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Book New York Etchings  1905 1949

Download or read book New York Etchings 1905 1949 written by John Sloan and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York Etchings  1905 1949

Download or read book New York Etchings 1905 1949 written by John Sloan and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book John Sloan   New York Etchings  1905 1949

Download or read book John Sloan New York Etchings 1905 1949 written by Helen Farr Sloan and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book John Sloan  New York Etchings  1905 1949   Edited by Helen Farr Sloan

Download or read book John Sloan New York Etchings 1905 1949 Edited by Helen Farr Sloan written by Helen Farr Sloan (ed) and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pennell s New York Etchings

    Book Details:
  • Author : Picker Gallery
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 1980-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780486239132
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book Pennell s New York Etchings written by Picker Gallery and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensitive, impressionistic etchings of New York, 1904-1925. By disciple of Whistler.

Book Great Drawings and Illustrations from Punch  1841 1901

Download or read book Great Drawings and Illustrations from Punch 1841 1901 written by Stanley Appelbaum and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 192 drawings by 25 artists: Phiz, Leech, Tenniel, du Maurier, Sambourne.

Book American Icons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Gaehtgens
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 1996-07-11
  • ISBN : 0892362464
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book American Icons written by Thomas Gaehtgens and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1996-07-11 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American painters and graphic artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries sought inspiration for their work in the uniquely American experience of history and nature. The result was a transformation of the conventional Old World visual language into an indigenous and populist New World syntax. The twelve essays in this volume explore the development of a frontier mythology, a democratic style depicting common people and objects, and an American artistic consciousness and identity. Conceived and written from the perspectives of both cultural and art historians, American Icons initiates an interdisciplinary discussion on the complex relationships between American and European art.

Book Marching to the Canon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Scott Messing
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 1580464386
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Marching to the Canon written by Scott Messing and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marching to the Canon examines the history of Schubert's Marche militaire no.1 from its beginnings, through its many arrangements, to its impact on dance, literature, film, and music. Marche militaire is Franz Schubert's most recognizable and beloved instrumental work. Originally published for piano four hands in 1826, this tuneful march -- Schubert's first of three military marches -- was arranged, adapted, and incorporated into new incarnations over the next two centuries. Its success was due to its chameleonlike ability to cross the still-porous borders between canonic and popular repertories, creating a performance life thatmade deep inroads into dance, literature, and film, and inspired quotations or allusions in other music Marching to the Canon examines the history of Schubert's storied Marche militaire from its modest beginnings as aduet published for domestic consumption to its now-ubiquitous presence. After detailing the composition, publication, and reception of the original march, the book analyzes the impact of transcriptions and arrangements for solo piano, orchestra, band, and other settings. In addition, it considers the ways the march was used symbolically, even manipulated, during the Franco-Prussian War and the two world wars, as well as the diverse creative uses of the piece by significant figures as varied as Willa Cather, Isadora Duncan, Walt Disney, and Igor Stravinsky. This study of the reception and impact of the Marche militaire offers a unique narrative illuminating the world that enshrined this remarkable score as one of the most memorable musical works of the nineteenth century. Scott Messing is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Music at Alma College, and the author of two works available from theUniversity of Rochester Press: Neoclassicism in Music and the two-volume Schubert in the European Imagination.

Book America in Print  1796 1941

Download or read book America in Print 1796 1941 written by Hirschl & Adler Galleries and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cosmopolitan Culture

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bonnie Menes Kahn
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2002-06-07
  • ISBN : 0743244036
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Cosmopolitan Culture written by Bonnie Menes Kahn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-06-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Simon & Schuster, Cosmopolitan Culture is Bonnie Menes Kahn's exploration of the gilt-edged dream of a tolerant city. "The author attempts to identify common features of great cities, past and present. Consequently, the reader is shuttled breathlessly from Babylon to Constantinople to Vienna to New York with brief side junkets. Kahn concludes that common characteristics of the great city meaning and purpose, tolerance, etc.created an environment where outsiders felt welcome to join the cosmopolitan culture and in the process strengthen it." —Library Journal

Book Love for Sale

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Alice Clement
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2006-12-08
  • ISBN : 0807877077
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book Love for Sale written by Elizabeth Alice Clement and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-12-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intense urbanization and industrialization of America's largest city from the turn of the twentieth century to World War II was accompanied by profound shifts in sexual morality, sexual practices, and gender roles. Comparing prostitution and courtship with a new working-class practice of heterosexual barter called "treating," Elizabeth Alice Clement examines changes in sexual morality and sexual and economic practices. Women "treated" when they exchanged sexual favors for dinner and an evening's entertainment or, more tangibly, for stockings, shoes, and other material goods. These "charity girls" created for themselves a moral space between prostitution and courtship that preserved both sexual barter and respectability. Although treating, as a clearly articulated language and identity, began to disappear after the 1920s and 1930s, Clement argues that it still had significant, lasting effects on modern sexual norms. She demonstrates how treating shaped courtship and dating practices, the prevalence and meaning of premarital sex, and America's developing commercial sex industry. Even further, her study illuminates the ways in which sexuality and morality interact and contribute to our understanding of the broader social categories of race, gender, and class.

