American Modern

Author : Thomas Obrien
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781683354260

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American Modern by Thomas Obrien Pdf

“One of those designers whose interior and furniture designs look discovered, not created . . . both comfortable and exquisite, calm and eclectic.” —Apartment Therapy Designer and merchant, collector and tastemaker, Thomas O’Brien has made a career of translating cool notions of modernism into an easy and generous array of modern styles that anyone can attain. Now he introduces readers to a range of those styles—from casual to formal, vintage to urban—alongside stunning photography and charming design stories. O’Brien carefully describes the design process of his chosen projects, including a downtown New York City loft, a traditional Connecticut estate, and a converted schoolhouse in eastern Long Island. Each home explores a view on the modern design spectrum he has created, as well as the individual choices that make the design unique and its mix essentially American. He explains not only what was at work to create a given style, but how readers can import those practices to their own homes and personal design sensibilities. Important design principles such as architectural authenticity, color relationships, correctness of scale, and informed collecting are threaded through a practical narrative that reads like a master class in interior design. American Modern is an inspiring design volume that will redefine the way readers think about modern interiors. “O’Brien carefully describes the design process of his chosen projects. Beautiful imagery and a unique layout describe his approach to design in a new and innovative way.” —LIFEMSTYLE “It’s like getting a glimpse into the studio paintings of a great master . . . I especially love how all of his spaces feel so gender neutral, the perfect balance.” —Cottage Farm

Author : Victorino Tejera
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0847683109

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American Modern by Victorino Tejera Pdf

Written in the American tradition, American Modern: The Path Not Taken describes how four major American thinkers practiced philosophy non-reductively by incorporating the arts and other human activities. Tejera provides a detailed analysis of Peirce, Dewey, Santayana, and Buchler, showing that the importance they placed on the human can cure what is missing in recent philosophy. American Modern will interest philosophers, historians of philosophy, and scholars of American intellectual history.

Author : Patricio del Real,Helen Gyger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136234415

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Latin American Modern Architectures by Patricio del Real,Helen Gyger Pdf

Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the region’s rich and varied architecture. It will also introduce you to major projects that have not been written about in English. A foreword by historian Kenneth Frampton sets the stage for essays on well-known architects, such as Lucio Costa and Félix Candela, which will show you unfamiliar aspects of their work, and for essays on the work of little-known figures, such as Uruguayan architect Carlos Gómez Gavazzo and Peruvian architect and politician Fernando Belaúnde Terry. Covering urban and territorial histories from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, along with detailed building analyses, this book is your best source for historical and critical essays on a sampling of Latin America's diverse architecture, providing much-needed information on key case studies. Contributors include Noemí Adagio, Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Luis Castañeda, Viviana d’Auria, George F. Flaherty, María González Pendás, Cristina López Uribe, Hugo Mondragón López, Jorge Nudelman Blejwas, Hugo Palmarola Sagredo, Gaia Piccarolo, Claudia Shmidt, Daniel Talesnik, and Paulo Tavares.

Author : James Thacher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1817
Category : Medical colleges
ISBN : CHI:092025680

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The American Modern Practice by James Thacher Pdf

Author : Adrienne Munich,Melissa Bradshaw
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813533562

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Amy Lowell, American Modern by Adrienne Munich,Melissa Bradshaw Pdf

A collection of essays that explore the influence, work, and legacy of Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Amy Lowell.

Author : Patrick Frank
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300133332

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Readings in Latin American Modern Art by Patrick Frank Pdf

This important and welcome volume is the first English-language anthology of writings on Latin American modern art of the twentieth century. The book includes some fifty seminal essays and documents—including statements, interviews, and manifestoes by artists—that encompass the broad diversity of this emerging field. Many of these materials are difficult to access and some are translated here for the first time. Together the selections explore the breadth and depth of Latin American modern art as well as its distinctive evolution apart from American and European art history. Included in this collection are fascinating ideas and insights on the impact of the avant-garde in the 1920s, the Mexican mural movement, Surrealism and other fantasy-based styles, modern architecture, geometric and optical art, concrete and neo-concrete art, and political conceptualism. For students and scholars of Latin American art, the volume offers an invaluable collection of primary and secondary sources.

Author : Esther Adler ,Kathy Curry
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870708527

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American Modern: Hopper to O'Keeffe by Esther Adler ,Kathy Curry Pdf

The Museum of Modern Art is known for its prescient focus on the avant-garde art of Europe, but in the first half of the twentieth century it was also acquiring work by Stuart Davis, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, Alfred Stieglitz, and other, less well-known American artists whose work sometimes fits awkwardly under the avant garde umbrella. American Modern presents a fresh look at MoMA’s holdings of American art from that period. The still lifes, portraits, and urban, rural, and industrial landscapes vary in style, approach, and medium: melancholy images by Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth bump against the eccentric landscapes of Charles Burchfield and the Jazz Age sculpture of Elie Nadelman. Yet a distinct sensibility emerges, revealing a side of the Museum that may surprise a good part of its audience and throwing light on the cultural preoccupations of the rapidly changing American society of the day.

Author : Helen Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134881833

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Dance, Modernity and Culture by Helen Thomas Pdf

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Sharon Corwin,Jessica May,Terri Weissman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520265629

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American Modern by Sharon Corwin,Jessica May,Terri Weissman Pdf

This volume to the exhibition of the same name, explores the reinvention of documentary photography in the 1930s, focusing on the work of three iconic figures: Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, and Margaret Bourke-White.

