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Book Flying Leaves and One sheets

    Book Details:
  • Author : Russell D. Earnest
  • Publisher : Oak Knoll Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781584561453
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Flying Leaves and One sheets written by Russell D. Earnest and published by Oak Knoll Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 134 illustrations in Flying Leaves and One-Sheets demonstrate the typographical skills of German-language printers in North America from the mid 1750s to 1876. Selected for graphic appeal, range of subject matter, and historic interest, these broadsides show the attitudes and literary appetites of Pennsylvania Germans as expressed in printed matter. Known for their love of color and decoration, Pennsylvania Germans often hand-illuminated broadsides so that many are classified as fraktur. Flying Leaves and One-Sheets will appeal to readers in Pennsylvania German visual arts, culture, and history."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Pennsylvania German Fraktur and Printed Broadsides

Download or read book Pennsylvania German Fraktur and Printed Broadsides written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pennsylvania German Franktur  sic    Printed Broadsides

Download or read book Pennsylvania German Franktur sic Printed Broadsides written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Drawn with Spirit

Download or read book Drawn with Spirit written by Lisa Minardi and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most beloved forms of American folk art, fraktur is a Germanic tradition of decorated manuscripts and printed documents noted for its use of bold colors and whimsical motifs. This publication makes a landmark contribution to the study of Pennsylvania German fraktur, and offers the most comprehensive study of the topic in over 50 years. The featured objects, most of which have never been published, accompany significant new information about the artists who made these works and the people who owned them. An introductory essay sets the renowned Johnson Collection within the context of collecting and scholarship on Pennsylvania German folk art and then highlights major new discoveries, including connections between fraktur and related examples of furniture and prints. An interview with the collectors offers valuable insights into the formation of this special group of objects, which includes birth and baptismal certificates, bookplates, religious texts, writing samples, house blessings, cutworks, and printed broadsides. The splendid color illustrations reveal schools of artistic and regional influence, giving a nuanced understanding of how artists took inspiration from one another and how designs were transferred to new locations. Detailed catalogue entries include extensive information about each piece as well as complete translations. Exhibition: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA (01.02.-26.04.2015).

Book To the Latest Posterity

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  • Author : Corinne P. Earnest
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780271023687
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book To the Latest Posterity written by Corinne P. Earnest and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To the Latest Posterity is filled with examples of family registers from museum and private collections, many of them never before published, including early handmade work as well as printed registers that were filled in by hand in the nineteenth century. Bringing the art into the twentieth century and beyond, the Earnests discuss the adoption of the art by the Amish, who continue the practice of illuminated family record keeping today."--Jacket.

Book Drawn with Spirit

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  • Author : Lisa Minardi
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 9780300210521
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Drawn with Spirit written by Lisa Minardi and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Drawn with spirit: Pennsylvania German Fraktur from the Joan and Victor Johnson Collection, February 1-April 26, 2015"--Title page verso.

Book A Peculiar Mixture

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  • Author : Jan Stievermann
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2015-06-26
  • ISBN : 0271063009
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book A Peculiar Mixture written by Jan Stievermann and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through innovative interdisciplinary methodologies and fresh avenues of inquiry, the nine essays collected in A Peculiar Mixture endeavor to transform how we understand the bewildering multiplicity and complexity that characterized the experience of German-speaking people in the middle colonies. They explore how the various cultural expressions of German speakers helped them bridge regional, religious, and denominational divides and eventually find a way to partake in America’s emerging national identity. Instead of thinking about early American culture and literature as evolving continuously as a singular entity, the contributions to this volume conceive of it as an ever-shifting and tangled “web of contact zones.” They present a society with a plurality of different native and colonial cultures interacting not only with one another but also with cultures and traditions from outside the colonies, in a “peculiar mixture” of Old World practices and New World influences. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Rosalind J. Beiler, Patrick M. Erben, Cynthia G. Falk, Marie Basile McDaniel, Philip Otterness, Liam Riordan, Matthias Schönhofer, and Marianne S. Wokeck.

