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Author : Henry James
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368937515
Reproduction of the original.
Author : Matthew Baigell
Publisher : New York : Praeger
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015001453086
Author : Henry James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UCSC:32106014774076
In New York Revisited, first published in Harper's Monthly Magazine in 1906, Henry James describes turn-of-the-century New York in vivid detail. Although written in 1904-1905, when James returned to the U.S. after living abroad for more than 20 years, the essay is as pertinent today as it was 100 years ago. The text appears as it was originally published and is enhanced with period illustrations and photographs. Beautifully bound and with a spectacular view of the Flatiron building on the cover, this book is a literary treasure.
Author : Ronald Berman
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780817319649
A study of the philosophical, intellectual, and political influences on the artistic creations of Fitzgerald and key early American modernist writers
Author : John R. Stilgoe
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0300034814
An engaging and delightfully illustrated account of the impact of railroads on the American built environment and on American culture from the last decades of the nineteenth century to the 1930's.
Author : John Raeburn
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-22
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780252056185
The paintings, murals, and graphics of Ben Shahn (1898-1969) have made him one of the most heralded American artists of the twentieth century, but during the 1930s he was also among the nation's premier photographers. Much of his photographic work was sponsored by the New Deal's Farm Security Administration, where his colleagues included Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans. Ben Shahn's American Scene: Photographs, 1938 presents one hundred superb photographs from his most ambitious FSA project, a survey of small-town life in the Depression. John Raeburn's accompanying text illuminates the thematic and formal significance of individual photographs and reveals how, taken together, they address key cultural and political issues of the years leading up to World War II. Shahn's photographs highlight conflicts between traditional values and the newer ones introduced by modernity as represented by the movies, chain stores, and the tantalizing allure of consumer goods, and they are particularly rich in observation about the changes brought about by Americans' universal reliance on the automobile. They also explore the small town's standing as the nation's symbol of democratic community and expose the discriminatory social and racial practices that subverted this ideal in 1930s America.
Author : Robert Taft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0486262022
Account of the development of the art of photography in the United States from the first introduction of daguerreotypy to the appearance of the film camera and modern processes for book, magazine and newspaper illustration--Cover.
Author : Ruth Lilly Westphal,Janet B. Dominik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015025372346
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Presidents
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Seymour Martin Lipset,Earl Raab
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0674424433
Will American Jews survive their success? Or will the United States' uniquely hospitable environment lead inexorably to their assimilation and loss of cultural identity? This is the conundrum that Seymour Lipset and Earl Raab explore in their wise and learned book about the American Jewish experience. Jews, perhaps more than any ethnic or religious minority that has immigrated to these shores, have benefited from the country's openness, egalitarianism, and social heterogeneity. This unusually good fit, the authors argue, has as much to do with the exceptionalism of the Jewish people as with that of America. But acceptance for all ancestral groups has its downside: integration into the mainstream erodes their defining features, diluting the loyalties that sustain their members. The authors vividly illustrate this paradox as it is experienced by American Jews today--in their high rates of intermarriage, their waning observance of religious rites, their extraordinary academic and professional success, their commitment to liberalism in domestic politics, and their steadfast defense of Israel. Yet Jews view these trends with a sense of foreboding: "We feel very comfortable in America--but anti-Semitism is a serious problem"; "We would be desolate if Israel were lost--but we don't feel as close to that country as we used to"; "More of our youth are seeking some serious form of Jewish affirmation and involvement--but more of them are slipping away from Jewish life." These are the contradictions tormenting American Jews as they struggle anew with the never-dying problem of Jewish continuity. A graceful and immensely readable work, Jews and the New American Scene provides a remarkable range of scholarship, anecdote, and statistical research--the clearest, most up-to-date account available of the dilemma facing American Jews in their third century of citizenship.
Author : Diana L. Linden
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780814339848
Lithuanian-born artist Ben Shahn learned fresco painting as an assistant to Diego Rivera in the 1930s and created his own visually powerful, technically sophisticated, and stylistically innovative artworks as part of the New Deal Arts Project’s national mural program. In Ben Shahn’s New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene author Diana L. Linden demonstrates that Shahn mined his Jewish heritage and left-leaning politics for his style and subject matter, offering insight into his murals’ creation and their sometimes complicated reception by officials, the public, and the press. In four chapters, Linden presents case studies of select Shahn murals that were created from 1933 to 1943 and are located in public buildings in New York, New Jersey, and Missouri. She studies Shahn’s famous untitled fresco for the Jersey Homesteads—a utopian socialist cooperative community populated with former Jewish garment workers and funded under the New Deal—Shahn’s mural for the Bronx Central Post Office, a fresco Shahn proposed to the post office in St. Louis, and a related one-panel easel painting titled The First Amendment located in a Queens, New York, post office. By investigating the role of Jewish identity in Shahn’s works, Linden considers the artist’s responses to important issues of the era, such as President Roosevelt’s opposition to open immigration to the United States, New York’s bustling garment industry and its labor unions, ideological concerns about freedom and liberty that had signifcant meaning to Jews, and the encroachment of censorship into American art. Linden shows that throughout his public murals, Shahn literally painted Jews into the American scene with his subjects, themes, and compositions. Readers interested in Jewish American history, art history, and Depression-era American culture will enjoy this insightful volume.
Author : Adolph Reed Jr.
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781620977170
The classic and deeply prescient collection that explores the multifaceted nature of race, class, and identity in America, from one of our most insightful and iconoclastic intellectuals Hailed by Publishers Weekly for its “forceful” and “bracing opinions on race and politics,” Class Notes is a collection of critic Adolph Reed Jr.’s clearest thinking on matters of race, class, and other American dilemmas. With barbed wit, Reed takes aim against the solipsistic, individualistic approaches of identity politics, and in favor of class-based political interpretation and action. Reed leaves no topic untouched, from the myth that there exists a particular kind of “Black Anti-Semitism,” to the grift perpetuated by commentators who claim to speak for groups solely based on their identity categories. Adolph Reed Jr. remains one of our most controversial and necessary interpreters of American politics. These essays illustrate why Reed is “the smartest person of any race, class, or gender writing on race, class, and gender” (Katha Pollitt). Class Notes is a classic text that signposts a path for the Left—out of essentialist gridlock and into meaningful, goal-oriented mass politics.
Author : Richard H. Love,Carl William Peters
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 1580460240
Throughout his life Peters depicted the ordinary places and people of America. From Rochester to Rockport, Peters made an amazingly coherent group of fascinating, masterful American pictures.
Author : Henry James
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:4066339523845
"The American scene" by Henry James. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : James Enyeart
Publisher : Arena Editions
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSD:31822031235104
Featuring a multi-faceted collection of images and words, this book is a lavishly produced companion to a major traveling exhibition documenting America just before the 21st century. 162 photos, 80 in color.