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Book Art in Chicago

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maggie Taft
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2018-10-10
  • ISBN : 022616831X
  • Pages : 441 pages

Download or read book Art in Chicago written by Maggie Taft and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades now, the story of art in America has been dominated by New York. It gets the majority of attention, the stories of its schools and movements and masterpieces the stuff of pop culture legend. Chicago, on the other hand . . . well, people here just get on with the work of making art. Now that art is getting its due. Art in Chicago is a magisterial account of the long history of Chicago art, from the rupture of the Great Fire in 1871 to the present, Manierre Dawson, László Moholy-Nagy, and Ivan Albright to Chris Ware, Anne Wilson, and Theaster Gates. The first single-volume history of art and artists in Chicago, the book—in recognition of the complexity of the story it tells—doesn’t follow a single continuous trajectory. Rather, it presents an overlapping sequence of interrelated narratives that together tell a full and nuanced, yet wholly accessible history of visual art in the city. From the temptingly blank canvas left by the Fire, we loop back to the 1830s and on up through the 1860s, tracing the beginnings of the city’s institutional and professional art world and community. From there, we travel in chronological order through the decades to the present. Familiar developments—such as the founding of the Art Institute, the Armory Show, and the arrival of the Bauhaus—are given a fresh look, while less well-known aspects of the story, like the contributions of African American artists dating back to the 1860s or the long history of activist art, finally get suitable recognition. The six chapters, each written by an expert in the period, brilliantly mix narrative and image, weaving in oral histories from artists and critics reflecting on their work in the city, and setting new movements and key works in historical context. The final chapter, comprised of interviews and conversations with contemporary artists, brings the story up to the present, offering a look at the vibrant art being created in the city now and addressing ongoing debates about what it means to identify as—or resist identifying as—a Chicago artist today. The result is an unprecedentedly inclusive and rich tapestry, one that reveals Chicago art in all its variety and vigor—and one that will surprise and enlighten even the most dedicated fan of the city’s artistic heritage. Part of the Terra Foundation for American Art’s year-long Art Design Chicago initiative, which will bring major arts events to venues throughout Chicago in 2018, Art in Chicago is a landmark publication, a book that will be the standard account of Chicago art for decades to come. No art fan—regardless of their city—will want to miss it.

Book Biology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Teresa Audesirk
  • Publisher : Pearson Educación
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9789702605386
  • Pages : 462 pages

Download or read book Biology written by Teresa Audesirk and published by Pearson Educación. This book was released on 2001 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For one or two semester courses in Introductory Biology targeting non- and mixed majors. The goal of this text is to provide an engaging and easy to use book with an innovative and interactive media program. It achieves a unique balance in emphasizing concepts without sacrificing scientific accuracy. The new MediaTutor, found at the end of each chapter, integrates the text and media by providing a brief description of the CD or WEB activity and the time requirement for completion. In creating the book and the media package, the authors and Prentice Hall reached out to the biology community - involving educators from around the country to help address the diverse needs of todays students. How do you engage your students and help make biology relevant to them? *NEW - Chapter-opening Case Studies and chapter-ending Case Studies Revisited - Includes Did Dinosaurs Die from Lack of Sunlight? from the chapter on Photosynthesis and Teaching an Old Grain New Tricks from the chapter on Biotechnology. Provides an innovative framework for students to learn and make connections between biological concepts and processes. *Earth Watch/Health Watch essays - Covers biodiversity, ozone depletion/pre

Book Puerto Rican Chicago

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wilfredo Cruz
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2005-02-02
  • ISBN : 1439631549
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Puerto Rican Chicago written by Wilfredo Cruz and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005-02-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puerto Ricans have a long history in Chicago. Beginning in the 1920s, a handful of middle-class Puerto Rican families sent their daughters and sons to study at prestigious universities in the city. While most returned to Puerto Rico, migration to Chicago peaked during the 1950s and 1960s. Enticed by the prospect of a better life for their families and future generations, thousands of Puerto Ricans came to Chicago in search of a brighter tomorrow. They came to Chicago as American citizens, yet still faced rampant discrimination and prejudice. In 1950, there were only 255 Puerto Ricans in Chicago; today, there are over 113,000. Chicago is home to a thriving Puerto Rican community, and its members continue to make important contributions to the political, educational, social, and cultural institutions of Chicago.

Book El Partido Democr  tico de Chile

Download or read book El Partido Democr tico de Chile written by Sergio Grez Toso and published by LOM Ediciones. This book was released on with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro reconstruye minuciosamente la trayectoria de la primera organización política popular chilena, el Partido Democrático, desde su nacimiento en 1887 hasta la instauración de la dictadura de Ibáñez en 1927, período durante el cual alcanzó su máxima influencia antes de iniciar su largo y definitivo ocaso. Presenta una visión de conjunto, a la vez que detallada, de la época más importante de la vida de este partido, ofreciendo explicaciones tanto sobre su desarrollo y auge como sobre su integración al sistema parlamentarista, su creciente corrupción, distanciamiento con los movimientos sociales emergentes en la segunda y tercera década del siglo XX e inevitable decadencia.

