Producing Local Color

Author : Diane Grams
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226305233

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Producing Local Color by Diane Grams Pdf

In big cities, major museums and elite galleries tend to dominate our idea of the art world. But beyond the cultural core ruled by these moneyed institutions and their patrons are vibrant, local communities of artists and art lovers operating beneath the high-culture radar. Producing Local Color is a guided tour of three such alternative worlds that thrive in the Chicago neighborhoods of Bronzeville, Pilsen, and Rogers Park. These three neighborhoods are, respectively, historically African American, predominantly Mexican American, and proudly ethnically mixed. Drawing on her ethnographic research in each place, Diane Grams presents and analyzes the different kinds of networks of interest and support that sustain the making of art outside of the limelight. And she introduces us to the various individuals—from cutting-edge artists to collectors to municipal planners—who work together to develop their communities, honor their history, and enrich the experiences of their neighbors through art. Along with its novel insights into these little examined art worlds, Producing Local Color also provides a thought-provoking account of how urban neighborhoods change and grow.

Author : Diane Grams
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226305171

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Producing Local Color by Diane Grams Pdf

In big cities, major museums and elite galleries tend to dominate our idea of the art world. But beyond the cultural core ruled by these moneyed institutions and their patrons are vibrant, local communities of artists and art lovers operating beneath the high-culture radar. Producing Local Color is a guided tour of three such alternative worlds that thrive in the Chicago neighborhoods of Bronzeville, Pilsen, and Rogers Park. These three neighborhoods are, respectively, historically African American, predominantly Mexican American, and proudly ethnically mixed. Drawing on her ethnographic research in each place, Diane Grams presents and analyzes the different kinds of networks of interest and support that sustain the making of art outside of the limelight. And she introduces us to the various individuals—from cutting-edge artists to collectors to municipal planners—who work together to develop their communities, honor their history, and enrich the experiences of their neighbors through art. Along with its novel insights into these little examined art worlds, Producing Local Color also provides a thought-provoking account of how urban neighborhoods change and grow.

Author : Dr.S.Prabahar
Publisher : Shanlax Publications
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788119042197

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National Conference on Local Color Literature by Dr.S.Prabahar Pdf

Author : Josephine Donovan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441119001

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European Local-Color Literature by Josephine Donovan Pdf

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Author : Mimi Robinson
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781616894405

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Local Color by Mimi Robinson Pdf

How to understand color’s impact on our perception of a place—and capture its palette in watercolor landscapes and cityscapes. Whenever we first encounter a new place, whether landscape or cityscape, one of the most immediate and powerful sensations comes from its colors, or the palette of colors, which profoundly influence our reaction to and sense of a space. In Local Color, designer and educator Mimi Robinson teaches us not only how to see the colors around us but also how to capture and record them in watercolor. Regardless of your level of painting expertise, Robinson will quickly have you creating personal memories of time, place, and travel through a series of self-guided exercises and illustrated examples.

Author : Milton Bradley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Color
ISBN : UCAL:$B270828

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Elementary Color by Milton Bradley Pdf

The intent of this book is to offer for primary school teachers a clear and condensed explanation of the Bradley System of Color Instruction. This system relies on Maxwell rotating color disks to determine and define pigmentary standards.

Author : Jerome Stern
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780393077698

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Making Shapely Fiction by Jerome Stern Pdf

A deft analysis and appreciation of fiction—what makes it work and what can make it fail. Here is a book about the craft of writing fiction that is thoroughly useful from the first to the last page—whether the reader is a beginner, a seasoned writer, or a teacher of writing. You will see how a work takes form and shape once you grasp the principles of momentum, tension, and immediacy. "Tension," Stern says, "is the mother of fiction. When tension and immediacy combine, the story begins." Dialogue and action, beginnings and endings, the true meaning of "write what you know," and a memorable listing of don'ts for fiction writers are all covered. A special section features an Alphabet for Writers: entries range from Accuracy to Zigzag, with enlightening comments about such matters as Cliffhangers, Point of View, Irony, and Transitions.

Author : Jennifer Rae Greeson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674059351

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Our South by Jennifer Rae Greeson Pdf

Since the birth of the nation, we have turned to stories about the American South to narrate the rapid ascendency of the United States on the world stage. The idea of a cohesive South, different from yet integral to the United States, arose with the very formation of the nation itself. Its semitropical climate, plantation production, and heterogeneous population once defined the New World from the perspective of Europe. By founding U.S. literature through opposition to the South, writers boldly asserted their nation to stand apart from the imperial world order. Our South tracks the nation/South juxtaposition in U.S. literature from the founding to the turn of the twentieth century, through genres including travel writing, gothic and romance novels, geography textbooks, transcendentalist prose, and abolitionist address. Even as the southern states became peripheral to U.S. politics and economy, Jennifer Rae Greeson demonstrates that in literature the South remained central to the expanding and evolving idea of the nation. Claiming the South as our deviant and recalcitrant “other,” Americans have projected an anti-imperial imperative of domesticating and civilizing, administering and integrating underdeveloped regions both within our borders and beyond. Our South has been a primal site for thinking about geography and power in the United States.

