Author : Henry Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:613355576
John La Farge
Henry Adams
John La Farge
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"John La Farge, A Biographical and Critical Study "
JamesL. Yarnall
Author : JamesL. Yarnall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351561556
"John La Farge, A Biographical and Critical Study " by JamesL. Yarnall Pdf
John La Farge, A Biographical and Critical Study is the first biography in a century of the American painter, illustrator, muralist, stained-glass artist, and writer. Examining La Farge's career from his youth to his late rebound as a decorative artist-from New York City and New England to Europe to Japan to the South Seas-this is also the only biography to date composed independently of the artist and his estate. Drawing on primary documentation culled from archives and contemporary newspapers and journals, the biography thoroughly documents La Farge's career and artwork. Earlier biographies avoided the darker aspects of his complex and conflicted life, which had dramatic effects on his work. The study also offers critical analysis of the artist's works, showing influences from other artists and giving contemporary and modern responses. La Farge authority James L. Yarnall scrutinizes how posterity has viewed the artist throughout the century since his death. The book is copiously illustrated with black-and-white and color images.
The Art and Thought of John La Farge
Katie Kresser
Author : Katie Kresser
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 1409426157
The Art and Thought of John La Farge by Katie Kresser Pdf
The Art and Thought of John La Farge offers an unprecedented portrait of one of the most celebrated artists of the Gilded Age and opens a window onto nineteenth-century American culture. The book reveals how the work of John La Farge contributed to a rich philosophical dialogue concerning the trustworthiness of human perception. In his struggle against a 'common truth' of iconic symbols presented by a new mass visual culture, La Farge developed a subversive approach to visual representation that focused attention not on the artwork itself, but on the complex, real encounter of artist, subject and medium from which the artwork came.
John La Farge, Watercolors and Drawings
James L. Yarnall
Author : James L. Yarnall
Publisher : Hudson River Museum
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : 0943651247
John La Farge, Watercolors and Drawings by James L. Yarnall Pdf
Considerations on Painting
John La Farge
Author : John La Farge
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Painting
ISBN : NYPL:33433060444456
Considerations on Painting by John La Farge Pdf
John La Farge, Artist and Writer
Cecilia Waern
Author : Cecilia Waern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Art, American
ISBN : UOM:39015005872083
John La Farge, Artist and Writer by Cecilia Waern Pdf
John La Farge : [published on the occasion of the exhibition "John LaFarge", shown at the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Inst., Washington, D. C., July 10 - Oct. 12, 1987 ; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Nov. 7, 1987 - Jan. 3, 1988 ...]
John La Farge,Henry Adams
Author : John La Farge,Henry Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015011967471
John La Farge : [published on the occasion of the exhibition "John LaFarge", shown at the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Inst., Washington, D. C., July 10 - Oct. 12, 1987 ; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Nov. 7, 1987 - Jan. 3, 1988 ...] by John La Farge,Henry Adams Pdf
La Farge, now nearly forgotten, was at one time considered among the most progressive 19th century American artists. His oil landscapes and watercolors and direct studies from nature decisively influenced Winslow Homer. His innovations in opalescent glass revitalized the art of stained glass with undreamt-of pictorial effects. An interior design for Trinity Church in Boston, with its floating Byzantine spaces, created a sensation. Muralist, book illustrator, art critic, travel writer, decorator, La Farge combined all these roles. Yet most of his paintings look academic and stilted by modern standards, and his far-flung trips to the South Seas and Japan yielded only tame travel scenes. Combining nearly 200 illustrations with essays by scholars, this catalogue of a traveling exhibit includes photographs of his interiors for the Vanderbilt house in New York, civic buildings and churches.
John Lafarge and the Limits of Catholic Interracialism, 1911–1963
David W. Southern
Author : David W. Southern
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807119717
John Lafarge and the Limits of Catholic Interracialism, 1911–1963 by David W. Southern Pdf
Before Vatican II, before the race riots of the 1940s, the white Jesuit priest John Lafarge decried America’s treatment of blacks. In the first scholarly biography of Lafarge, David W Southern paints a portrait of a man ahead of his church on the race issue who nevertheless did not press hard enough in ridding it of an institutional bias against African-Americans. Southern follows Lafarge from his birth into the Social Register in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1880, to his death in 1963, just months after his participation in the March on Washington. According to Southern, Lafarge was the foremost Catholic spokesman on black-white relations in America for more than thirty years. In a series of books and articles—he served on the staff of the influential Jesuit weekly America from 1926 until his death—he significantly improved the image of the Church in the eyes of black, Jewish, and Protestant leaders. In 1934 he founded the Catholic Interracial Council of New York, the most important Catholic civil rights organization in the pre-Brown era. His declaration in 1937 that racism is a sin and a heresy so impressed the pope that he employed Lafarge to write an encyclical on the subject. Although lauded in his time for his achievements in race relations, Lafarge, Southern contends, espoused too gradualist an approach. Southern maintains that Lafarge was fettered by a fierce loyalty to the Church, a staunch clericalism, an intense concern with the image of Catholicism in Protestant America, an aristocratic background, and Eurocentric thinking—producing in him an abiding paternalism and lingering ambivalence about black culture, and a tendency to conceal the Church’s discriminatory practices rather than reveal them. Moreover, he was too slow to condemn segregation and approve the nonviolent direct action of Martin Luther King, Jr. Still, Southern sees in Lafarge a redeeming capacity for liberal growth, citing his inspiration of a younger, more militant generation of Catholics and his joining in the 1963 march. Based on extensive archival research, John LaFarge and the Limits of Catholic Interracialism fills a serious gap in Catholic social history and race-relations history. An impressive, engrossing biography, it also casts light on the broader historical issues of the Church’s attitudes and practices toward African-Americans since the Civil War, Catholic liberalism before Vatican II, and the seeds of unrest that manifest themselves today in the rapidly growing black Catholic community.
