The Vanished Ruin Era
Author : Louis John Stellman
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Page : 77 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Earthquakes
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Author : Louis John Stellman
Publisher :
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Earthquakes
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Author : Louis J 1877-1961 Stellman
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,85 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
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ISBN : 9781019179338
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Author : Miles Orvell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 13,31 MB
Release : 2021-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0190491612
Once symbols of the past, ruins have become ubiquitous signs of our future. Americans today encounter ruins in the media on a daily basis--images of abandoned factories and malls, toxic landscapes, devastating fires, hurricanes, and floods. In this sweeping study, Miles Orvell offers a new understanding of the spectacle of ruins in US culture, exploring how photographers, writers, painters, and filmmakers have responded to ruin and destruction, both real and imaginary, in an effort to make sense of the past and envision the future. Empire of Ruins explains why Americans in the nineteenth century yearned for the ruins of Rome and Egypt and how they portrayed a past as ancient and mysterious in the remains of Native American cultures. As the romance of ruins gave way to twentieth-century capitalism, older structures were demolished to make way for grander ones, a process interpreted by artists as a symptom of America's "creative destruction." In the late twentieth century, Americans began to inhabit a perpetual state of ruins, made visible by photographs of decaying inner cities, derelict factories and malls, and the waste lands of the mining industry. This interdisciplinary work focuses on how visual media have transformed disaster and decay into spectacles that compel our moral attention even as they balance horror and beauty. Looking to the future, Orvell considers the visual portrayal of climate ruins as we face the political and ethical responsibilities of our changing world. A wide-ranging work by an acclaimed urban, cultural, and photography scholar, Empire of Ruins offers a provocative and lavishly illustrated look at the American past, present, and future.
Author : Hélène Valance
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 39,11 MB
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300224141
A beautifully illustrated look at the vogue for night landscapes amid the social, political, and technological changes of modern America The turn of the 20th century witnessed a surge in the creation and popularity of nocturnes and night landscapes in American art. In this original and thought-provoking book, Hélène Valance investigates why artists and viewers of the era were so captivated by the night. Nocturne examines works by artists such as James McNeill Whistler, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Frederic Remington, Edward Steichen, and Henry Ossawa Tanner through the lens of the scientific developments and social issues that dominated the period. Valance argues that the success of the genre is connected to the resonance between the night and the many forces that affected the era, including technological advances that expanded the realm of the visible, such as electric lighting and photography; Jim Crow–era race relations; America’s closing frontier and imperialism abroad; and growing anxiety about identity and social values amid rapid urbanization. This absorbing study features 150 illustrations encompassing paintings, photographs, prints, scientific illustration, advertising, and popular media to explore the predilection for night imagery as a sign of the times.
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Page : 1428 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 1911
Category : American literature
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Author : California Historical Society
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Page : 222 pages
File Size : 34,57 MB
Release : 1970
Category : California
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Page : 1860 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 1910
Category : American literature
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Author : California Historical Society
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 36,61 MB
Release : 1970
Category : California
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Newsletter of the Society. Contains brief articles on historical documents and on Society meetings and business. Included are auction catalogs.
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Page : 1164 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 1910
Category : American literature
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Page : 1098 pages
File Size : 18,50 MB
Release : 1910
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