Download or read book Stories and Sketches of Chicago written by James Baird Mcclure and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-16 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stories and Sketches of Chicago written by J. B. McClure and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Stories and Sketches of Chicago: An Interesting, Entertaining, and Instructive Sketch History of the Wonderful City by the Sea About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Stories and Sketches of Chicago written by James Baird McClure and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stories and Sketches of Chicago written by James Baird McClure and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stories and Sketches of Chicago an Interesting Entertaining and Instructive Sketch History of the Wonderful City by the Sea written by J. B. McClure and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-07 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
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.
Download or read book Stories and Sketches of Chicago written by Anonymous and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Stories And Sketches Of Chicago: An Interesting, Entertaining, And Instructive Sketch History Of The Wonderful City "by The Sea."; Pages 93-495 Of Stories And Sketches Of Chicago: An Interesting, Entertaining, And Instructive Sketch History Of The Wonderful City "by The Sea"; James Baird McClure James Baird McClure Rhodes & McClure, 1880 Travel; United States; Midwest; East North Central; Chicago (Ill.); King County (Wash.); Seattle (Wash.); Travel / United States / Midwest / East North Central
Download or read book Stories of Art written by James Elkins and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this intimate history, James Elkins demonstrates that there is - and can never be - only one story of art. He opens up the questions that traditional art history usually avoids.
Download or read book Chicago Sketches written by June Skinner Sawyers and published by Loyola Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... A collection of seventy-two essays...offers a wide ranging glimpse of the people and events that have shaped Chicago's rich past.
Download or read book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon Gent written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chicago Sketches written by Michelle Ende' and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago Sketches is a collection of 23 short stories about the people and places of that city through the years 1960 to 1992. Told in chronilogical order, the author sketches broad strokes of what life and the people of Chicago are all about. It is a romance between the author and her city. Once home to her, Chicago is now seen through the lens of both time and distance, making these short portraits both bittersweet and poignant. The author has taken her experiences and distilled them with time, love, and perspective. It is through this lens that the author lets us look at chance encounters, strange events, ruminations on life, and humorous anecdotes, telling on herself, as well as on those from her past. An excellent, quick read, the stories will resonate with the reader, as he or she finds their own story among these stories. - Michelle Ende'
Download or read book DRAWING ON WALLS written by MATTHEW. BURGESS and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hack written by Dmitry Samarov and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cabdrivers and their yellow taxis are as much a part of the cityscape as the high-rise buildings and the subway. We hail them without thought after a wearying day at the office or an exuberant night on the town. And, undoubtedly, taxi drivers have stories to tell—of farcical local politics, of colorful passengers, of changing neighborhoods and clandestine shortcuts. No one knows a city’s streets—and thus its heart—better than its cabdrivers. And from behind the wheel of his taxi, Dmitry Samarov has seen more of Chicago than most Chicagoans will hope to experience in a lifetime. An artist and painter trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Samarov began driving a cab in 1993 to make ends meet, and he’s been working as a taxi driver ever since. In Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab, he recounts tales that will delight, surprise, and sometimes shock the most seasoned urbanite. We follow Samarov through the rhythms of a typical week, as he waits hours at the garage to pick up a shift, ferries comically drunken passengers between bars, delivers prostitutes to their johns, and inadvertently observes drug deals. There are long waits with other cabbies at O’Hare, vivid portraits of street corners and their regular denizens, amorous Cubs fans celebrating after a game at Wrigley Field, and customers who are pleasantly surprised that Samarov is white—and tell him so. Throughout, Samarov’s own drawings—of his fares, of the taxi garage, and of a variety of Chicago street scenes—accompany his stories. In the grand tradition of Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, Mike Royko, and Studs Terkel, Dmitry Samarov has rendered an entertaining, poignant, and unforgettable vision of Chicago and its people.
Download or read book I Swear I Saw This written by Michael Taussig and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Swear I Saw This records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig’s reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. Taking as a starting point a drawing he made in Medellin in 2006—as well as its caption, “I swear I saw this”—Taussig considers the fieldwork notebook as a type of modernist literature and the place where writers and other creators first work out the imaginative logic of discovery. Notebooks mix the raw material of observation with reverie, juxtaposed, in Taussig’s case, with drawings, watercolors, and newspaper cuttings, which blend the inner and outer worlds in a fashion reminiscent of Brion Gysin and William Burroughs’s surreal cut-up technique. Focusing on the small details and observations that are lost when writers convert their notes into finished pieces, Taussig calls for new ways of seeing and using the notebook as form. Memory emerges as a central motif in I Swear I Saw This as he explores his penchant to inscribe new recollections in the margins or directly over the original entries days or weeks after an event. This palimpsest of afterthoughts leads to ruminations on Freud’s analysis of dreams, Proust’s thoughts on the involuntary workings of memory, and Benjamin’s theories of history—fieldwork, Taussig writes, provokes childhood memories with startling ease. I Swear I Saw This exhibits Taussig’s characteristic verve and intellectual audacity, here combined with a revelatory sense of intimacy. He writes, “drawing is thus a depicting, a hauling, an unraveling, and being impelled toward something or somebody.” Readers will exult in joining Taussig once again as he follows the threads of a tangled skein of inspired associations.
Download or read book Chicago Sketches written by Richard Reeder and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Chicago Sketches," we visit places as diverse as Maxwell Street, Riverview, Wrigley Field, the old Clark Theater, and the National Bohemian Cemetery. We meet the famous-Nelson Algren and Yevgeny Yevtushenko-and the other people who have touched Reeder's life-Bubbie Gussie, Rabbi Mendel, and the Big Klu. We also witness moments in Reeder's life that echo through history-November 4, 1960 and November 22, 1963. Leonid Osseney's vivid illustrations make all these Chicago sketches come even more alive. "From the Foreword by Charles R. Middleton, President, Roosevelt University, Chicago IL: " Many of us carry vignettes of our lives around in our mind's eye and even occasionally pause to expand upon a moment and craft it into a silently remembered story. But most of us, and I confess to being with you in this, don't really have a startling variety of experiences and memories of people. Richard Reeder, in "Chicago Sketches," thankfully does. A good story may start with the people, as these in "Chicago Sketches" always do, but it's their context that adds flavor to the stew. It's important that someone settled in Tulsa or Old Town. It shaped him in that moment of time when you encountered him, and it says something about you that you found him there and not elsewhere. A good story, much less a collection of them like this one, has as another essential ingredient. While people and places give a story life, that life is brought into motion by the storyteller. Mr. Reeder's sensitivity to humanity touches a chord in us and provides sufficient reason to spend some time, however brief, with these people in these places long ago but not so far away. Finally, I have a confession to make. I begin reading a book today just as I did when I was in first grade. I start by looking at all the pictures (if there are any). Pictures are windows into the written text as well as visions beyond it. Leonid Osseny's illustrations in this book are a wonderful example of this. Once these illustrations have captured you, as they did me, the written words seem to take on additional meanings. Enjoy!
Download or read book Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men of Chicago written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Babel written by George Ade and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These little stories and sketches have been rewritten from certain daily contributions to the Chicago record, now the Chicago record-herald."--Pref.