Author : Anne Monahan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300243307

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Horace Pippin, American Modern by Anne Monahan Pdf

This nuanced reassessment transforms our understanding of Horace Pippin, casting the artist and his celebrated paintings as more complex than has previously been recognized

Author : Isa Partsch-Bergsohn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134358144

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Modern Dance in Germany and the United States by Isa Partsch-Bergsohn Pdf

First Published in 1995. In Modern Dance in Germany and the United States: Crosscurrents and Influences Isa Partsch­Bergsohn discusses the phenomenon of the modem dance movement between 1902 and 1986 in an international context, focussing on its beginnings in Europe and its philosophy as formulated by the pioneers Dalcroze, Laban, Wigman and Jooss. The author traces the effects the Third Reich had on these artists, and shows the influence these key choreographers had on the developing American modem dance movement through the postwar years, concentrating in particular on Kurt Jooss and his Tanztheater. When America took the lead in modem dance innovation during the sixties, artists such as Martha Graham, Jose Limon, Paul Taylor, Alvin Ailey and Alwin Nikolais overwhelmed European audiences. Subsequently, the artists of the New German Tanztheater revitalized German theatre traditions by blending new content with some of the American contemporary dance techniques. Although the history of modem dance in these two countries is closely linked, the author describes how each country has kept its own unique and distinctive style.

Author : Peggy Tully
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1616891092

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Modern American Housing by Peggy Tully Pdf

Modern American Housing brings together the most enlightened thinkers from the worlds of architecture, social practice, and real estate development to present the latest developments in the design and construction of new housing stock in re-urbanizing cities throughout the United States. New housing is grouped into three sections—housing towers, reused historical structures, and urban infill—and documented with photographs, pre-construction renderings, floor plans, and maps indicating location in urban settings. An accompanying essay and a discussion with urban planners, architects, and policymakers round out this fresh look at the past and future of the American house.

Author : Julia L. Foulkes
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0807862029

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Modern Bodies by Julia L. Foulkes Pdf

In 1930, dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of "dance as an art of and from America." Dancers such as Doris Humphrey, Ted Shawn, Katherine Dunham, and Helen Tamiris joined Graham in creating a new form of dance, and, like other modernists, they experimented with and argued over their aesthetic innovations, to which they assigned great meaning. Their innovations, however, went beyond aesthetics. While modern dancers devised new ways of moving bodies in accordance with many modernist principles, their artistry was indelibly shaped by their place in society. Modern dance was distinct from other artistic genres in terms of the people it attracted: white women (many of whom were Jewish), gay men, and African American men and women. Women held leading roles in the development of modern dance on stage and off; gay men recast the effeminacy often associated with dance into a hardened, heroic, American athleticism; and African Americans contributed elements of social, African, and Caribbean dance, even as their undervalued role defined the limits of modern dancers' communal visions. Through their art, modern dancers challenged conventional roles and images of gender, sexuality, race, class, and regionalism with a view of American democracy that was confrontational and participatory, authorial and populist. Modern Bodies exposes the social dynamics that shaped American modernism and moved modern dance to the edges of society, a place both provocative and perilous.

Author : Arnold Dashefsky,Ira M. Sheskin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319461229

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American Jewish Year Book 2016 by Arnold Dashefsky,Ira M. Sheskin Pdf

The American Jewish Year Book, now in its 116th year, is the annual record of the North American Jewish communities and provides insight into their major trends. Part I presents a forum on the Pew Survey, “A Portrait of American Orthodox Jews.” Part II begins with Chapter 13, "The Jewish Family." Chapter 14 examines “American Jews and the International Arena (April 1, 2015 – April 15, 2016), which focuses on US–Israel Relations. Chapters 15-17 analyze the demography and geography of the US, Canadian, and world Jewish populations. In Part III, Chapter 18 provides lists of Jewish institutions, including federations, community centers, social service agencies, national organizations, synagogues, Hillels, day schools, camps, museums, and Israeli consulates. In the final chapters, Chapter 19 presents national and local Jewish periodicals and broadcast media; Chapter 20 provides academic resources, including Jewish Studies programs, books, articles, websites, and research libraries; and Chapter 21 presents lists of major events in the past year, Jewish honorees, and obituaries. An invaluable record of Jewish life, the American Jewish Year Book illuminates contemporary issues with insight and breadth. It is a window into a complex and ever-changing world. Deborah Dash Moore, Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Judaic Studies, and Director Emerita of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan A century from now and more, the stately volumes of the American Jewish Year Book will stand as the authoritative record of Jewish life since 1900. For anyone interested in tracing the long-term evolution of Jewish social, political, religious, and cultural trends from an objective yet passionately Jewish perspective, there simply is no substitute. Lawrence Grossman, American Jewish Year Book Editor (1999-2008) and Contributor (1988-2015)

Author : Paul R. McAleer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781855662971

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Hybrid Identity and the Utopian Impulse in the Postmodern Spanish-American Comic Novel by Paul R. McAleer Pdf

The author examines the role of comedy in the novels of four key postmodern Spanish-American writers: Gustavo Sainz, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Jaime Bayly and Fernando Vallejo.