Author: Kathleen Ewing
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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"[An] exceptionally handsome and informative book. It contains 68 photographs, a representative sample of Bodine's work along with intelligent commentary... For readers who have known his work for years and for those coming to it for the first time, it is an eminently rewarding and pleasurable book." -- Washington Post
Author: Elaine Eff
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496803922
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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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: Jack Salzman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521365598
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
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This volume supplements the acclaimed three volume set published in 1986 and consists of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1984 and 1988. There are more than 6,000 descriptive entries in a wide range of categories: anthropology and folklore, art and architecture, history, literature, music, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, science and technology, and sociology.
Author: William Hand Browne
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Includes the proceedings of the Society.
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Catalog of the George H. Thompson Collection of Henry Louis Mencken at the Sheridan Libraries of the Johns Hopkins University.
Author: William B. Cronin
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801874352
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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An appendix documents the many small islands that have dropped entirely from view since the seventeenth century.
Author: Walter Lord
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421405474
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Sheads, a National Park Service ranger and specialist on the event, introduces the book, which will remain a popular favorite for years to come.
Author: Stephen Perloff
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Category : Photography, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Author: New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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