ゲスナー・ライブラリー所蔵欧文書誌文献目錄
Author : Yushodo Gesner Library
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN :
Dictionary Catalog of the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, Brown University Library, Providence, Rhode Island
Author : Brown University. Library
Publisher :
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 1972
Category : American drama
ISBN :
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Each Wild Idea
Author : Geoffrey Batchen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 25,65 MB
Release : 2002-02-22
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780262523240
Book Description
Essays on photography and the medium's history and evolving identity. In Each Wild Idea, Geoffrey Batchen explores a wide range of photographic subjects, from the timing of the medium's invention to the various implications of cyberculture. Along the way, he reflects on contemporary art photography, the role of the vernacular in photography's history, and the Australianness of Australian photography. The essays all focus on a consideration of specific photographs—from a humble combination of baby photos and bronzed booties to a masterwork by Alfred Stieglitz. Although Batchen views each photograph within the context of broader social and political forces, he also engages its own distinctive formal attributes. In short, he sees photography as something that is simultaneously material and cultural. In an effort to evoke the lived experience of history, he frequently relies on sheer description as the mode of analysis, insisting that we look right at—rather than beyond—the photograph being discussed. A constant theme throughout the book is the question of photography's past, present, and future identity.
Around the World Submerged
Author : Edward L. Beach
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,26 MB
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1612511988
Book Description
When the nuclear-powered submarine USS Triton was commissioned in November 1959, its commanding officer, Captain Edward L. Beach, planned a routine shakedown cruise in the North Atlantic. Two weeks before the scheduled cruise, however, Beach was summoned to Washington and told of the immediate necessity to prove the reliability of the Rickover-conceived submarine. His new secret orders were to take the Triton around the world, entirely submerged the total distance. This is Beach's gripping firsthand account of what went on during the 36,000 nautical-mile voyage whose record for speed and endurance still stands today. It brings to life the many tense events in the historic journey: the malfunction of the essential fathometer that indicated the location of undersea mountains and shallow waters, the sudden agonizing illness of a senior petty officer, and the serious problems with the ship's main hydraulic oil system. Intensely dramatic, Beach's chronicle also describes the psychological stresses of the journey and some touching moments shared by the crew. A skillful story teller, he recounts the experience in such detail that readers feel they have been along for the ride of a lifetime.
War Photographs Taken on the Battlefields of the Civil War
Author : Mathew B. Brady
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1626363102
Book Description
Fought over the course of four years, the Civil War pitted countrymen against countrymen, North versus South, friend against friend, and brother against brother. The photographs within these pages document the war that united America as one. These rare shots were taken in the middle of the battlefield during the earliest days of photography. Selected from a collection of seven thousand original negatives, these historic photos capture nearly every aspect of Civil War life. Among these photos are images of camps sprawling across acres, soldiers at their battlements, firing of heavy artillery, the aftermath of battle, and the terror that these young men faced. See first-hand of Union and Confederate officers strategizing their next moves, and Abraham Lincoln addressing his Union commanders. Originally released from the private collection of Edward Bailey Eaton in 1907, this edition is a must have for any Civil War buff or historian. No collection can be considered complete without these photographs by Matthew Brady and Alexander Gardner, as well as the meticulous passages that put the images in illuminating context.
American Naive Paintings
Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 43,77 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521443012
Book Description
One of a series of systematic catalogues of the National Gallery of Art's collection, this comprehensive volume discusses in detail 310 objects that comprise one of the world's outstanding repositories of American naive paintings. Works by renowned folk artists such as Edward Hicks, Erastus Salisbury Field, and Ammi Phillips are represented in depth and placed in stylistic as well as historical context. This catalogue is an indispensable tool for historians of Amerian painting and folk art, and for students of American life and culture. Thorough documentation and commentary are provided for the first time on some of the most intriguing images produced in America in the past two hundred years.
Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists [electronic Resource]
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 24,85 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Artists
ISBN :
Book Description
Scope includes artists who were born, or artistically active, in Kansas.
American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century
Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 10,25 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN :
Book Description
The energy and optimism of the new nation are abundantly apparent in this catalogue. It features some of the icons of American art, such as John Singleton Copley's The Copley Family and Gilbert Stuart's portraits of the first five presidents. Numerous paintings, including Benjamin West's Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill), are discussed from a new perspective, the result of information culled from letters, wills, and other previously unpublished documents. The author offers new interpretations of some works, among them Charles Willson Peale's portrait of the Baltimore couple Benjamin and Eleanor Ridgely Laming. The volume is richly illustrated, with carefully selected comparative illustrations.
Objects and Others
Author : George W. Stocking
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 1988-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0299103234
Book Description
History of Anthropology is a series of annual volumes, inaugurated in 1983, each of which treats an important theme in the history of anthropological inquiry. Objects and Others, the third volume, focuses on a number of questions relating to the history of museums and material culture studies: the interaction of museum arrangement and anthropological theory; the tension between anthropological research and popular education; the contribution of museum ethnography to aesthetic practice; the relationship of humanistic and anthropological culture, and of ethnic artifact and fine art; and, more generally, the representation of culture in material objects. As the first work to cover the development of museum anthropology since the mid-nineteenth century, it will be of great interest and value not only to anthropologist, museologists, and historians of science and the social sciences, but also to those interested in "primitive" art and its reception in the Western world.
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher :
Page : 2868 pages
File Size : 29,89 MB
Release :
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
