The Painted Screens Of Baltimore

Author : Elaine Eff
Publisher : Folklore Studies in a Multicul
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 1617038911

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The Painted Screens of Baltimore by Elaine Eff Pdf

Painted screens have long been synonymous in the popular imagination with the Baltimore row house. Picturesque, practical, and quirky, window and door screens adorned with scenic views simultaneously offer privacy and ventilation in crowded neighborhoods. As an urban folk art, painted screens flourished in Baltimore, though they did not originate there--precursors date to early eighteenth-century London. They were a fixture on fine homes and businesses in Europe and America throughout the Victorian era. But as the handmade screen yielded to industrial production, the whimsical artifact of the elite classes was suddenly transformed into an item for mass consumption. Historic examples are now a rarity, but in Baltimore the folk art is still very much alive. The Painted Screens of Baltimore takes a first look at this beloved icon of one major American city through the words and images of dozens of self-taught artists who trace their creations to the capable and unlikely brush of one Bohemian immigrant, William Oktavec. In 1913, this corner grocer began a family dynasty inspired generations of artists who continue his craft to this day. The book examines the roots of painted wire cloth, the ethnic communities where painted screens have been at home for a century, and the future of this art form.

Author : Elaine Eff
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781496803924

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The Painted Screens of Baltimore by Elaine Eff Pdf

Painted screens have long been synonymous in the popular imagination with the Baltimore row house. Picturesque, practical, and quirky, window and door screens adorned with scenic views simultaneously offer privacy and ventilation in crowded neighborhoods. As an urban folk art, painted screens flourished in Baltimore, though they did not originate there—precursors date to early eighteenth-century London. They were a fixture on fine homes and businesses in Europe and America throughout the Victorian era. But as the handmade screen yielded to industrial production, the whimsical artifact of the elite classes was suddenly transformed into an item for mass consumption. Historic examples are now a rarity, but in Baltimore the folk art is still very much alive. The Painted Screens of Baltimore takes a first look at this beloved icon of one major American city through the words and images of dozens of self-taught artists who trace their creations to the capable and unlikely brush of one Bohemian immigrant, William Oktavec. In 1913, this corner grocer began a family dynasty inspired generations of artists who continue his craft to this day. The book examines the roots of painted wire cloth, the ethnic communities where painted screens have been at home for a century, and the future of this art form.

Author : Paul K. Williams
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781909108431

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Lost Baltimore by Paul K. Williams Pdf

Lost Baltimore is the latest in the series from Anova Books that traces the cherished places in a city that time, progress and fashion have swept aside before the National Register of Historic Places could save them from the wrecker's ball.Organised chronologically starting with the earliest losses and ending with the latest, the book features much-loved Philadelphia insitutions that failed to stand the test of time, such as the Sun Iron Building, Electric Amusement Park and the Rennert Hotel.Grand buildings erected in the Victorian era that were too costly to be refurbished, or movie theaters that the age of television made redundant are featured. Alongside the city's iconic and much-missed buildings, Lost Baltimore also looks at some traditions that have passed (marble doorsteps, painted window screens) and sporting legends that have relocated (Baltimore Colts, Baltimore Bullets).Lost Baltimore is a nostalgic journey back in time to visit some of the lost treasures that the city let slip through its grasp.

Author : Jen Swearington
Publisher : Lark Books (NC)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Textile design
ISBN : 1454703946

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Printing on Fabric by Jen Swearington Pdf

With a screen and squeegee in hand, you can transfer texture with wax, quickly apply simple stencils, or jump right into printing vivid, detailed images using photo emulsion. In this highly illustrated book, award-winning quilter and garment designer Jen Swearington covers all this and more. She also teaches print placement: learn how to layer prints, imply repeats to trick the eye, and plan precise repeats for yardage. Then explore the creative world of color with options exclusive to fabric-print with vibrant thickened dyes, bleach resists, and more. A wide variety of inventive projects in a range of sizes, from baby clothes to furniture, are sure to inspire your own print sessions. Book jacket.

Author : Elaine Eff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Baltimore (Md.)
ISBN : OCLC:1325294012

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The Painted Screens of Baltimore, Maryland by Elaine Eff Pdf

Author : Nanna Verhoeff
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789089643797

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Mobile Screens by Nanna Verhoeff Pdf

"Nanna Verhoeff's new book is a must for anybody interested in visual culture and media theory. It offers a rich and stimulating theoretical account of the central dimension of our contemporary existence--interfacing and navigating both data and physical world through a variety of screens (game consoles, mobile phones, car interfaces, GPS devices, etc.). In the process of exploring these new screen practices, Verhoeff offers fresh perspectives on many of the key questions in media and new media studies as well as a number of new original theoretical concepts. As the first theoretical manual for the society of mobile screens, this book will become an essential reference for all future investigations of our mobile screen condition.--Lev Manovich."--Publisher's description.

