Chicago Portraits

Author : Chicago Tribune Staff
Publisher : Agate Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-18
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781572847439

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Chicago Portraits by Chicago Tribune Staff Pdf

The Chicago Tribune possesses a vast photo archive spanning its more than 150 years in publication. From the Civil War era through today, its photographers have captured thousands of people, from everyday Chicagoans to visitors to the Second City to well-known artists, athletes, and politicians. For the first time, the best of these great photographic portraits are being collected in a large-format coffee-table edition. Chicago Portraits comprises the most memorable of the innumerable images that some of the greatest photographers in journalism have created over the past century. It's a unique showcase for the unsung photographers who've quietly documented daily life in Chicago, and through their decades of work created an unparalleled panorama of the City of Big Shoulders. Curated by the Tribune's photography directors and compiled in a beautiful sewn hardback edition, this will be an engrossing visual cross-section of Chicago life that will be pored over by readers young and old for years to come. Chicago Portraits is a fascinating and colorful look into the lives and legacies that make up this great American city.

Author : June Skinner Sawyers
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810126497

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Chicago Portraits by June Skinner Sawyers Pdf

The famous, the infamous, and the unjustly forgotten—all receive their due in this biographical dictionary of the people who have made Chicago one of the world’s great cities. Here are the life stories—provided in short, entertaining capsules—of Chicago’s cultural giants as well as the industrialists, architects, and politicians who literally gave shape to the city. Jane Addams, Al Capone, Willie Dixon, Harriet Monroe, Louis Sullivan, Bill Veeck, Harold Washington, and new additions Saul Bellow, Harry Caray, Del Close, Ann Landers, Walter Payton, Koko Taylor, and Studs Terkel—Chicago Portraits tells you why their names are inseparable from the city they called home.

Author : June Skinner Sawyers
Publisher : Wild Onion Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015022024817

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Chicago Portraits by June Skinner Sawyers Pdf

Historical sketches of prominent figures from Chicago's past, either born and bred there or born and raised elsewhere but associated with the city. A sampling, just from last names beginning with the letter "A", yields Jane Addams, George Ade, Nelson Algren, Saul Alinsky, John Peter Altgeld, Sherwood Anderson, Louie Armstrong, and Jacob Arvey. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Sofia Samatar
Publisher : Rose Metal Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1941628109

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Monster Portraits by Sofia Samatar Pdf

"An uncanny and imaginative autobiography of otherness, it offers the fictional record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of Somali-American children growing up in the 1980s. Operating under the sign of two—texts and drawings, brother and sister, black and white, extraordinary and everyday —Monster Portraits multiplies, disintegrates, and blends, inviting the reader to find the danger in the banal, the beautiful in the grotesque. Accumulating into a breathless journey and groundbreaking study, these brief fictions and sketches claim the monster as a fragmentary vastness: not the sum but the derangement of its parts."--Amazon.com.

Author : Erica Warren
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300254310

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Bisa Butler by Erica Warren Pdf

A beautifully illustrated look at the work of one of today’s most unique and exciting artists Bisa Butler (b. 1973) is an American artist who creates arresting and psychologically nuanced portraits composed entirely of vibrantly colored and patterned fabrics that she cuts, layers, and stitches together. Often depicting scenes from African American life and history, Butler invites viewers to invest in the lives of the people she represents while simultaneously expanding art-historical narratives about American quiltmaking. Situating her interdisciplinary work within the broader history of textiles, photography, and contemporary art, contributions by a group of scholars—and entries by the artist herself—illuminate Butler’s approach to color, use of African-print fabrics, and wide-ranging sources of inspiration. Offering an in-depth exploration of one of America's most innovative contemporary artists, this volume will serve as a primary resource that both introduces Butler’s work and establishes a scholarly foundation for future research.

Author : Marie Svoboda,Caroline Cartwright
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606066539

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Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt by Marie Svoboda,Caroline Cartwright Pdf

This publication presents fascinating new findings on ancient Romano-Egyptian funerary portraits preserved in international collections. Once interred with mummified remains, nearly a thousand funerary portraits from Roman Egypt survive today in museums around the world, bringing viewers face-to-face with people who lived two thousand years ago. Until recently, few of these paintings had undergone in-depth study to determine by whom they were made and how. An international collaboration known as APPEAR (Ancient Panel Paintings: Examination, Analysis, and Research) was launched in 2013 to promote the study of these objects and to gather scientific and historical findings into a shared database. The first phase of the project was marked with a two-day conference at the Getty Villa. Conservators, scientists, and curators presented new research on topics such as provenance and collecting, comparisons of works across institutions, and scientific studies of pigments, binders, and supports. The papers and posters from the conference are collected in this publication, which offers the most up-to-date information available about these fascinating remnants of the ancient world. The free online edition of this open-access publication is available at www.getty.edu/publications/mummyportraits/ and includes zoomable illustrations and graphs. Also available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book.

Author : George Fitzpatrick Barfield
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781543456547

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The Life Portraits of Henry Clay by George Fitzpatrick Barfield Pdf

This work of research is an attempt to harness the extensive collection of images of one of antebellum Americas eminent statesman. Henry Clay assisted in the legislative passage of the Missouri and California compromises, extending the territorial borders of the emergent western territories in the 1830s to the 1850s. He ran twice with the party nomination for president in 1824 in the National Republican Party and in 1844 in the Whig Party. It is the authors hope that the preeminent names in antebellum American art G. P. A. Healy, Charles Bird King, and George Caleb Bingham, among those to render Henry Clay, will assist students of art and history.

