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Author : Susanna Reich
Publisher : Human Kinetics 1
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0618714707
Generously illustrated with archival prints and photos of Catlin's own paintings, this accessible biography of one of America's best-known painters weaves a well-researched history with stories of Catlin's travels and adventures.
Author : Jennifer Armstrong
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0810942380
Briefly tells the story of this nineteenth-century painter and naturalist who is most famous for his detailed paintings of birds.
Author : Stephen J. May
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476648224
For over 200 years, the American Western novel has chronicled much of the American experience, especially those of James Fenimore Cooper, Bret Harte, Andy Adams, Jack Schaefer and Larry McMurtry. Alongside the roguish figure of the cowboy, Westerns depict the experiences of women and minorities as they face the hardships and deprivations of the frontier. This book is directed at the general reader who is interested in the literature, history and culture of the American West. Exploring novels that have achieved a high level of acclaim, it is a survey and homage to the frontier's lasting works, detailing both the writers' lives and their fictional creations. The author traces the development of the Western novel through biography, anecdote, summary, analysis and informed criticism, revealing the struggles and triumphs of the genre's authors, the changing standards of the frontier story and the lasting effects of the region's magisterial landscape.
Author : Peter H. Hassrick
Publisher : New York : Abrams
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:49015000962671
Author : Ronnie C. Tyler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015015251534
This publication presents recent research in the field of western American narrative painting, and focuses on nine artists who helped to develop the images of the trapper, flatboatman, pioneer, Indian, and other American "types." It shows the familiar paintings of George Caleb Bingham in context with those of less-known artists such as William Rauney and Charles Wilmar and the relatively unknown works of Charles Deas. The essays demonstrate how the images of these and other artists were related to literature and to the popular prints through which they were transmitted to a wide audience. Narrative painting was especially prevalent in the years 1830 to 1860, when much of the public perception of the West was formed, and the scenes of the familiar--of everyday life--helped the unfamiliar and exotic West become an integral part of America's concept of itself. ISBN 0-89659-691-5: $39.95 (For use only in the library).
Author : Norman K Denzin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315426808
Even as their nations and cultures were being destroyed by colonial expansion across the continent, American Indians became a form of entertainment, sometimes dangerous and violent, sometimes primitive and noble. Creating a fictional wild west, entrepreneurs then exported it around the world. Exhibitions by George Catlin, paintings by Charles King, and Wild West shows by Buffalo Bill Cody were viewed by millions worldwide. Norman Denzin uses a series of performance pieces with historical, contemporary, and fictitious characters to provide a cultural critique of how this version of Indians, one that existed only in the western imagination, was commodified and sold to a global audience. He then calls for a rewriting of the history of the American west, one devoid of minstrelsy and racist pageantry, and honoring the contemporary cultural and artistic visions of people whose ancestors were shattered by American expansionism.
Author : Booklist
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838919507
With the explosion in YA publishing, it’s harder than ever to separate good books from the rest. Booklist magazine’s editors’ deep and broad knowledge of the landscape offers indispensable guidance, and here they bring together the very best of the best books for young adults published since the start of the 21st century.
Author : Alison Booth
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781839782312
When Anika Molnar flees her home country of Hungary not long before the break-up ofthe Soviet Union, she carries only a small suitcase - and a beautiful and much-lovedpainting of an auburn-haired woman in a cobalt blue dress from her family's hiddencollection.Arriving in Australia, Anika moves in with her aunt in Sydney, and the painting hangs inpride of place in her bedroom. But one day it is stolen in what seems to be a carefullyplanned theft, and Anika's carefree life takes a more ominous turn.Sinister secrets from her family's past and Hungary's fraught history cast suspicion overthe painting's provenance, and she embarks on a gripping quest to uncover the truth.Hungary's war-torn past contrasts sharply with Australia's bright new world ofopportunity in this moving and compelling mystery.
Author : Kenneth L. Feder
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781538145876
Historian Wallace Stegner characterized America’s National Park system as “the best idea we ever had.” One can quibble with that, but, indeed, it was a pretty good idea! This book specifically is a guide and a celebration of 30 of those national parks, national historical parks, and national monuments that, each in its own way, reveals the histories and cultures of America’s first inhabitants, the Native Americans. Its pages will take you to: great mounds in Ohio where the dead were laid to rest in sumptuous splendor 2,000 years ago a place in Iowa where 1,000 years ago, Native Americans sculpted earth into the forms of giant bears and birds a quarry in Minnesota where Native People have, for hundreds of years, extracted blood-red stone for their ceremonial pipes the remains of a village in North Dakota visited by Lewis and Clark in the early 1800s and the home of their guide Sacagewea truly breathtaking, more than 700-year-old cliff dwellings in Arizona and Colorado, that will astonish you in their ethereal beauty and architectural ingenuity phantasmagorical images of 7-foot-tall, wide-eyed spirit beings in Utah painted more than 1,000 years ago And many more. All of these sites have in common the fact that, at the insistence of Native and non-Native people, men and women, the federal government of the United States set them aside as places to preserve, study, and revere as part of the American story no matter where your ancestors came from, how they got here, or how long ago. Read this book and visit the historically sacred sites enshrined in our national parks, national historical parks, and national monuments, places that reveal the creativity and genius of the Native People of North America. With 180 color photographs and complete visitor information, this is a wonderful guide to Native American archaeology in our national parks and monuments.