Author : Kenneth Womack
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1333 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313071577

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Books and Beyond [4 volumes] by Kenneth Womack Pdf

There's a strong interest in reading for pleasure or self-improvement in America, as shown by the popularity of Harry Potter, and book clubs, including Oprah Winfrey's. Although recent government reports show a decline in recreational reading, the same reports show a strong correlation between interest in reading and academic acheivement. This set provides a snapshot of the current state of popular American literature, including various types and genres. The volume presents alphabetically arranged entries on more than 70 diverse literary categories, such as cyberpunk, fantasy literature, flash fiction, GLBTQ literature, graphic novels, manga and anime, and zines. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a definition of the genre, an overview of its history, a look at trends and themes, a discussion of how the literary form engages contemporary issues, a review of the genre's reception, a discussion of authors and works, and suggestions for further reading. Sidebars provide fascinating details, and the set closes with a selected, general bibliography. Reading in America for pleasure and knowledge continues to be popular, even while other media compete for attention. While students continue to read many of the standard classics, new genres have emerged. These have captured the attention of general readers and are also playing a critical role in the language arts classroom. This book maps the state of popular literature and reading in America today, including the growth of new genres, such as cyberpunk, zines, flash fiction, GLBTQ literature, and other topics. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a definition of the genre, an overview of its history, a look at trends and themes, a discussion of how the literary form engages contemporary issues, a review of the genre's critical reception, a discussion of authors and works, and suggestions for further reading. Sidebars provide fascinating details, and the set closes with a selected, general bibliography. Students will find this book a valuable guide to what they're reading today and will appreciate its illumination of popular culture and contemporary social issues.

Author : Brad Evans
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226222646

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Before Cultures by Brad Evans Pdf

The term culture in its anthropological sense did not enter the American lexicon with force until after 1910—more than a century after Herder began to use it in Germany and another thirty years after E. B. Tylor and Franz Boas made it the object of anthropological attention. Before Cultures explores this delay in the development of the culture concept and its relation to the description of difference in late nineteenth-century America. In this work, Brad Evans weaves together the histories of American literature and anthropology. His study brings alive not only the regionalist and ethnographic fiction of the time but also revives a range of neglected materials, including the Zuni sketchbooks of anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing; popular magazines such as Century Illustrated Monthly, which published Cushing's articles alongside Henry James's; the debate between Joel Chandler Harris, author/collector of the Uncle Remus folktales, and John Wesley Powell, perhaps the most important American anthropologist of the time; and Du Bois's polemics against the culture concept as it was being developed in the early twentieth century. Written with clarity and grace, Before Cultures will be of value to students of American literature, history, and anthropology alike.

Author : Nathaniel Cadle
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469618456

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The Mediating Nation by Nathaniel Cadle Pdf

Mediating Nation: Late American Realism, Globalization, and the Progressive State

Author : United States. Bureau of International Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic industries
ISBN : UIUC:30112072652883

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Electronic Components by United States. Bureau of International Commerce Pdf

Author : Caroline F. Levander,Robert S. Levine
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813543871

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Hemispheric American Studies by Caroline F. Levander,Robert S. Levine Pdf

This landmark collection brings together a range of exciting new comparative work in the burgeoning field of hemispheric studies. Scholars working in the fields of Latin American studies, Asian American studies, American studies, American literature, African Diaspora studies, and comparative literature address the urgent question of how scholars might reframe disciplinary boundaries within the broad area of what is generally called American studies. The essays take as their starting points such questions as: What happens to American literary, political, historical, and cultural studies if we recognize the interdependency of nation-state developments throughout all the Americas? What happens if we recognize the nation as historically evolving and contingent rather than already formed? Finally, what happens if the "fixed" borders of a nation are recognized not only as historically produced political constructs but also as component parts of a deeper, more multilayered series of national and indigenous histories? With essays that examine stamps, cartoons, novels, film, art, music, travel documents, and governmental publications, Hemispheric American Studies seeks to excavate the complex cultural history of texts and discourses across the ever-changing and stratified geopolitical and cultural fields that collectively comprise the American hemisphere. This collection promises to chart new directions in American literary and cultural studies.

Author : Phyllis Wood
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1994-04-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0471285250

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Scientific Illustration by Phyllis Wood Pdf

This volume guides readers through the materials, methods, principles, and practice used to create all types of medical, biological, and zoological illustrations. It includes information on computer graphics that encompasses hardware, software, techniques, and usage tips. The author provides a basic overview of the field, including introductory rendering techniques, and an in-depth discussion of the many applications of the work, such as presentation graphics and exhibit design.

Author : Amy Lucretia Livingston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B5298891

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Local Color the Romancer of Social Investigation by Amy Lucretia Livingston Pdf