Book Agents of Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Noel Malcolm
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2015-08-06
  • ISBN : 019026280X
  • Pages : 815 pages

Download or read book Agents of Empire written by Noel Malcolm and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late sixteenth century, a prominent Albanian named Antonio Bruni composed a revealing document about his home country. Historian Sir Noel Malcolm takes this document as a point of departure to explore the lives of the entire Bruni family, whose members included an archbishop of the Balkans, the captain of the papal flagship at the Battle of Lepanto--at which the Ottomans were turned back in the Eastern Mediterranean--in 1571, and a highly placed interpreter in Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire that fell to the Turks in 1453. The taking of Constantinople had profoundly altered the map of the Mediterranean. By the time of Bruni's document, Albania, largely a Venetian province from 1405 onward, had been absorbed into the Ottoman Empire. Even under the Ottomans, however, this was a world marked by the ferment of the Italian Renaissance. In Agents of Empire, Malcolm uses the collective biography of the Brunis to paint a fascinating and intimate picture of Albania at a moment when it represented the frontier between empires, cultures, and religions. The lives of the polylingual, cosmopolitan Brunis shed new light on the interrelations between the Ottoman and Christian worlds, characterized by both conflict and complex interdependence. The result of years of archival detective work, Agents of Empire brings to life a vibrant moment in European and Ottoman history, challenging our assumptions about their supposed differences. Malcolm's book guides us through the exchanges between East and West, Venetians and the Ottomans, and tells a story of worlds colliding with and transforming one another.

Book Hollywood in Havana

    Book Details:
  • Author : Megan Feeney
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2019-01-11
  • ISBN : 022659372X
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Hollywood in Havana written by Megan Feeney and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-01-11 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the turn of the twentieth century through the late 1950s, Havana was a locus for American movie stars, with glamorous visitors including Errol Flynn, John Wayne, and Marlon Brando. In fact, Hollywood was seemingly everywhere in pre-Castro Havana, with movie theaters three to a block in places, widely circulated silver screen fanzines, and terms like “cowboy” and “gangster” entering Cuban vernacular speech. Hollywood in Havana uses this historical backdrop as the catalyst for a startling question: Did exposure to half a century of Hollywood pave the way for the Cuban Revolution of 1959? Megan Feeney argues that the freedom fighting extolled in American World War II dramas and the rebellious values and behaviors seen in postwar film noir helped condition Cuban audiences to expect and even demand purer forms of Cuban democracy and national sovereignty. At the same time, influential Cuban intellectuals worked to translate Hollywood ethics into revolutionary rhetoric—which, ironically, led to pointed critiques and subversions of the US presence in Cuba. Hollywood in Havana not only expands our notions of how American cinema was internalized around the world—it also broadens our view of the ongoing history of US-Cuban interactions, both cultural and political.

Book A Research Agenda for Gentrification

Download or read book A Research Agenda for Gentrification written by Winifred Curran and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a new theoretical framework for understanding gentrification and displacement, this timely Research Agenda focuses on resistance as the central research area in this subject field. Arguing that the future of gentrification research should focus on accomplishing the end of gentrification, chapters provide practical organizing and policy strategies using international case studies which are rooted in community-based research.

Book Historia Cr  tica de la Literatura Espanola

Download or read book Historia Cr tica de la Literatura Espanola written by José Amador de los Ríos and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Baltasar

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1908
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Baltasar written by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Providential Beginnings

Download or read book Providential Beginnings written by J. Rosalie Hooge and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Novelas Ejemplares

Download or read book Novelas Ejemplares written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by Aris & Phillips Hispanic Class. This book was released on 2013 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miguel de Cervantes is probably the greatest writer of the Spanish Golden Age, whose influence on the Spanish language has been profound. Readers who know Cervantes only as the author of Don Quijote will be surprised and delighted by what they find in the Novelas ejemplares, published in 1613 and whose composition spanned a decade and more preceding their publication. Don Quijote may be the most celebrated novel in western literature, but the Novelas ejemplares are among its most unjustly neglected masterpieces. They consist of twelve long short stories or short novels, each quite unlike the others. The geographical contrast alone could not be sharper, with settings ranging from the Aegean to the Caribbean and from Britain to North Africa. The stories teem with characters drawn from an equally broad social spectrum, from the new, affluent nobility to self-made merchants, feisty women, confidence tricksters, criminals and excluded minorities. Scarcely a contemporary conflict goes unreferenced, scarcely an important European town or city goes unvisited, while many,especially in Spain, play a major role in the economic, social and political context of the stories. Furthermore none of the major fictional genres of Cervantes's time is missing from the rich mix of literary allusion designed to appeal to a well-read, metropolitan audience.The Novelas ejemplares are a narrative tour de force, an exhibition of sophisticated story-telling, daringly original in concept, executed with subtlety and imagination, wide-ranging, entertaining and amusing, to be read for pleasure as well as profit. Taken together, they provide an overview of many of Cervantes's recurring themes - the complexity of human nature and the unpredictability of human behaviour. They provide a series of working models of what happens when people are put under extreme pressure, all viewed from Cervantes's typically ironic standpoint. A modern English translation was not available until the original appearance of the versions that follow, in four volumes, in 1992. Now for the first time all twelve stories are collected in one volume. For the second fully updated edition Barry Ife's authoritative General Introduction has been re-written and more of the important original preliminaries have been edited and translated so that the reader has a greater sense of the context of the 1613 publication. Specifically these are the four aprobaciones the work received and Cervantes's dedication to the Count of Lemos, both translated into English for the first time.