Author : David Whiteis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : African Americans
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114531606

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Chicago Blues by David Whiteis Pdf

Through revealing portraits of selected local artists and slice-of-life vignettes drawn from the city's pubs and lounges, Chicago Blues encapsulates the sound and spirit of the blues as it is lived today. As a committed participant in the Chicago blues scene for more than a quarter century, David Whiteis draws on years of his observations and extensive interviews to paint a full picture of the Chicago blues world, both on and off the stage. In addition to portraits of blues artists he has personally known and worked with, Whiteis takes readers on a tour of venues like East of Ryan and the Starlight Lounge; home to artists such as Jumpin' Willie Cobbs, Willie D., and Harmonica Khan. He tells the stories behind the lives of past pioneers including Junior Wells, pianist Sunnyland Slim, and harpist Big Walter Horton, whose music reflects the universal concerns with love, loss, and yearning that continue to keep the blues so vital for so many.

Author : George E. Littlefield (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : America
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024939717

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A Catalogue of Old, Rare and Curious Books by George E. Littlefield (Firm) Pdf

Author : June Skinner Sawyers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : OCLC:1319191063

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Chicago Portraits by June Skinner Sawyers Pdf

Author : Andrew Paterson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000600223

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Late Antique Portraits and Early Christian Icons by Andrew Paterson Pdf

This book focuses on the earliest surviving Christian icons, dated to the sixth and seventh centuries, which bear many resemblances to three other well-established genres of ‘sacred portrait’ also produced during late antiquity, namely Roman imperial portraiture, Graeco-Egyptian funerary portraiture and panel paintings depicting non-Christian deities. Andrew Paterson addresses two fundamental questions about devotional portraiture – both Christian and non-Christian – in the late antique period. Firstly, how did artists visualise and construct these images of divine or sanctified figures? And secondly, how did their intended viewers look at, respond to, and even interact with these images? Paterson argues that a key factor of many of these portrait images is the emphasis given to the depicted gaze, which invites an intensified form of personal encounter with the portrait’s subject. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, theology, religion and classical studies.

Author : Tom Maday,Sam Landers
Publisher : Twopress Publishing Company
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0964170302

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Great Chicago Stories by Tom Maday,Sam Landers Pdf

Author : Keith M. Stolte
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467143226

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Chicago Artist Colonies by Keith M. Stolte Pdf

For more than a century, Chicago's leading painters, sculptors, writers, actors, dancers and architects congregated together in close-knit artistic enclaves. After the Columbian Exposition, they set up shop in places like Lambert Tree Studios and the 57th Street Artist Colony. Nationally renowned figures like Theodore Dreiser, Margaret Anderson, Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan became colleagues, confidants and neighbors. In the 1920s, Carl Sandburg, Emma Goldman, Ernest Hemingway, Ben Hecht, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Clarence Darrow transformed the speakeasies and bohemian bistros of Towertown into Chicago's Greenwich Village. In Old Town, Renaissance man Edgar Miller and progressive architect Andrew Rebori collaborated on the Frank Fisher Studios, one of the finest examples of Art Moderne architecture in the country. From Nellie Walker to Roger Ebert, Keith Stolte visits Chicago's ascendant artistic spirits in their chosen sanctuaries.

Author : Eileen M. Hunt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350378735

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Portraits of Wollstonecraft by Eileen M. Hunt Pdf

One of The Tablet's Books of the Year 2021 Portraits of Wollstonecraft collects and introduces 102 texts and artifacts that document Mary Wollstonecraft's public reception in art, literature, philosophy and feminist politics. Each portrait is a milestone in her depiction in culture. From William Blake's 1803 poem 'Mary' to Maggi Hambling's contentious sculpture in 2020, these sources validate the monumental place Wollstonecraft holds in not just one but many canons. The color images in Part I: Public Sightings trace her earliest reception in portraiture, from 1785 to 1804, with detailed analysis paired with each of the illustrations. Arranged chronologically, these landmark images are followed by the reviews of Wollstonecraft's books that appeared during her lifetime in Jamaica, Madrid, Amsterdam and London. Part II: Global Afterlives, examines her multifarious posthumous reception and features diary entries, excerpts from English-language biographies, letters, articles and introductions to her books. From Olive Schreiner's introduction to the Rights of Women composed in Cape Town in 1889 to the translator's preface to the first Czech edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1904, they showcase an impressive sweep of cross-cultural perspectives on her life and writings. The sources in Part III: Making an International Icon chart the depth and breadth of her legacies on a global scale. Feminists, philosophers, and social scientists-from Ruth Benedict to Virginia Sapiro to Amartya Sen-have written and spoken with conviction about the emotional power of looking into the eyes of the author of the Rights of Woman. This section includes major thinkers from across the 19th and 20th centuries who responded to Wollstonecraft's theories on virtue, love, gender, education, and rights: Mary Shelley, Emma Goldman, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, Susan Moller Okin, Barbara Johnson and Martha Nussbaum. We see how Wollstonecraft gained traction in feminist politics, both as a philosopher and as a transcultural icon of the cause, beginning with English suffragist Millicent Fawcett's centennial edition of the Rights of Woman in 1891 and extending through feminist art in The Paris Review during the age of #MeToo. Assembling responses from Ireland, Continental Europe, North and South America and across the former colonies of the British Empire, this one-of-a-kind collection tells a compelling story of Wollstonecraft's watershed contributions to human rights debates throughout the modern and contemporary world.

Author : Peggy Macnamara
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 022643155X

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Nature's Portraits by Peggy Macnamara Pdf

When it comes to color, nothing can surpass the vast palette found in nature, from a bright green leaf in a sun-dappled forest to the rich red feathers of a cardinal. Nature's Portraits offers sixty detailed drawings that can be brought brilliantly to life with nothing more than a few colored pencils or crayons and a sense of wonder about the world around us. Each illustration is captioned with the common and Latin names of the species pictured.