Author : Judith A. Barter,Art Institute of Chicago
Publisher : Hudson Hills
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0865591997
This book depicts a group of Chicago patrons who sought to shape the city's identity and foster a uniquely American style, by supporting local artists who depicted the West.
Author : James Rosenquist,David Dalton
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307263421
From James Rosenquist, one of our most iconic pop artists—along with Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, and Roy Lichtenstein—comes this candid and fascinating memoir. Unlike these artists, Rosenquist often works in three-dimensional forms, with highly dramatic shifts in scale and a far more complex palette, including grisaille and Day-Glo colors. A skilled traditional painter, he avoided the stencils and silk screens of Warhol and Lichtenstein. His vast canvases full of brilliant, surreally juxtaposed images would influence both many of his contemporaries and younger generations, as well as revolutionize twentieth-century painting. Ronsequist writes about growing up in a tight-knit community of Scandinavian farmers in North Dakota and Minnesota in the late 1930s and early 1940s; about his mother, who was not only an amateur painter but, along with his father, a passionate aviator; and about leaving that flat midwestern landscape in 1955 for New York, where he had won a scholarship to the Art Students League. George Grosz, Edwin Dickinson, and Robert Beverly Hale were among his teachers, but his early life was a struggle until he discovered sign painting. He describes days suspended on scaffolding high over Broadway, painting movie or theater billboards, and nights at the Cedar Tavern with Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and the poet LeRoi Jones. His first major studio, on Coenties Slip, was in the thick of the new art world. Among his neighbors were Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Indiana, Agnes Martin, and Jack Youngerman, and his mentors Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Rosenquist writes about his shows with the dealers Richard Bellamy, Ileana Sonnabend, and Leo Castelli, and about colorful collectors like Robert and Ethel Scull. We learn about the 1971 car crash that left his wife and son in a coma and his own life and work in shambles, his lobbying—along with Rauschenberg—for artists’ rights in Washington D.C., and how he got his work back on track. With his distinct voice, Roseqnuist writes about the ideas behind some of his major paintings, from the startling revelation that led to his first pop painting, Zone, to his masterpiece, F-III, a stunning critique of war and consumerism, to the cosmic reverie of Star Thief. This is James Rosenquist’s story in his own words—captivating and unexpected, a unique look inside the contemporary art world in the company of one of its most important painters.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006281203
Author : Magda Jozsa
Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1419602608
Retained by Sir Eustace Plymouth to find his missing son, Holmes and Watson travel to the Colorado where they find the elusive heir and his new American wife. Getting the young couple home, past desperados and gold-crazed gunslingers proves more difficult than finding them.
Author : Lawrence O. Christensen,William E. Foley,Gary Kremer
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826260160
Provides short biographies on notable men and women from Missouri from a variety of areas including politics, business, agriculture, entertainment, sports, social reform, science and religion.
Author : Miles J. Unger
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476794228
One of The Christian Science Monitor’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2018 “An engrossing read…a historically and psychologically rich account of the young Picasso and his coteries in Barcelona and Paris” (The Washington Post) and how he achieved his breakthrough and revolutionized modern art through his masterpiece, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. In 1900, eighteen-year-old Pablo Picasso journeyed from Barcelona to Paris, the glittering capital of the art world. For the next several years he endured poverty and neglect before emerging as the leader of a bohemian band of painters, sculptors, and poets. Here he met his first true love and enjoyed his first taste of fame. Decades later Picasso would look back on these years as the happiest of his long life. Recognition came first from the avant-garde, then from daring collectors like Leo and Gertrude Stein. In 1907, Picasso began the vast, disturbing masterpiece known as Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Inspired by the painting of Paul Cézanne and the inventions of African and tribal sculpture, Picasso created a work that captured the disorienting experience of modernity itself. The painting proved so shocking that even his friends assumed he’d gone mad, but over the months and years it exerted an ever greater fascination on the most advanced painters and sculptors, ultimately laying the foundation for the most innovative century in the history of art. In Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World, Miles J. Unger “combines the personal story of Picasso’s early years in Paris—his friendships, his romances, his great ambition, his fears—with the larger story of modernism and the avant-garde” (The Christian Science Monitor). This is the story of an artistic genius with a singular creative gift. It is “riveting…This engrossing book chronicles with precision and enthusiasm a painting with lasting impact in today’s art world” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), all of it played out against the backdrop of the world’s most captivating city.