Book Republic of Dreams

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  • Author : Ross Wetzsteon
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2007-11-01
  • ISBN : 1416589511
  • Pages : 1122 pages

Download or read book Republic of Dreams written by Ross Wetzsteon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the twentieth century was the American century, it can be argued that it was more specifically the New York century, and Greenwich Village was the incubator of every important writer, artist, and political movement of the period. From the century's first decade through the era of beatniks and modern art in the 1950s and '60s, Greenwich Village was the destination for rebellious men and women who flocked there from all over the country to fulfill their artistic, political, and personal dreams. It has been called the most significant square mile in American cultural history, for it holds the story of the rise and fall of American socialism, women's suffrage, and the commercialization of the avant-garde. One Villager went so far as to say that "everything started in the Village except Prohibition," and in the 1940s, the young actress Lucille Ball said, "The Village is the greatest place in the world." What other community could claim a spectrum ranging from Henry James to Marlon Brando, from Marcel Duchamp to Bob Dylan, from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney to Abbie Hoffman? The story of the Village is, in large part, the stories old Villagers have told new Villagers about former Villagers, and to tell its story is in large part to tell its legends. Republic of Dreams presents the remarkable, outrageous, often interrelated biographies of the giants of American journalism, poetry, drama, radical politics, and art who flocked to the Village for nearly half a century, among them Eugene O'Neill, whose plays were first produced by the Provincetown Players on Macdougal Street, for whom Edna St. Vincent Millay also wrote; Jackson Pollock, who moved to the Village from Wyoming in 1930 and was soon part of the group of 8th Street painters who would revolutionize Western painting; E. E. Cummings, who lived for years on Patchin Place, as did Djuna Barnes; Max Eastman, who edited the groundbreaking literary and political journal The Masses, which introduced Freud to the American public and also published Sherwood Anderson, Amy Lowell, Upton Sinclair, Maksim Gorky, and John Reed's reporting on the Russian Revolution. Republic of Dreams is beautifully researched, outspoken, wise, hip, exuberant, a monumental, definitive history that will endure for decades to come.

Book The  new Woman  Revised

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ellen Wiley Todd
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1993-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780520074712
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book The new Woman Revised written by Ellen Wiley Todd and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years between the world wars, Manhattan's Fourteenth Street-Union Square district became a center for commercial, cultural, and political activities, and hence a sensitive barometer of the dramatic social changes of the period. It was here that four urban realist painters--Kenneth Hayes Miller, Reginald Marsh, Raphael Soyer, and Isabel Bishop--placed their images of modern "new women." Bargain stores, cheap movie theaters, pinball arcades, and radical political organizations were the backdrop for the women shoppers, office and store workers, and consumers of mass culture portrayed by these artists. Ellen Wiley Todd deftly interprets the painters' complex images as they were refracted through the gender ideology of the period. This is a work of skillful interdisciplinary scholarship, combining recent insights from feminist art history, gender studies, and social and cultural theory. Drawing on a range of visual and verbal representations as well as biographical and critical texts, Todd balances the historical context surrounding the painters with nuanced analyses of how each artist's image of womanhood contributed to the continual redefining of the "new woman's" relationships to men, family, work, feminism, and sexuality.

Book Encyclopedia of Printing  Photographic  and Photomechanical Processes

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Printing Photographic and Photomechanical Processes written by Luis Nadeau and published by Fredericton, N.B. : Atelier Luis Nadeau, c1989-c1990.. This book was released on 1989 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedia is the culmination of over 20 years of research on printing, photographic and photomechanical processes. It seeks to clarify the confusion which has resulted from the invention of several hundred such processes. Name any one of them then ask the following questions: what is it ? Who invented it ? When ? Where do you go to find full technical details about it ? This encyclopedia, with over 1,5000 entries and 5,500 references in six languages, provides the answers.

Book City People

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gunther Barth
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN : 9780195031942
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book City People written by Gunther Barth and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1982 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explains the parallel development of urbanization and modernization in late nineteenth-century American society, demonstrating how the successful features of big-city life spread across the country and transformed towns all over America.

Book Slumming

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chad Heap
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2008-11-15
  • ISBN : 0226322459
  • Pages : 433 pages

Download or read book Slumming written by Chad Heap and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During Prohibition, “Harlem was the ‘in’ place to go for music and booze,” recalled the African American chanteuse Bricktop. “Every night the limousines pulled up to the corner,” and out spilled affluent whites, looking for a good time, great jazz, and the unmatchable thrill of doing something disreputable. That is the indelible public image of slumming, but as Chad Heap reveals in this fascinating history, the reality is that slumming was far more widespread—and important—than such nostalgia-tinged recollections would lead us to believe. From its appearance as a “fashionable dissipation” centered on the immigrant and working-class districts of 1880s New York through its spread to Chicago and into the 1930s nightspots frequented by lesbians and gay men, Slumming charts the development of this popular pastime, demonstrating how its moralizing origins were soon outstripped by the artistic, racial, and sexual adventuring that typified Jazz-Age America. Vividly recreating the allure of storied neighborhoods such as Greenwich Village and Bronzeville, with their bohemian tearooms, rent parties, and “black and tan” cabarets, Heap plumbs the complicated mix of curiosity and desire that drew respectable white urbanites to venture into previously off-limits locales. And while he doesn’t ignore the role of exploitation and voyeurism in slumming—or the resistance it often provoked—he argues that the relatively uninhibited mingling it promoted across bounds of race and class helped to dramatically recast the racial and sexual landscape of burgeoning U.S. cities. Packed with stories of late-night dance, drink, and sexual exploration—and shot through with a deep understanding of cities and the habits of urban life—Slumming revives an era that is long gone, but whose effects are still felt powerfully today.

Book The Art makers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Russell Lynes
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 1982-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780486242392
  • Pages : 552 pages

Download or read book The Art makers written by Russell Lynes and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eakins, Hunt, French, Morse, Trumbull, et al. and their struggle to make art respectable in 19th-century America. 211 illus.