The Majesty of St. Charles Avenue Postcard Book
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Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company Incorporated
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 2001-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781565549005
Author :
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company Incorporated
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 2001-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781565549005
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Page : 3054 pages
File Size : 18,73 MB
Release : 2001
Category : American literature
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Author : Ed Bowker Staff
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
Page : 3274 pages
File Size : 15,70 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780835246422
Author : Matthew Griffis
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 16,89 MB
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1496830288
New Orleans in Golden Age Postcards showcases over three hundred vintage postcard images of the city, printed in glorious color. From popular tourist attractions, restaurants, and grand hotels to local businesses, banks, churches, neighborhoods, civic buildings, and parks, the book not only celebrates these cards’ visual beauty but also considers their historic value. After providing an overview of the history of postcards in New Orleans, Matthew Griffis expertly arranges and describes the postcards by subject or theme. Focusing on the period from 1900 to 1920, the book is the first to offer information about the cards’ many publishers. More than a century ago, people sent postcards like we make phone calls today. Many also collected postcards, even trading them in groups or clubs. Adorned with colorized views of urban and rural landscapes, postcards offered people a chance to own images of places they lived, visited, or merely dreamed of visiting. Today, these relics remain one of the richest visual records of the last century as they offer a glimpse at the ways a city represented itself. They now appear regularly in art exhibits, blogs, and research collections. Many of the cards in this book have not been widely seen in well over a century, and many of the places and traditions they depict have long since vanished.
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Page : 916 pages
File Size : 27,5 MB
Release : 1911
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Author : James Silk Buckingham
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Page : 876 pages
File Size : 20,26 MB
Release : 1897
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Author : Rose Arny
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Page : 1422 pages
File Size : 25,60 MB
Release : 2001-08
Category : American literature
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Author : Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 28,75 MB
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892367857
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
Author : McCaffety, Kerri
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781455608201
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Page : 896 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Arts
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