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Book To Conserve a Legacy

Download or read book To Conserve a Legacy written by Richard J. Powell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major exhibition catalog documenting and discussing a century of art collected by America's historically black colleges and universities. 240 illustrations, 200 in color.

Book To Conserve a Legacy

Download or read book To Conserve a Legacy written by Art Institute of Chicago and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jet

    Jet

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000-03-27
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-03-27 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.

Book Jet

    Jet

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  • Release : 2000-03-27
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-03-27 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.

Book Jet

    Jet

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  • Author :
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  • Release : 2000-03-27
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-03-27 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.

Book Galapagos

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tui De Roy
  • Publisher : Christopher Helm Publishing Company
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9781408108666
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Galapagos written by Tui De Roy and published by Christopher Helm Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gorgeous large-format book is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Charles Darwin Foundation on Galapagos. The book comprises a series of invited essays under the editorship of world-renowned photographer and long-term Galapagos resident, Tui de Roy, who has also provided most of the photographs.

Book Heritage and the Legacy of the Past in Contemporary Britain

Download or read book Heritage and the Legacy of the Past in Contemporary Britain written by Ryan Trimm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together heritage studies and literary studies, this book examines heritage as a ubiquitous trope in contemporary Britain, a seemingly inescapable figure for relations to the past. Inheritance has been an important metaphor for characterizing cultural and political traditions since the 1970s, but one criticized for its conservatism and apparent disinheritance of "new" Britons. Engaging with contemporary literary and cinematic texts, the book interrogates metaphoric resonances: that bestowing past, receiving present, and transmitted bounty are all singular and unified; that transmission between past and present is smooth, despite heritage depending on death; that the past enjoins the present to conserve its legacy into the future. However, heritage offers an alternative to modern market-driven relations, transactions stressing connection only through a momentary exchange, for bequest resembles gift-giving and connects past to present. Consequently, heritage contains competing impulses, subtexts largely unexplored given the trope’s lapse into cliché. The volume charts how these resonances developed, as well as charting more contemporary aspects of heritage: as postmodern image, tourist industry, historic environment, and metaculture. These dimensions develop the trope, moving it from singular focus on continuity with the past to one more oriented around different lines of relation between past, present, and future. Heritage as a trope is explored through a wide range of texts: core accounts of political theory (Locke and Burke); seminal documents within historic conservation; phenomenology and poststructuralism; film and television (Merchant-Ivory, Downton Abbey); and a broad range of contemporary fiction from novelists including Zadie Smith, Julian Barnes, Hilary Mantel, Sarah Waters, Alan Hollinghurst, Peter Ackroyd, and Helen Oyeyemi.

Book Something All Our Own

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  • Author : Grant Hill
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780822333180
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Something All Our Own written by Grant Hill and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grant Hill and experts celebrate and examine the creative expression of African American art and artists.

Book Black Art  A Cultural History  Third   World of Art

Download or read book Black Art A Cultural History Third World of Art written by Richard J. Powell and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study explores the visual representations of Black culture across the globe throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. The African diaspora—a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and Western colonialism—has generated a wide array of artistic achievements, from blues and reggae to the paintings of the pioneering American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner and the music videos of Solange. This study concentrates on how these works, often created during times of major social upheaval and transformation, use Black culture both as a subject and as context. From musings on “the souls of black folk” in late-nineteenth-century art to questions of racial and cultural identities in performance, media, and computer-assisted arts in the twenty-first century, this book examines the philosophical and social forces that have shaped Black presence in modern and contemporary visual culture. Renowned art historian Richard J. Powell presents Black art drawn from across the African diaspora, with examples from the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe. Black Art features artworks executed in a broad range of media, including film, photography, performance art, conceptual art, advertising, and sculpture. Now updated and expanded, this new edition helps to better understand how the first two decades of the twenty-first century have been a transformative moment in which previous assumptions about race and identity have been irrevocably altered, with art providing a useful lens through which to think about these compelling issues.

Book Coral Reef Conservation Legacy Act of 2006

Download or read book Coral Reef Conservation Legacy Act of 2006 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pollock and After

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  • Author : Francis Frascina
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780415228664
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Pollock and After written by Francis Frascina and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition features ten new articles and is fully updated to take account of new critical approaches to post-war American art.

Book African American Art

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  • Author : Smithsonian American Art Museum
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book African American Art written by Smithsonian American Art Museum and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawn entirely from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's rich collection of African American art, the works include paintings by Benny Andrews, Jacob Lawrence, Thornton Dial Sr., Romare Bearden, Alma Thomas, and Lois Mailou Jones, and photographs by Roy DeCarava, Gordon Parks, Roland Freeman, Marilyn Nance, and James Van Der Zee. More than half of the artworks in the exhibition are being shown for the first time"--Publisher's website.

Book Cutting a Figure

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  • Author : Richard J. Powell
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0226677273
  • Pages : 293 pages

Download or read book Cutting a Figure written by Richard J. Powell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining portraits of black people over the past two centuries, Cutting a Figure argues that these images should be viewed as a distinct category of portraiture that differs significantly from depictions of people with other racial and ethnic backgrounds. The difference, Richard Powell contends, lies in the social capital that stems directly from the black subject’s power to subvert dominant racist representations by evincing such traits as self-composure, self-adornment, and self-imagining. Powell forcefully supports this argument with evidence drawn from a survey of nineteenth-century portraits, in-depth case studies of the postwar fashion model Donyale Luna and the contemporary portraitist Barkley L. Hendricks, and insightful analyses of images created since the late 1970s. Along the way, he discusses major artists—such as Frédéric Bazille, John Singer Sargent, James Van Der Zee, and David Hammons—alongside such overlooked producers of black visual culture as the Tonka and Nike corporations. Combining previously unpublished images with scrupulous archival research, Cutting a Figure illuminates the ideological nature of the genre and the centrality of race and cultural identity in understanding modern and contemporary portraiture.

Book Legislative Hearing on S  1514  the Hunting Heritage and Environmental Legacy Preservation  HELP  for Wildlife Act

Download or read book Legislative Hearing on S 1514 the Hunting Heritage and Environmental Legacy Preservation HELP for Wildlife Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Conservation Legacy

Download or read book Conservation Legacy written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Assessing to Conserving Biodiversity

Download or read book From Assessing to Conserving Biodiversity written by Elena Casetta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book features essays written by philosophers, biologists, ecologists and conservation scientists facing the current biodiversity crisis. Despite increasing communication, accelerating policy and management responses, and notwithstanding improving ecosystem assessment and endangered species knowledge, conserving biodiversity continues to be more a concern than an accomplished task. Why is it so?The overexploitation of natural resources by our species is a frequently recognised factor, while the short-term economic interests of governments and stakeholders typically clash with the burdens that implementing conservation actions imply. But this is not the whole story. This book develops a different perspective on the problem by exploring the conceptual challenges and practical defiance posed by conserving biodiversity, namely: on the one hand, the difficulties in defining what biodiversity is and characterizing that “thing” to which the word ‘biodiversity’ refers to; on the other hand, the reasons why assessing biodiversity and putting in place effective conservation actions is arduous.