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Book A History of the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Download or read book A History of the Smithsonian American Art Museum written by Lois Marie Fink and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dedicated to the art of the US, the Smithsonian American Art Museum contains works by more than 7000 artists and is widely regarded as an invaluable resource for the study and preservation of the nation's cultural heritage. This text tells the story of the evolution of the nation's first official art collection.

Book Artists in Their Studios

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  • Author : Liza Kirwin
  • Publisher : Harper Design
  • Release : 2007-05-29
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Artists in Their Studios written by Liza Kirwin and published by Harper Design. This book was released on 2007-05-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs and text profile the lives and studio space of more than seventy-five American artists, spanning the late nineteenth century and the twentieth century.

Book Archives of American Art  Smithsonian Institution

Download or read book Archives of American Art Smithsonian Institution written by Archives of American Art and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book America s Art

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  • Author : Smithsonian American Art Museum
  • Publisher : Abrams Books for Young Readers
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780810990920
  • Pages : 323 pages

Download or read book America s Art written by Smithsonian American Art Museum and published by Abrams Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Smithsonian Q   A  American Art and Artists

Download or read book Smithsonian Q A American Art and Artists written by Tricia Wright and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering topics from the natural to the historical and beyond, the Smithsonian Q & A books are essential for any family reference shelf. Questions and answers are authoritative and accessible. Full–color illustrations and the Q & A format enable users to learn all about their favorite creatures and subjects. SMITHSONIAN Q & A: AMERICAN ART will cover the history of American art and artists from the eighteenth century to the present. The book will encompass the visual arts, including painting, photography, and sculpture, and will feature prominent movements as well as artists from a variety of backgrounds.

Book 1934

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  • Author : Ann Prentice Wagner
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book 1934 written by Ann Prentice Wagner and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates the 75th anniversary of the U.S. Public Works of Art Program, created in 1934 against the backdrop of the Great Depression. The 55 paintings in this volume are a lasting visual record of America at a specific moment in time; a response to an economic situation that is all too familiar

Book National Museum of American Art

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  • Author : National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
  • Publisher : J. Paul Getty Museum
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book National Museum of American Art written by National Museum of American Art (U.S.) and published by J. Paul Getty Museum. This book was released on 1995 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Today the National Museum of American Art has the world's largest collection of works by this country's artists, from colonial limners to the contemporary avant-garde." "This book, with its vast array of full-color illustrations and accompanying text, invites readers to explore the remarkably wide range of the museum's holdings. Rather than simply presenting major works in the collection, the book is organized thematically to reflect the variety of concerns and aesthetic visions that have shaped American art over the past three centuries." "A section titled "People" thus provides an overview of portraiture in America, from the traditional eighteenth-century work of Charles Willson Peale to modern innovators such as Man Ray. "Early America" focuses on the efforts of artists to capture on canvas the broad vistas of the new country and its Native American inhabitants." "In these and the seven other sections of the book, the accompanying texts have been compiled from a wide spectrum of sources: exhibition catalogues, monographs, newspaper and magazine articles. The assortment of anecdotes, brief commentaries by critics and curators, and the artist's own words take the reader off the beaten path of art history while at the same time stimulating further study."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book Graphic Masters

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  • Author : Joann Moser
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book Graphic Masters written by Joann Moser and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graphic Masters celebrates the extraordinary variety and accomplishment of American artists' works on paper. Exceptional watercolors, pastels, and drawings from the 1860s through the 1990s reveal the central importance of works on paper for American artists, both as studies for creations in other media and as finished works of art. Traditionally a more intimate form of expression than painting or sculpture, drawings often reveal greater spontaneity and experimentation. Even as works on paper become larger and more finished, competing in scale with easel paintings, they retain a sense of the artist's hand, the immediacy of a thought made visible. Ranging from Thomas Moran's Yellowstone and Childe Hassam's Appledore to Edward Hopper's river landscape and Charles Burchfield's intense abstractions, the watercolors express a breadth of experience from observation to hallucinatory imagination. Thomas Wilmer Dewing's meticulous portrait of Walt Whitman records not only physical appearance but gives insight into the sitter's personality as well. Vivid images in glowing color by Stuart Davis and William H. Johnson, as well as confident, black-and-white images by William de Kooning and Mel Bochner show the diversity of approaches our most accomplished aritsts have taken in their works on paper. -- from front flap.

Book Art of Protest

Download or read book Art of Protest written by De Nichols and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Keith Haring to Extinction Rebellion, the civil rights movement to Black Lives Matter, what does a revolution look like? Discover the power of words and images in this thought-provoking look at protest art by highly acclaimed artivist De Nichols. From the psychedelic typography used in “Make Love Not War” posters of the '60s to the solitary raised fist, some of the most memorable and striking protest artwork from across the world and throughout history deserves a long, hard look. Readers can explore each piece of art to understand how color, symbolism, technique, and typography play an important role in communication. Guided by activist, lecturer, and speaker De Nichols's powerful narrative and stunningly illustrated by a collaboration of young artists, this volume also has plenty of tips and ideas for creating your own revolutionary designs. This is a fully comprehensive look at the art of protest.