Author : Ramsey Beyer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781936976188

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Little Fish by Ramsey Beyer Pdf

Ramsey Beyer adjusts to life at college and in the big city - one imaginative and quirky list at a time

Author : Gillian Wilson
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780892360505

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Selections from the Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Gillian Wilson Pdf

J. Paul Getty began to collect French decorative arts in the 1930s and continued to do so until his death in 1976. The Museum’s collection has continued to grow since then at a rapid pace and contains over three hundred individual pieces at the time this book is published. This volume illustrates fifty of them. The selection represents a cross section of the collection, which covers the period from approximately 1660 to 1800. In the eighteenth century it became fashionable in Parisian society to decorate the interiors of houses with Far Eastern materials such as lacquer and porcelain. This taste was catered to by the marchands-merciers, members of a guild who combined the functions of the modern interior decorator, the antique dealer, and the picture dealer. These men devised highly ingenious settings for Far Eastern porcelains to adapt their exotic character to the French interiors of the period. Information about them and their clientele has been used in cataloguing the Getty Museum’s collection of mounted oriental porcelain, which is large and of high quality. This book is not a catalogue, nor is it a mere picture book or checklist. Each piece has been chosen because it represents a particular aspect of the crafts involved in the production of objects that were made by Parisian craftsmen for the crown, the nobility, and the rich bourgeoisie. The pieces are arranged in chronological order. Translations of the French archival extracts, an index, and a concise bibliography have been provided.

Author : William Ferris
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469607559

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The Storied South by William Ferris Pdf

The Storied South features the voices--by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing--of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in the American cultural firmament, from Eudora Welty, Pete Seeger, and Alice Walker to William Eggleston, Bobby Rush, and C. Vann Woodward. Masterfully drawn from one-on-one interviews conducted by renowned folklorist William Ferris over the past forty years, the book reveals how storytelling is viscerally tied to southern identity and how the work of these southern or southern-inspired creators has shaped the way Americans think and talk about the South. The Storied South offers a unique, intimate opportunity to sit at the table with these men and women and learn how they worked and how they perceived their art. The volume also features 45 of Ferris's striking photographic portraits of the speakers and a CD and a DVD of original audio and films of the interviews.

Author : Rita DeSales French,Perrin Lindol French,Irvin F. Lin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Annapolis (Md.)
ISBN : 0972359001

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Baltimore's Own Little Italy Artist by Rita DeSales French,Perrin Lindol French,Irvin F. Lin Pdf

This is an inspirational story of a man who expressed his artistic talents and who put relationships before all other pursuits. He chatted with celebrities who dined in the Italian restaurants. He did errands for the older ladies in the neighborhood and influenced young people. He took care of his invalid mother, who accompanied him on the corner while he worked. He gave tourists postcards with his sketches on them to mail back to him when they arrived home.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Folklore
ISBN : MINN:31951T00115857C

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Folklife Annual by Anonim Pdf

Author : Riva Castleman
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0810961814

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A Century of Artists Books by Riva Castleman Pdf

Published to accompany the 1994 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book constitutes the most extensive survey of modern illustrated books to be offered in many years. Work by artists from Pierre Bonnard to Barbara Kruger and writers from Guillaume Apollinarie to Susan Sontag. An importnt reference for collectors and connoisseurs. Includes notable works by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.

Author : Linda Patricia Cleary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1320549438

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Day of the Artist by Linda Patricia Cleary Pdf

One girl, one painting a day...can she do it? Linda Patricia Cleary decided to challenge herself with a year long project starting on January 1, 2014. Choose an artist a day and create a piece in tribute to them. It was a fun, challenging, stressful and psychological experience. She learned about technique, art history, different materials and embracing failure. Here are all 365 pieces. Enjoy!

Author : Judy Colbert
Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781681060132

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100 Things to Do in Baltimore Before You Die by Judy Colbert Pdf

100 Things to Do in Baltimore Before You Die explores the must-do and must-see parts of Charm City for visitors who have a few minutes or a few days and for those who are visiting for the first time and those who visit regularly. It digs a little deeper for residents who have been here for a decade or an entire lifetime, marking such unusual aspects of the usual as the revolutionary layout of the Contemporary Wing of the BMA that set as much a trend in design as Orioles Park at Camden Yards did for retro designs of baseball stadia. 100 Things to Do in Baltimore Before You Die explores the popularity of snoballs, Rheb’s candies, and Natty Boh beer and fuels the continuing debate about where to find the best crab cake and pit beef. There’s also a note about the best places to watch Inner Harbor July 4 and New Year’s Eve fireworks.

Author : Hannah B Higgins
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-23
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780262512404

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The Grid Book by Hannah B Higgins Pdf

Ten grids that changed the world: the emergence and evolution of the most prominent visual structure in Western culture. Emblematic of modernity, the grid is the underlying form of everything from skyscrapers and office cubicles to paintings by Mondrian and a piece of computer code. And yet, as Hannah Higgins makes clear in this engaging and evocative book, the grid has a history that long predates modernity; it is the most prominent visual structure in Western culture. In The Grid Book, Higgins examines the history of ten grids that changed the world: the brick, the tablet, the gridiron city plan, the map, musical notation, the ledger, the screen, moveable type, the manufactured box, and the net. Charting the evolution of each grid, from the Paleolithic brick of ancient Mesopotamia through the virtual connections of the Internet, Higgins demonstrates that once a grid is invented, it may bend, crumble, or shatter, but its organizing principle never disappears. The appearance of each grid was a watershed event. Brick, tablet, and city gridiron made possible sturdy housing, the standardization of language, and urban development. Maps, musical notation, financial ledgers, and moveable type promoted the organization of space, music, and time, international trade, and mass literacy. The screen of perspective painting heralded the science of the modern period, classical mechanics, and the screen arts, while the standardization of space made possible by the manufactured box suggested the purified box forms of industrial architecture and visual art. The net, the most ancient grid, made its first appearance in Stone Age Finland; today, the loose but clearly articulated networks of the World Wide Web suggest that we are in the middle of an emergent grid that is reshaping the world, as grids do, in its image.