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Author : Birgitta Hjalmarson
Publisher : Balcony Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999-03
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015050132763
Birgitta Hjalmarson deftly brings these artists back to life, partly because their story is long overdue, partly because it is such a rollicking good one.
Author : Cindy Grisdela
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781617452628
“Do away with patterns and embrace your creative spirit with this vibrant and fun book.” —Quilting Arts With simple design principles, you can create unique improvisational quilts. Without using patterns, learn five easy piecing techniques for your improvisational toolbox (including circles, blocks, and strips), and watch the art unfold before your eyes. Focus on color combos and negative space to discover your personal style—and then add dazzling texture with free-motion quilting. Also included is information on hanging finished art quilts without a sleeve, plus tried and true improv tips to encourage creative play.
Author : Suzanne Baizerman,Lynn Downey,John Toki,Oakland Museum of California
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Arts and crafts movement
ISBN : 0764913999
The Arts and Crafts Movement exerted a profound influence on early-twentieth-century America, not only in the applied and decorative arts but also in the area of social reform. Standing at this intersection of art and reform were American art potteries that taught ceramics skills to working-class women as a means of securing income, restoring health, and/or uplifting the spirit. Like its better known and more successful predecessors -- the Marblehead Pottery in Massachusetts, the Newcomb Pottery in New Orleans, and the Paul Revere Pottery in Boston (home of the "Saturday Evening Girls") -- the Arequipa Pottery in Fairfax, California, had fascinating origins, and it produced distinctive wares that today are prized by collectors. Fired by Ideals: Arequipa Pottery and the Arts & Crafts Movement tells the story of the Arequipa Sanatorium and Pottery, whose roots lie in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. The dust and smoke from the disaster prompted an outbreak of tuberculosis, which afflicted "working girls" in particular. In 1911, a progressive physician, Dr. Philip King Brown, founded a treatment center in rural Marin County, north of San Francisco, where these women could get the rest and medical care they needed, as well as engage in a therapeutic and marketable pursuit: the manufacture of art pottery. In addition to its engaging historical narrative supported by dozens of vintage photographs, the book employs technical illustrations and beautiful full-color reproductions to examine the production process at Arequipa and the types of pottery made there.
Author : Margaret Sweatman
Publisher : Goose Lane Editions
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015084109647
Two French explorers arrive in Court to persuade the English King to fund their voyage. Set in the libertine era of Restoration England, The Players embarks on a voyage of discovery with compelling characters, a magical plot, and stunning imagery. From the author of "When Alice Lay Down with Peter."
Author : Rebecca Deville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:X76325
Author : Robert J. Chandler
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780806145259
Grafton Tyler Brown—whose heritage was likely one-eighth African American—finessed his way through San Francisco society by passing for white. Working in an environment hostile to African American achievement, Brown became a successful commercial artist and businessman in the rough-and-tumble gold rush era and the years after the Civil War. Best known for his bird’s-eye cityscapes, he also produced and published maps, charts, and business documents, and he illustrated books, sheet music, advertisements, and labels for cans and other packaging. This biography by a distinguished California historian gives an underappreciated artist and his work recognition long overdue. Focusing on Grafton Tyler Brown’s lithography and his life in nineteenth-century San Francisco, Robert J. Chandler offers a study equally fascinating as a business and cultural history and as an introduction to Brown the artist. Chandler’s contextualization of Brown’s career goes beyond the issue of race. Showing how Brown survived and flourished as a businessman, Chandler offers unique insight into the growth of printing and publishing in California and the West. He examines the rise of lithography, its commercial and cultural importance, and the competition among lithographic companies. He also analyzes Brown’s work and style, comparing it to the products of rival firms. Brown was not respected as a fine artist until after his death. Collectors of western art and Americana now recognize the importance of Californiana and of Brown’s work, some of which depicts Portland and the Pacific Northwest, and they will find Chandler’s checklist, descriptions, and reproductions of Brown’s ephemera—including billheads and maps—as uniquely valuable as Chandler’s contribution to the cultural and commercial history of California. In an afterword, historian Shirley Ann Wilson Moore discusses the circumstances and significance of passing in nineteenth-century America.
Author : Daniel Sage
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317120797
In this innovatory book Daniel Sage analyses how and why American space exploration reproduced and transformed American cultural and political imaginations by appealing to, and to an extent organizing, the transcendence of spatial and temporal frontiers. In so doing, he traces the development of a seductive, and powerful, yet complex and unstable American geographical imagination: the ’transcendental state’. Historical and indeed contemporary space exploration is, despite some recent notable exceptions, worthy of more attention across the social sciences and humanities. While largely engaging with the historical development of space exploration, it shows how contemporary cultural and social, and indeed geographical, research themes, including national identity, critical geopolitics, gender, technocracy, trauma and memory, can be informed by the study of space exploration.
Author : Colleen Aycock,Mark Scott
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786449910
This volume presents fifteen chapters of biography of African American and black champions and challengers of the early prize ring. They range from Tom Molineaux, a slave who won freedom and fame in the ring in the early 1800s; to Joe Gans, the first African American world champion; to the flamboyant Jack Johnson, deemed such a threat to white society that film of his defeat of former champion and "Great White Hope" Jim Jeffries was banned across much of the country. Photographs, period drawings, cartoons, and fight posters enhance the biographies. Round-by-round coverage of select historic fights is included, as is a foreword by Hall-of-Fame boxing announcer Al Bernstein.
Author : Scott R. Stroud
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271074610
Aesthetic experience has had a long and contentious history in the Western intellectual tradition. Following Kant and Hegel, a human’s interaction with nature or art frequently has been conceptualized as separate from issues of practical activity or moral value. This book examines how art can be seen as a way of moral cultivation. Scott Stroud uses the thought of the American pragmatist John Dewey to argue that art and the aesthetic have a close connection to morality. Dewey gives us a way to reconceptualize our ideas of ends, means, and experience so as to locate the moral value of aesthetic experience in the experience of absorption itself, as well as in the experience of reflective attention evoked by an art object.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : California
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113377936
Author : Elijah Whittier Blaisdell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:319510020618339
Author : Robert Thomas Collins
Publisher : RavensYard Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1928928110
Collins presents the behind-the-scenes account of tumultuous upheavals in the oil industry between 1995-2002 as industry seeks to gain access to vital petroleum resources overseas.
Author : Elijah Wald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199394043
"Originally published as 'The Dozens: a history of rap's mama.'"--Title page verso.
Author : Nancy Dustin Wall Moure,Historical Collections Council (Laguna Beach, Calif.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : STANFORD:36105129608092
"Continues those Newsletters printed in Publications in Southern California Art No. 5."
Author : Beth Gates Warren
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606060704
This captivating biography reveals the previously untold love story of Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather. Both were photographic artists at the center of the bohemian cultural scene in Los Angeles during the 1910s and 1920s, yet Weston would become a major Modernist photographer while Mather, who Weston ultimately expunged from his journals, would fall into obscurity. The book reveals how they and their entourage sought out the limelight as the Hollywood film industry came of age. Based on ten years of research and illustrated with extraordinary images, some never published, this history has a captivating range of characters, including Charlie Chaplin, Imogen Cunningham, Max Eastman, Emma Goldman, Tina Modotti, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Carl Sandburg. The lively text brings to life the ambiance of this exciting time in Los Angeles history as well as its darker side. Artful Lives exceeds any previously published account of this key period in Weston's development and reveals Mather's important contribution to it, making it an essential reference in Weston studies.
