Download or read book Portraits of primitives written by Susan Debra Blum and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnicity is a highly politicized issue in contemporary China. Twentieth-century nation-building has been intimately involved with classification of ChinaOs fifty-five ethnic minorities and with fostering harmony and unity among nationalities. Officially sanctioned social science classifies the majority group, the so-called Han, at the pinnacle of modernization and civilization and most other groups as Oprimitive.O In post-socialist China, popular conceptions of self, person, and nation intersect with political and scholarly concerns with identity, sometimes contradicting them and sometimes reinforcing them. In Portraits of OPrimitives, O Susan D. Blum explores how Han in the city of Kunming, in southwest China, regard ethnic minorities and, by extension, themselves. She sketches Oportraits, O or cognitive prototypes, of ethnic groups in a variety of contexts, explaining the perceived visibility of each group (which almost never correlates with size of population). Ideas of OHannessO can be understood in part through Han desire to identify unique characteristics in ethnic minorities and also through Han celebration of the differences that distance minorities. The book considers questions of identity, alterity, and self in the context of a complex nation-state, employing methods from linguistic anthropology and psychological anthropology, as well as other forms of cultural analysis. Providing nuanced views of relationships among political, scholarly, and popular models of identity, this book will be an invaluable guide for those working in China studies, anthropology, and ethnic studies.
Download or read book Bronx Primitive written by Kate Simon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-08-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As an account of growing up female, it is a fit companion piece to Mary McCarthy's classic Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood."—Le Anne Schreiber, The New York Times.
Download or read book Primitive Photography written by Alan Greene and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primitive Photography considers the hand-made photographic process in its entirety, showing the reader how to make box-cameras, lenses, paper negatives and salt prints, using inexpensive tools and materials found in most hardware and art-supply stores. Step-by-step procedures are presented alongside theoretical explanations and historical background. Streamlined calotype procedures are demonstrated, featuring different paper negative processes and overlooked, developing-out printing methods. Primitive Photography combines the simplicity of pinhole photography, the handmade quality of alternative processes, and the precision of large-format. For those seeking alternatives to commercially prepared material as well as digital photography, it provides the instructions for creating the entire photographic process from the ground up. Given its scope and treatment of the photographic process as a whole, this may be the first book of its kind to appear in over a century.
Download or read book Some American Primitives written by Clara Endicott Sears and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Passion for Primitives written by Franklin Schmidt and published by Schiffer Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primitive, rustic, one-of-a-kind furnishings are wildly popular with a wide range of homeowners and professional decorators. Passion for Primitives, with more than 200 lush and stunning photographs, depicts the unpretentious honesty of pieces that come from the imaginations and hearts of the untrained artisans who created them. These furnishings, accent pieces, rustic architectural and structural elements, and displays of country collectibles and folk art are iconic Americana. This book unveils a legacy that is not only intrinsic to our historic design tradition, but is newly flourishing throughout the country. Passion for Primitives is a photographic tour of private homes throughout the U.S., ranging from country simple to modern. It is also a guide to designing with primitives that gives readers an invaluable tool for understanding the range of possibilities in decorating-an ideal book for decorators, designers, architects, and homeowners.
Download or read book American Primitive Portraits of the 19th Century written by Childs Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1970* with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Primitive Painting written by Jean Lipman and published by London ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1942 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Masters of Popular Painting written by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of 20th Century Architecture is a wide ranging and authoritative coverage of the whole spectrum of architecture and urban planning in the 20th century, and of leading architects and engineers the world over. It is fully cross-referenced and indexed, with key biographical references for further reading.
Download or read book American Children 1700 1860 written by Harry Stone Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ten Primitives in the James E Roberts Collection of Paintings written by John Herron Art Institute and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Primitives written by V. Vale and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An anthropological inquiry into ... the increasingly popular revival of ancient human decorations practices such as symbolic/deeply personal tattooing, multiple piercings, and ritual scarification"--Back cover.
Download or read book Modern Primitives Masters of Na ve Painting written by Oto Bihalji-Merin and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donated by Sydney Harris.
Download or read book 101 Masterpieces of American Primitive Painting written by Edgar William Garbisch and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entirely new edition of the book originally published in 1961 reproduces in magnificent color on fine coated stock all the paintings in the exhibition ,"101 Masterpieces of American Primitive Painting," from the world renowned collection of Col. Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, currently being shown in major museums of the United States and Europe. The paintings are by known and unknown artists who were artisans, house and sign painters, farmers, frontiers-men, itinerant portraitists. The earliest were painted about 1710, the latest in the last quarter of the 19th century; some were painted on canvas or wood, others on copper, zinc, bed ticking, window shades, or paper--whatever material was on hand. Fresh, spontaneous records of America's past, they present family scenes, land and naval battles, Indian wars, patriotic events, life on the farm, religious subjects, and, explicitly or implicitly, the dreams and aspirations of the American people. "Our primitives have a particular significance," writes Mr. Walker. "They mirror vividly the life, the customs, and the general appearance of our ancestors and of the world in which they lived. American primitive paintings are beautiful in themselves, inventive in their linear patterns, decorative in their pure and simple colors.... From their (the artists') honesty and integrity resulted an original, truly American style, a style beautifully revealed in the 101 masterpieces of American primitive painting." 101 Masterpieces of American Primitive Painting is a treasury of America's past. These unsophisticated and colorful paintings are a precious and fascinating part of our national heritage.
Download or read book Primitives and Old Master Paintings Part One written by Parke-Bernet Galleries and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bronx Primitive written by Kate Simon and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1983 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As an account of growing up female, it is a fit companion piece to Mary McCarthy's classic Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood."-Le Anne Schreiber, The New York Times.
Download or read book American Primitives written by Newark Museum and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Primitives to Primates written by David Van Reybrouck and published by Sidestone Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do our images about early hominids come from? In this fascinating in-depth study, David Van Reybrouck demonstrates how input from ethnography and primatology has deeply influenced our visions about the past from the 19th century to this day - often far beyond the available evidence. Victorian scholars were keen to look at contemporary Australian and Tasmanian aboriginals to understand the enigmatic Neanderthal fossils. Likewise, today's primatologists debate to what extent bonobos, baboons or chimps may be regarded as stand-ins for early human ancestors. The belief that the contemporary world provides 'living links' still goes strong. Such primate models, Van Reybrouck argues, continue the highly problematic 'comparative method' of the Victorian times. He goes on to show how the field of ethnoarchaeology has succeeded in circumventing the major pitfalls of such analogical reasoning.A truly interdisciplinary study, this work shows how scholars working in different fields can effectively improve their methods for interpreting the deep past by understanding the historical challenges of adjacent disciplines.Overviewing two centuries of intellectual debate in fields as diverse as archaeology, ethnography and primatology, Van Reybrouck's book is one long plea for trying to understand the past on its own terms, rather than as facile projections from the present.David Van Reybrouck (Bruges, 1971) was trained as an archaeologist at the universities of Leuven, Cambridge and Leiden. Before becoming a highly successful literary author (The Plague, Mission, Congo...), he worked as a historian of ideas. For more than twelve years, he was co-editor of Archaeological Dialogues. In 2011-12, he held the prestigious Cleveringa Chair at the University of Leiden.