Book The Bondage Breaker Youth Edition

Download or read book The Bondage Breaker Youth Edition written by Neil T. Anderson and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with a fresh new cover and updated content, this bestseller (more than 175,000 copies sold) helps teens live healthy spiritual and emotional lives and discover their authentic identities in Christ. With teens facing new and ever-growing obstacles to Christ-centered living—cyberbullying, sexting, gender confusion, and more—it’s more important than ever that they know how to break the habits and bonds that lead to sin and how to rely on the Holy Spirit to avoid deception. The Bondage Breaker® Youth Edition will equip teens with relevant and biblical teaching to take courage, stand firm, and find ultimate freedom in Christ.

Book Lecciones Cristianas libro del alumno trimestre de primavera 2016  El poder de la fe

Download or read book Lecciones Cristianas libro del alumno trimestre de primavera 2016 El poder de la fe written by Ediberto Lopez and published by Cokesbury. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lecciones Cristianas tiene como proposito ayudar a las personas adultas hispanas a crecer en su comprension de la Biblia y relacion de esta con la vida. Lecciones Cristianas sigue la serie de las Lecciones Biblicas Internacionales. Esta escrito especialmente para las iglesias de habla hispana. Tambien hay un Libro del Maestro que provee sugerencias importantes para la ensenanza de cada leccion, preguntas para discutir y actividades para la clase. Lecciones Cristianas helps Hispanic adults grow in their knowledge of the Bible and how it relates to their lives. Lecciones Cristianas follows the International Lesson Series. The content of this excellent study is biblical and it is written especially for Spanish-speaking churches. The teacher book provides valuable suggestions for teaching the class, discussion questions, and class activities.

Book LIBERATION FROM ADDICTION

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cesar A. Fabiani, MD
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2013-06-12
  • ISBN : 1483630285
  • Pages : 189 pages

Download or read book LIBERATION FROM ADDICTION written by Cesar A. Fabiani, MD and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-12 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberation from stigma is the first step in freeing from addiction. Historical and clinical scientific considerations of alcohol, cocaine and stimulants are reviewed. As an example of stigma, E.O'Neill's master-piece playwright “Long Day's Journey Into Night” is given. Primary, secondary and terciary prevention of addiction with evidence based pharmacological treatment of alcohol, cocaine and other stimulants and opiates addiction is discussed. Especial attention is given to simultaneous and combined pharmacotherapy of addiction and co-occurring disorders. The new Portugal law which decriminalizes addiction and captures liberation of stigma is reviewed. Ending with the movie “Flight” which embraces the concept of freedom from addiction and stigma.

Book Biograf  as de hombres notables de Hispano Am  rica coleccionadas por R  Azpur  a

Download or read book Biograf as de hombres notables de Hispano Am rica coleccionadas por R Azpur a written by Ramón Azpurúa and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Voces de Protesta

Download or read book Voces de Protesta written by Jorge Ramírez and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays and poems focusing on the imbalances between rich and poor and the awful lot of Third World poor.

Book Bajo la sombra del banano

Download or read book Bajo la sombra del banano written by Dr. Estuardo Pensinger and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aquieta tu espíritu y acomódate cada día para un tiempo íntimo, sanador y de reavivamiento con el Señor. Junto con su Biblia y su diario de oración, trae la última ofrenda del Dr. Estuardo Pensinger, Desde la sombra del árbol de plátano, una colección de 365 inspiraciones diarias obtenidas de la experiencia personal y una búsqueda apasionada de la Palabra de Dios. Desde las colinas de Vermont hasta las calles de Argentina, el Dr. Estuardo comparte la fidelidad, el amor y la soberanía de nuestro gran Dios. No es un devocional típico, Desde la sombra del árbol de plátano también contiene momentos de humor y recetas de estrella que harán las delicias de familiares y amigos. Estas lecturas te inspirarán a salir con fe, probar algo nuevo y descansar en el cuidado y la compasión de Dios por ti. Cada tema se desarrolla en detalle, con lecciones y consejos para ayudarte a aplicar la verdad de las Escrituras a tu vida diariamente. Aunque el Dr. Estuardo habla directamente a los líderes de la iglesia a veces, este devocional será una bendición para pastores, misioneros y laicos por igual. A medida que tu espíritu se renueve, desarrollarás la fuerza y la visión para compartir el amor, la verdad y las Buenas Nuevas de Dios con quienes te rodean.