Book Locating American Art

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  • Author : Cynthia Fowler
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-07-05
  • ISBN : 135155980X
  • Pages : 303 pages

Download or read book Locating American Art written by Cynthia Fowler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does museum location shape the interpretation of an art object by critics, curators, art historians, and others? To what extent is the value of a work of art determined by its location? Providing a close examination of individual works of American art in relation to gallery and museum location, this anthology presents case studies of paintings, sculpture, photographs, and other media that explore these questions about the relationship between location and the prescribed meaning of art. It takes an alternate perspective in that it provides in-depth analysis of works of art that are less well known than the usual American art suspects, and in locations outside of art museums in major urban cultural centers. By doing so, the contributors to this volume reveal that such a shift in focus yields an expanded and more complex understanding of American art. Close examinations are given to works located in small and mid-sized art museums throughout the United States, museums that generally do not benefit from the resources afforded by more powerful cultural establishments such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Works of art located at institutions other than art museums are also examined. Although the book primarily focuses on paintings, other media created from the Colonial Period to the present are considered, including material culture and craft. The volume takes an inclusive approach to American art by featuring works created by a diverse group of artists from canonical to lesser-known ones, and provides new insights by highlighting the regional and the local.

Book American Art Annual

Download or read book American Art Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library Journal

Download or read book Library Journal written by Melvil Dewey and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.

Book Between Worlds

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  • Author : Leslie Umberger
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2018-10-02
  • ISBN : 0691182671
  • Pages : 444 pages

Download or read book Between Worlds written by Leslie Umberger and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bill Traylor (ca. 1853-1949) is regarded today as one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century. A black man born into slavery in Alabama, he was an eyewitness to history--the Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, the Great Migration, and the steady rise of African American urban culture in the South. Traylor would not live to see the civil rights movement, but he was among those who laid its foundation. Starting around 1939, Traylor--by then in his late eighties and living on the streets of Montgomery--took up pencil and paintbrush to attest to his existence and point of view. In keeping with this radical step, the paintings and drawings he made are visually striking and politically assertive; they include simple yet powerful distillations of tales and memories as well as spare, vibrantly colored abstractions. When Traylor died, he left behind more than one thousand works of art. In Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor, Leslie Umberger considers more than two hundred artworks to provide the most comprehensive and in-depth study of the artist to date; she examines his life, art, and powerful drive to bear witness through the only means he had, pictures. The author draws on a wealth of historical documents--including federal and state census records, birth and death certificates, slave schedules, and interviews with family members-- to clarify the record of Traylor's personal history and family life. The story of his art opens in the late 1930s, when Traylor first received attention for his pencil drawings on found board, and concludes with the posthumous success of his oeuvre"--

Book Native Americans Today

Download or read book Native Americans Today written by Bruce E. Johansen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging collection of Native American profiles examines these individuals' unique life experiences within the larger context of U.S. history. Native Americans Today: A Biographical Dictionary focuses on the lives of contemporary Native Americans. Such treatments are rare, as most Native American biographies are historical (pre-1900) and cover familiar figures. Profiles collected here are written to be enjoyable as well as instructive, presented as examples of personal storytelling that should be savored not only for their factual content, but also for the humanity they evoke. The book spotlights Native American lives in the United States and Canada, mainly after 1900, though a few older figures are included because their lives evoke strikingly modern themes. The author, an expert on all things Native American, knows (or knew) several of the people in the entries, adding a special vibrancy to the writing. Among those profiled are former U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, activist Eloise Cobell, and controversial political prisoner Leonard Peltier, as well as writers, artists, and musicians. The compilation also includes non-Native Americans whose lives and careers impacted Indian life.

Book American Indian Culture  2 volumes

Download or read book American Indian Culture 2 volumes written by Bruce E. Johansen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable resource provides a comprehensive historical and demographic overview of American Indians along with more than 100 cross-referenced entries on American Indian culture, exploring everything from arts, literature, music, and dance to food, family, housing, and spirituality. American Indian Culture: From Counting Coup to Wampum is organized by cultural form (Arts; Family, Education, and Community; Food; Language and Literature; Media and Popular Culture; Music and Dance; Spirituality; and Transportation and Housing). Examples of topics covered include icons of Native culture, such as pow wows, Indian dancing, and tipi dwellings; Native art forms such as pottery, rock art, sandpainting, silverwork, tattooing, and totem poles; foods such as corn, frybread, and wild rice; and Native Americans in popular culture. The extensive introductory section, breadth of topics, accessibly written text, and range of perspectives from the many contributors make this work a must-have resource for high school and undergraduate audiences.

Book Oral History and Art

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-07-31
  • ISBN : 9781910144633
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Oral History and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oral History and Art: Painting forms part of a series of three books - the other two focus on Photography and Sculpture - drawn from oral history transcripts in the collection of the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Containing complete transcripts of exclusive interviews with Edward Hopper, Bruce Marden, Agnes Martin, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers and Frank Stella - artists whose work has profoundly changed both our understanding of the world and the course of art itself - these texts are essential reading for anyone involved in the study of the creative process. With the immediacy of everyday conversation, the personality of each artist becomes visible as they recount their artistic influences, their working processes, and their personal lives and experiences.