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Book The Thunderbird Remembered

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  • Author : Dorothea Lange
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book The Thunderbird Remembered written by Dorothea Lange and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Thunderbird Remembered

Download or read book The Thunderbird Remembered written by Dorothea Lange and published by Gene Autry Western Heritage. This book was released on 1994 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Glory Remembered

Download or read book Glory Remembered written by Lydia Black and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides extensive information on wooden hats from areas like Kodiak, Bristol Bay, and Norton Sound, as well as the Aleutian Islands.

Book Thunderbird

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  • Author : Sonia Nimr
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2022-11-22
  • ISBN : 1477326952
  • Pages : 93 pages

Download or read book Thunderbird written by Sonia Nimr and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thunderbird trilogy is a fast-paced time-traveling fantasy adventure centered on Noor, a young orphaned Palestinian girl who starts in the present and must go back in time to get four magical bird feathers and save the world. In this second installment, Noor finds herself in the year 1177 in Jerusalem, during the Crusades. With the help of Sabeeka, Zainab, a girl who has the power to become invisible, and her local resistance group, Noor must once again find a feather belonging to the thunderbird before it burns, in order to prevent the world of the djinn from collapsing into the human world. Along the way, Noor helps the resistance group save hundreds of books and manuscripts from being burned. Like the first book in the Thunderbird trilogy, Book Two combines the magical with real events from Palestinian history to take the reader on a wild and adventurous ride through time.

Book Rex Wayland s Fortune  Or  The Secret of the Thunderbird

Download or read book Rex Wayland s Fortune Or The Secret of the Thunderbird written by Hiram Alonzo Stanley and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Unforgettables

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  • Author : Charles C. Eldredge
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2022-11
  • ISBN : 0520385551
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book The Unforgettables written by Charles C. Eldredge and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the past, histories of American art have traditionally highlighted the work of a familiar roster of artists, often white and male. Over time the achievements of others worthy of attention, including numerous women and artists of color, as well as white men, have gone uncelebrated and fallen into obscurity. In this collection of essays, sixty-three scholars from various institutions, specialties, and locales respond to the challenge to nominate one maker deserving remembrance and detail the reasons for their choice. The collection is headed by a preface from editor Charles C. Eldredge, explaining the genesis of the anthology, and an introduction by Dr. Kirsten Pai Buick, promoting the value of recovered reputations and oeuvres in the training of future art experts and audiences"--

Book Remembering Forever

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  • Author : Dallas G. Releford
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2001-08
  • ISBN : 0595195156
  • Pages : 562 pages

Download or read book Remembering Forever written by Dallas G. Releford and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young government agents Mark Peters and Elizabeth Morgan think they are investigating a mad serial killer until they encounter aliens, ghost pirates, a rogue government contractor who has developed a way to enslave people's memories in a computer chip and an robot army out to take over the world. Add a little suspense, mass murder, mystery, young romance and a demanding boss and you have an adventure that you will never forget. Follow these two adventurers into the realm of science fiction like you have never read before.

Book Rights Remembered

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  • Author : Pauline Hillaire
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 0803285787
  • Pages : 574 pages

Download or read book Rights Remembered written by Pauline Hillaire and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rights Remembered is a remarkable historical narrative and autobiography written by esteemed Lummi elder and culture bearer Pauline R. Hillaire, Scälla-Of the Killer Whale. A direct descendant of the immediate postcontact generation of Coast Salish in Washington State, Hillaire combines in her narrative life experiences, Lummi oral traditions preserved and passed on to her, and the written record of relationships between the United States and the indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast to tell the story of settlers, government officials, treaties, reservations, and the colonial relationship between Coast Salish and the white newcomers. Hillaire's autobiography, although written out of frustration with the status of Native peoples in America, is not an expression of anger but rather represents, in her own words, her hope "for greater justice for Indian people in America, and for reconciliation between Indian and non-Indian Americans, based on recognition of the truths of history." Addressed to indigenous and non-Native peoples alike, this is a thoughtful call for understanding and mutual respect between cultures.

Book Branding the American West

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  • Author : Marian Wardle
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2016-02-17
  • ISBN : 0806154128
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Branding the American West written by Marian Wardle and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artists and filmmakers in the early twentieth century reshaped our vision of the American West. In particular, the Taos Society of Artists and the California-based artist Maynard Dixon departed from the legendary depiction of the “Wild West” and fostered new images, or brands, for western art. This volume, illustrated with more than 150 images, examines select paintings and films to demonstrate how these artists both enhanced and contradicted earlier representations of the West. Prior to this period, American art tended to portray the West as a wild frontier with untamed lands and peoples. Renowned artists such as Henry Farny and Frederic Remington set their work in the past, invoking an environment immersed in conflict and violence. This trademark perspective began to change, however, when artists enamored with the Southwest stamped a new imprint on their paintings. The contributors to this volume illuminate the complex ways in which early-twentieth-century artists, as well as filmmakers, evoked a southwestern environment not just suspended in time but also permanent rather than transient. Yet, as the authors also reveal, these artists were not entirely immune to the siren call of the vanishing West, and their portrayal of peaceful yet “exotic” Native Americans was an expansion rather than a dismissal of earlier tropes. Both brands cast a romantic spell on the West, and both have been seared into public consciousness. Branding the American West is published in association with the Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, Utah, and the Stark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas.