Book The Soul of Eve

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  • Author : Helen Aldrich De Kroyft
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1904
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 56 pages

Download or read book The Soul of Eve written by Helen Aldrich De Kroyft and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pennsylvania Germans

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  • Author : Simon J. Bronner
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2017-02-15
  • ISBN : 1421421380
  • Pages : 590 pages

Download or read book Pennsylvania Germans written by Simon J. Bronner and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Pennsylvania German Studies -- PART 1 HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY -- 1. The Old World Background -- 2. To the New World: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 3. Communities and Identities: Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries -- PART 2 CULTURE AND SOCIETY -- 4. The Pennsylvania German Language -- 5. Language Use among Anabaptist Groups -- 6. Religion -- 7. The Amish -- 8. Literature -- 9. Agriculture and Industries -- 10. Architecture and Cultural Landscapes -- 11. Furniture and Decorative Arts -- 12. Fraktur and Visual Culture -- 13. Textiles -- 14. Food and Cooking -- 15. Medicine -- 16. Folklore and Folklife -- 17. Education -- 18. Heritage and Tourism -- 19. Popular Culture and Media -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Color plates follow page

Book The Picture Bible of Ludwig Denig

Download or read book The Picture Bible of Ludwig Denig written by Ludwig Denig and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Citizens in a Strange Land

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  • Author : Hermann Wellenreuther
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2013-08-05
  • ISBN : 0271063599
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Citizens in a Strange Land written by Hermann Wellenreuther and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Citizens in a Strange Land, Hermann Wellenreuther examines the broadsides—printed single sheets—produced by the Pennsylvania German community. These broadsides covered topics ranging from local controversies and politics to devotional poems and hymns. Each one is a product of and reaction to a particular historical setting. To understand them fully, Wellenreuther systematically reconstructs Pennsylvania’s print culture, the material conditions of life, the problems German settlers faced, the demands their communities made on the individual settlers, the complications to be overcome, and the needs to be satisfied. He shows how these broadsides provided advice, projections, and comment on phases of life from cradle to grave.

Book How to Identify Prints

Download or read book How to Identify Prints written by Bamber Gascoigne and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arranged in self-contained sections the book simplifies accurate identification of any printed image. Included are manual methods, and also the mechanical processes that constitute the vast majority of printed images. Essential aspects of printing history and the printmaking craft are covered and examples are given of the identifying features that help to reveal the type of print.

Book The Pennsylvania German Society

Download or read book The Pennsylvania German Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes proceedings, addresses and annual reports.

Book Papers for Birth Dayes

Download or read book Papers for Birth Dayes written by Russell D. Earnest and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius

Download or read book The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius written by Dániel Margócsy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Third Neu-Whitrow Prize (2021) granted by the Commission on Bibliography and Documentation of IUHPS-DHST Additional background information This book provides bibliographic information, ownership records, a detailed worldwide census and a description of the handwritten annotations for all the surviving copies of the 1543 and 1555 editions of Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica. It also offers a groundbreaking historical analysis of how the Fabrica traveled across the globe, and how readers studied, annotated and critiqued its contents from 1543 to 2017. The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius sheds a fresh light on the book’s vibrant reception history and documents how physicians, artists, theologians and collectors filled its pages with copious annotations. It also offers a novel interpretation of how an early anatomical textbook became one of the most coveted rare books for collectors in the 21st century.

Book The Face of a Monster

Download or read book The Face of a Monster written by Patricia Suter and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1816, young Mary Shelley envisioned her famous monster. Fifty years later, a real monster visited a small farm just outside of Philadelphia.

Book Christoph Von Graffenried s Account of the Founding of New Bern

Download or read book Christoph Von Graffenried s Account of the Founding of New Bern written by Christoph von Baron Graffenried and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: