists born between 1865 and 1885

Download or read book American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art A catalogue of works by artists born between 1865 and 1885 written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1999 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume One: This volume catalogues the distinguished and comprehensive collection of approximately 400 works of American sculpture by artists born before 1865. This publication includes an introduction on the history of the collection's formation, particularly in the context of the Museum's early years of acquisitions, and discusses the outstanding personalities involved. --Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Book Oral History Guide

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  • Author : Microfilming Corporation of America
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Oral History Guide written by Microfilming Corporation of America and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York Art Deco

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  • Author : Anthony W. Robins
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2017-04-20
  • ISBN : 1438463987
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book New York Art Deco written by Anthony W. Robins and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a 2017–2018 New York City Book Award presented by the New York Society Library Of all the world's great cities, perhaps none is so defined by its Art Deco architecture as New York. Lively and informative, New York Art Deco leads readers step-by-step past the monuments of the 1920s and '30s that recast New York as the world's modern metropolis. Anthony W. Robins, New York's best-known Art Deco guide, includes an introductory essay describing the Art Deco phenomenon, followed by eleven walking tour itineraries in Manhattan—each accompanied by a map designed by legendary New York cartographer John Tauranac—and a survey of Deco sites across the four other boroughs. Also included is a photo gallery of sixteen color plates by nationally acclaimed Art Deco photographer Randy Juster. In New York Art Deco, Robins has distilled thirty years' worth of experience into a guidebook for all to enjoy at their own pace.

Book Oral History Guide

Download or read book Oral History Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spotlight on the Child

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  • Author : Roger L. Bedard
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 1989-01-20
  • ISBN : 0313368325
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book Spotlight on the Child written by Roger L. Bedard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1989-01-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although children's theatre has been a part of American culture from early times, historians have not always included it in the documentation of our theatrical heritage. Sometimes more the product of the educator and the social worker than the producer or the theatre artist, theatre with and for young people has been neglected in traditional theatre history studies; yet as early as 1792 Charles Stearns began creating his plays and dialogues for school children. The traditions and success of eighteenth-century school drama inspired social workers to explore similar activities in their playground and settlement house work, and at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, professional producers began experimenting more vigorously with the commercial possibilities of children as audience. This book is a collection of essays by leading authorities in the field on various aspects of the historical development of children's theatre in the United States. The discussions focus on the marked differences that have occurred from group to group and examine the ways in which children's theatre began to find definition, as theorists and writers such as Winifred Ward and Charlotte Chorpenning strove to articulate the differences between the child as participant in creative drama and the child as audience member. The introduction provides a review of early concepts and the evolution of present-day thought, and the essays illuminate facets of the rich and varied history of American theatre with and for children. This trailblazing study will serve as the beginning of a fuller understanding of the field and a challenge to others to document the missing pieces.

Book A Tyrannous Eye

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  • Author : Pearl Amelia McHaney
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2014-07-17
  • ISBN : 1626744629
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book A Tyrannous Eye written by Pearl Amelia McHaney and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty’s Nonfiction and Photographs is the first book-length study of Eudora Welty’s full range of achievements in nonfiction and photography. A preeminent Welty scholar, Pearl Amelia McHaney offers clear-eyed and complex assessments of Welty’s journalism, book reviews, letters, essays, autobiography, and photographs. Each chapter focuses on one genre, filling in gaps left by previous books. With keen skills of observation, finely tuned senses, intellect, wit, awareness of audience, and modesty, Welty applied her genius in all that she did, holding a tough line on truth, breaking through “the veil of indifference to each other’s presence, each other’s wonder, each other’s plight.” McHaney’s study brings critical attention to the under-evaluated genres of Welty’s work and discusses the purposeful use of arguments, examples, and styles, demonstrating that Welty pursued her craft to a high standard across genres with a greater awareness of context than she admitted in her numerous interviews. Welty consistently dared new styles, new audiences, and new publishing venues in order to express her ideas to their fullest. It is “serious daring,” as she wrote in One Writer’s Beginnings, that makes for great writing. In “Place in Fiction,” Welty asks, “How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk—experiment—is a considerable part of the joy of doing.”

Book The Card Catalog of the Oral History Collections of the Archives of American Art

Download or read book The Card Catalog of the Oral History Collections of the Archives of American Art written by Archives of American Art and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Readers  Guide to Periodical Literature

Download or read book Readers Guide to Periodical Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Official Index to The Times

Download or read book The Official Index to The Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Official Index to the Times

Download or read book Official Index to the Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indexes the Times, Sunday times and magazine, Times literary supplement, Times educational supplement, Times educational supplement Scotland, and the Times higher education supplement.

Book Minnesota 150

Download or read book Minnesota 150 written by Kate Roberts and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fabulous showcase of individuals, events, and inventions that have made Minnesota.

Book New York Magazine

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  • Release : 1991-08-26
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1991-08-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.