Book Locating American Art

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  • Author : Cynthia Fowler
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-07-05
  • ISBN : 1351559818
  • Pages : 316 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 316 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 Dorothea Lange  A Life Beyond Limits

Download or read book Dorothea Lange A Life Beyond Limits written by Linda Gordon and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-10-11 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize and finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography: The definitive biography of a heroic chronicler of America's Depression and one of the twentieth century's greatest photographers. We all know Dorothea Lange's iconic photos—the Migrant Mother holding her child, the shoeless children of the Dust Bowl—but now renowned American historian Linda Gordon brings them to three-dimensional life in this groundbreaking exploration of Lange's transformation into a documentarist. Using Lange's life to anchor a moving social history of twentieth-century America, Gordon masterfully re-creates bohemian San Francisco, the Depression, and the Japanese-American internment camps. Accompanied by more than one hundred images—many of them previously unseen and some formerly suppressed—Gordon has written a sparkling, fast-moving story that testifies to her status as one of the most gifted historians of our time. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; a New York Times Notable Book; New Yorker's A Year's Reading; and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book.

Book New Deal Art in Arizona

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  • Author : Betsy Fahlman
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2016-05-26
  • ISBN : 0816534446
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book New Deal Art in Arizona written by Betsy Fahlman and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arizona’s art history is emblematic of the story of the modern West, and few periods in that history were more significant than the era of the New Deal. From Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams to painters and muralists including Native American Gerald Nailor, the artists working in Arizona under New Deal programs were a notable group whose art served a distinctly public purpose. Their photography, paintings, and sculptures remain significant exemplars of federal art patronage and offer telling lessons positioned at the intersection of community history and culture. Art is a powerful instrument of historical record and cultural construction, and many of the issues captured by the Farm Security Administration photographers remain significant issues today: migratory labor, the economic volatility of the mining industry, tourism, and water usage. Art tells important stories, too, including the work of Japanese American photographer Toyo Miyatake in Arizona’s internment camps, murals by Native American artist Gerald Nailor for the Navajo Nation Council Chamber in Window Rock, and African American themes at Fort Huachuca. Illustrated with 100 black-andwhite photographs and covering a wide range of both media and themes, this fascinating and accessible volume reclaims a richly textured story of Arizona history with potent lessons for today.

Book Thunderbird

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  • Author : Jack McDevitt
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2015-12-01
  • ISBN : 069818534X
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Thunderbird written by Jack McDevitt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nebula Award–winning author of the Alex Benedict novels and the Priscilla Hutchins novels returns to the world of Ancient Shores in a startling and majestic epic. A working stargate dating back more than ten thousand years has been discovered in North Dakota, on a Sioux reservation near Devils Lake. Travel through the gate currently leads to three equally mysterious destinations: (1) an apparently empty garden world, quickly dubbed Eden; (2) a strange maze of underground passageways; or (3) a space station with a view of a galaxy that appears to be the Milky Way. The race to explore and claim the stargate quickly escalates, and those involved divide into opposing camps who view the teleportation technology either as an unprecedented opportunity for scientific research or a disastrous threat to national—if not planetary—security. In the middle of the maelstrom stands Sioux chairman James Walker. One thing is for certain: Questions about what the stargate means for humanity’s role in the galaxy cannot be ignored. Especially since travel through the stargate isn’t necessarily only one way...

Book The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art

Download or read book The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art written by Joan M. Marter and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 3140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.

Book The Day the Thunderbird Cried

Download or read book The Day the Thunderbird Cried written by David L. Israel and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SummaryIn a series of gripping stories the reader accompanies American infantrymen from the invasion of Sicily to final victory in Germany. The focus throughout is personal. The reader shares moments of fear, daring, grief and humor the very human experiences of young men at war.Interwoven with the stories the author addresses the ultimate enigma of World War II. How did Adolf Hitler brainwash 62 million Germans into accepting Nazi ideology and its inevitable consequences?Detailed accounts of the endurance of young GIs during the Battle of the Bulge precede their horrific discovery of the Dachau Concentration Camp. The GIs shocked and angry reactions and the subsequent shooting of SS Concentration Camp guards are vividly recreated from numerous interviews with men who were there.The Day the Thunderbird Cried is a must read for all who believe that those who cant remember the past are doomed to repeat it.Quote:George Santayana

Book Bad Boy from Rosebud

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gary M. Lavergne
  • Publisher : University of North Texas Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 1574410725
  • Pages : 379 pages

Download or read book Bad Boy from Rosebud written by Gary M. Lavergne and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Fact Sheet A chilling account of a serial killer whose cruel & tortuous murders while on parole from the Broomstick Murders changed the third largest criminal justice system in the United States.

Book Bronze Inside and Out

Download or read book Bronze Inside and Out written by Mary Strachan Scriver and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other book that I can think of, Bronze Inside and Out puts a human face on Western art - indeed, all art. It invites us to ponder the very nature of the creative process. From the foreword by Brian W. Dippie, University of Victoria Bronze Inside and Out is a literary biography of sculptor Bob Scriver, written by his wife, Mary Strachan Scriver. Bob Scriver is best known for his work in bronze and for his pivotal role in the rise of "cowboy art." Living and working on the Montana Blackfeet Reservation, Scriver created a bronze foundry, a museum, and a studio - an atelier based on classical methods, but with local Blackfeet artisans. His importance in the still-developing genre of "western art" cannot be overstated. Mary Strachan Scriver lived and worked with Boba Scriver for over a decade and was instrumental in his rise to international acclaim. Working alongside her husband, she became intimately familiar with the man, his work, and his process. Her frank, uncensored, and highly entertaining biography reveals details that give the reader a unique picture of Scriver both as man and as artist. Bronze Inside and Out also provides a fascinating look into the practice of bronze casting, cleverly structuring the story of Bob Scriver's life according to the steps in this complicated and temperamental process.