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"An investigation of the origin, development & practices of 19th century American photograph albums, this book argues that the family album helped to transform the nature of self- presentation at the cusp of modernity"--OCLC
Author : Elizabeth Siegel
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,89 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
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"An investigation of the origin, development & practices of 19th century American photograph albums, this book argues that the family album helped to transform the nature of self- presentation at the cusp of modernity"--OCLC
Author : Elizabeth Siegel
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Page : 540 pages
File Size : 29,99 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Carte de visite photographs
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Author : Elizabeth Siegel
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Page : 208 pages
File Size : 37,10 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art
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This title examines comprehensively the little-known phenomenon of Victorian photocollage, presenting imagery that has rarely - and in many cases, never - been displayed or reproduced.
Author : Benita Eisler
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 41,70 MB
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 039324086X
The first biography in over sixty years of a great American artist whose paintings are more famous than the man who made them. George Catlin has been called the “first artist of the West,” as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. After a false start as a painter of miniatures, Catlin found his calling: to fix the image of a “vanishing race” before their “extermination”—his word—by a government greedy for their lands. In the first six years of the 1830s, he created over six hundred portraits—unforgettable likenesses of individual chiefs, warriors, braves, squaws, and children belonging to more than thirty tribes living along the upper Missouri River. Political forces thwarted Catlin’s ambition to sell what he called his “Indian Gallery” as a national collection, and in 1840 the artist began three decades of self-imposed exile abroad. For a time, his exhibitions and writings made him the most celebrated American expatriate in London and Paris. He was toasted by Queen Victoria and breakfasted with King Louis-Philippe, who created a special gallery in the Louvre to show his pictures. But when he started to tour “live” troupes of Ojibbewa and Iowa, Catlin and his fortunes declined: He changed from artist to showman, and from advocate to exploiter of his native performers. Tragedy and loss engulfed both. This brilliant and humane portrait brings to life George Catlin and his Indian subjects for our own time. An American original, he still personifies the artist as a figure of controversy, torn by conflicting demands of art and success.
Author : Laura Hinton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 18,26 MB
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1498528740
One a lyric "confessional" poet and essayist, the other a jazz "spoken-word" performance artist, Adrienne Rich and Jayne Cortez were American feminist superheroes who produced extensive bodies of poetic work that reveal strangely overlapping visions, but in radically different voices and poetic styles. This book reconsiders the poetry activism of Cortez and Rich side-by-side, engaging poetics theory, cultural studies, and popular media in its literary analyses. A collection of eight integrated chapters by multiple poetry critics, as well as an artist-statement narrative by Wonder Woman sculptor Linda Stein, the book focuses upon the voice of bravado, the various calls for global justice, and Third Wave feminist "intersectional" critiques all embodied within these two women's poetic texts. The book also examines the twentieth-century figure of the American superhero, particularly Wonder Woman, bringing popular-culture studies into conversation with literary criticism, as well as visual art through the inclusion of Stein's commentary and illustrations. This beautiful and compelling book experiments with the festschrift concept by inviting multiple and competing disciplinary views on U.S. feminist poetics, women's art and aesthetics, racial and sexual identities, as well as politics and performance—all in tribute to the power of poetry by Cortez and Rich.
Author : Louie Kemp
Publisher : Westrose Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781733001212
"'It was at summer camp in northern Wisconsin in 1953 that I first met Bobby Zimmerman from Hibbing. He was twelve years old and he had a guitar. He would go around telling everybody that he was going to be a rock-and-roll star. I was eleven and I believed him.' So begins this honest, funny, and deeply affectionate memoir of a friendship that has spanned five decades of wild adventures, soul searching conversation, musical milestones, and enduring comradery. As Bobby Zimmerman became Bob Dylan and Louie Kemp built a successful international business, their lives diverged but their friendship held fast. No matter how much time passed between one adventure and the next, the two "boys from the North Country" picked up where they left off and shared experiences that will surprise and delight Dylan fans and anybody who loves a rollicking-good rock-and-roll memoir."--Dust jacket flap.
Author : William Henry Davenport Adams
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Page : 328 pages
File Size : 25,67 MB
Release : 1865
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Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 1819
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Page : 552 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 1886
Category : American poetry
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Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,6 MB
Release : 1811
Category : Artists
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