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Paul Strand by Sarah Greenough,Paul Strand,National Gallery of Art (U.S.) Pdf
To honor the 100th birthday of America's internationally preeminent photographer, Paul Strand, the National Gallery of Art presents a collection of his most profound photographs and outstanding images demonstrating Strand's purity of vision. 113 black-and-white photographs, 30 duotones.
Robert Hughes begins where American art itself began, with the Native Americans and the first Spanish invaders in the Southwest; he ends with the art of today. In between, in a scholarly text that crackles with wit, intelligence and insight, he tells the story of how American art developed. Hughes investigates the changing tastes of the American public; he explores the effects on art of America's landscape of unparalleled variety and richness; he examines the impact of the melting-pot of cultures that America has always been. Most of all he concentrates on the paintings and art objects themselves and on the men and women - from Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins to Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe, from Arthur Dove and George Bellows to Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko -awho created them. This is an uncompromising and refreshingly opinionated exploration of America, told through the lens of its art.
For this remarkable volume, Mora and Brannan immersed themselves in the vast archive at the Library of Congress and emerged with unknown treasures. Theirs is a new view of the achievement of the FSA photographers--the most comprehensive in print--that gives them their due as the creators of a new American photographic vision.
To millions of listeners, Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run is much more than a rock-and-roll album-it's a poetic explosion of freedom and frustration. It confirmed Springsteen's status as a quintessential American performer: the rocker who, more than any other, gives voice to our hopes, fears, and aspirations. Runaway Dream chronicles the making of the album that launched Springsteen and his E Street Band into the firmament of American art, deftly sketching the ambition, history, and personalities that combined to create the enduring Born to Run. Springsteen wanted Born to Run to be the greatest rock record ever made. For a musician with just two modest-selling LPs to his credit, it was an extraordinary ambition, and session by session, track by track, Masur shows just how much grit, as well as genius, went into realizing it. Runaway Dream offers an expert tour of the trials and triumphs of Springsteen's work. In addition to the story of the album itself, Masur masterfully places Born to Run within American cultural history, showing why the girls, hot rods, and Jersey nights of the album still resonate, even for listeners born years after its release.
The Hudson River School by New-York Historical Society,Linda S. Ferber Pdf
Examines art from the Hudson River School, nineteenth-century artists whose work captured the American landscape, including selections from Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Church, Thomas Cole, and others; and featuring one hundred reproductions and fold-out pages.
At this critical moment in history, the pressure is on for America to become “just like all other nations.” Yet America was born as an outlier, an exception to the norm—a place nothing like all other nations! How did America discover the secret to groundbreaking uniqueness? Why was America entrusted with an unprecedented expansion of liberty, opportunity, and prosperity? Do we still have the faith, courage, and character to look over the horizon and see what others cannot? 20/20 Vision For America provokes a new generation to answer these questions, and to lead America through the 21st century. In this book you will discover: • The costly victories which paved the way for America’s emergence—and why we must remember them today. • The global, multi-generational vision that undergirds America’s purpose. • An understanding of how to properly deal with the flaws in America’s past. • How to apply powerful ideas that our forefathers understood—ideas which led to extraordinary divine favor. Together, we can rediscover and fulfill the purpose that truly makes America great.
David W. Muris,Steven M. Beresford,Merril J. Allen,Francis A. Young
Author : David W. Muris,Steven M. Beresford,Merril J. Allen,Francis A. Young Publisher : Simon and Schuster Page : 132 pages File Size : 43,5 Mb Release : 1996-11-07 Category : Health & Fitness ISBN : 9780684814384
Author : Edward H. Crane,David Boaz Publisher : Cato Institute Page : 372 pages File Size : 55,5 Mb Release : 1989 Category : United States ISBN : 0932790739
Judy Chicago by Edward Lucie-Smith,Judy Chicago Pdf
A prodigious body of work that has transformed perceptions of women's art and collaborative venture is fully scrutinized in the first book to cover the entire scope of the artist's influential career. Coincides with a traveling exhibition of Chicago's recent work. 240 color, 35 b&w illustrations.