Turn Left at the Sleeping Dog
John Pen La Farge
Author : John Pen La Farge
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826320155
Turn Left at the Sleeping Dog by John Pen La Farge Pdf
The interviews collected in this book preserve the old Santa Fe, the one people are still looking for. The interviewees represent a cross-section of Santa Fe during the best of times: native Santa Feans, both Spanish American and Anglo, artists, immigrants, those who came by accident, those who came intending to stay, those who fought to preserve the older cultures' traditions and values.
Behind the Mountains
Oliver La Farge
Author : Oliver La Farge
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : New Mexico
ISBN : 9780865346765
Behind the Mountains by Oliver La Farge Pdf
Pulitzer Prize-winner La Farge died in 1963. Of his many books, this work has earned the affection of Santa Feans and New Mexicans, who continue to regard it as a regional classic.
AN ARTIST'S LETTERS FROM JAPAN.
John La Farge
Author : John La Farge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Japan
ISBN : UIUC:30112080211508
AN ARTIST'S LETTERS FROM JAPAN. by John La Farge Pdf
Interracial Justice
John LaFarge
Author : John LaFarge
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1397189894
Interracial Justice by John LaFarge Pdf
Excerpt from Interracial Justice: A Study of the Catholic Doctrine of Race Relations The problem of race relations in the United States is usually regarded as hopeless in proportion as attention is narrowed upon the immediate participants in racial conflicts. Hope for its solu tion arises as relations between the races are seen in the light of wider, common interests; in the light of history, and in the light of Spiritual truths. The following chapters are an attempt to apply such a wider view to the social problem of racial differences. All that is Fiere written is based upon an assumption, which the author believes is indisputably sound, that racial disputes, similar to disputes in any other area of human relationships, will yield to the solvent of Catholic social ethics as teaching, the application of justice and charity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Reason for the Darkness of the Night
John Tresch
Author : John Tresch
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374717445
The Reason for the Darkness of the Night by John Tresch Pdf
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | Finalist for the 2022 Edgar Award Winner of the 2021 Quinn Award An innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe—highlighting his fascination and feuds with science. Decade after decade, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the most popular American writers. He is beloved around the world for his pioneering detective fiction, tales of horror, and haunting, atmospheric verse. But what if there was another side to the man who wrote “The Raven” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”? In The Reason for the Darkness of the Night, John Tresch offers a bold new biography of a writer whose short, tortured life continues to fascinate. Shining a spotlight on an era when the lines separating entertainment, speculation, and scientific inquiry were blurred, Tresch reveals Poe’s obsession with science and lifelong ambition to advance and question human knowledge. Even as he composed dazzling works of fiction, he remained an avid and often combative commentator on new discoveries, publishing and hustling in literary scenes that also hosted the era’s most prominent scientists, semi-scientists, and pseudo-intellectual rogues. As one newspaper put it, “Mr. Poe is not merely a man of science—not merely a poet—not merely a man of letters. He is all combined; and perhaps he is something more.” Taking us through his early training in mathematics and engineering at West Point and the tumultuous years that followed, Tresch shows that Poe lived, thought, and suffered surrounded by science—and that many of his most renowned and imaginative works can best be understood in its company. He cast doubt on perceived certainties even as he hungered for knowledge, and at the end of his life delivered a mind-bending lecture on the origins of the universe that would win the admiration of twentieth-century physicists. Pursuing extraordinary conjectures and a unique aesthetic vision, he remained a figure of explosive contradiction: he gleefully exposed the hoaxes of the era’s scientific fraudsters even as he perpetrated hoaxes himself. Tracing Poe’s hard and brilliant journey, The Reason for the Darkness of the Night is an essential new portrait of a writer whose life is synonymous with mystery and imagination—and an entertaining, erudite tour of the world of American science just as it was beginning to come into its own.
Vanishing Paradise
Elizabeth C. Childs
Author : Elizabeth C. Childs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520271739
Vanishing Paradise by Elizabeth C. Childs Pdf
Vanishing paradise" offers a fresh take on the modernist primitivism of the French painter Paul Gauguin, the exoticism of the American John LaFarge, and the elite tourism of the American writer Henry Adams. Childs explores how these artists wrestled with the elusiveness of paradise and portrayed colonial Tahiti in ways both mythic and modern.
A Walk Through the American Wing
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). American Wing
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). American Wing
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588390134
A Walk Through the American Wing by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). American Wing Pdf
The Metropolitan’s renowned American Wing is where the Museum’s unsurpassed collection of American fine and decorative art is on permanent public display, from masterpieces of painting, sculpture, and drawing to exquisite examples of the finest American furniture, silver, glass, ceramics, and textiles. This handsome volume presents an overview of the collection and provides an informative walk through the American Wing’s richly furnished period rooms and stunning architectural displays. These include the magnificent marble façade of the Branch Bank of the United States—the entrance to the original American Wing when it opened in 1924—and the restored living room of a Frank Lloyd Wright prairie-style house. The comprehensive survey of paintings and sculpture begins with early colonial portraiture and from there follows the emergence and development of a national fine-arts tradition, including significant movements and genres such as the Hudson River School, neoclassical sculpture, and American Impressionism. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
