Author: Keith Eggener
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134399251
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Offering some 30 essays, this volume concentrates on recent writings by historians of American architecture & urbanism. The essays are arranged chronologically from colonial to contemporary & accessible in thematic groupings.
Author: William Dunlap
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332223827
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States Vol. 2 of 3 is written by William Dunlap who was a pioneer of American theater. Dunlap was a producer, actor, playwright, and historian in addition to his role as Vice President of the National Academy of Design. His extensive career in the arts and his experience as an historian makes him a valuable expert in the field, and the perfect author for this three book series. This book stands out as a wonderful resource for historians, artists, and art enthusiasts because of the well-spring of historic information it provides. The text discusses specific artists, collections, and the life of the artist during the colonial and federal periods in America history. All forms of art are explored in this series including architecture, painting, and woodwork to name a few; this particular volume also includes many illustrations to help the reader understand the concepts that are explored within the text. Finally, The book also comes with a full appendix at the back of the publication which makes the text easily searchable for specific concepts that the reader might want to focus on exclusively. A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States Vol. 2 of 3 stands out as a beautifully written book full of invaluable information about American history and the arts. This book is expertly written by a foremost leader in the field of art history and design. The text is approachable to readers of any level of interest in the topics presented within. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588396401
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Thomas Cole (1801–1848) is celebrated as the greatest American landscape artist of his generation. Though previous scholarship has emphasized the American aspects of his formation and identity, never before has the British-born artist been presented as an international figure, in direct dialogue with the major landscape painters of the age. Thomas Cole’s Journey emphasizes the artist’s travels in England and Italy from 1829 to 1832 and his crucial interactions with such painters as Turner and Constable. For the first time, it explores the artist’s most renowned paintings, The Oxbow (1836) and The Course of Empire cycle (1834–36), as the culmination of his European experiences and of his abiding passion for the American wilderness. The four essays in this lavishly illustrated catalogue examine how Cole’s first-hand knowledge of the British industrial revolution and his study of the Roman Empire positioned him to create works that offer a distinctive, even dissident, response to the economic and political rise of the United States, the ecological and economic changes then underway, and the dangers that faced the young nation. A detailed chronology of Cole’s life, focusing on his European tour, retraces the artist’s travels as documented in his journals, letters, and sketchbooks, providing new insight into his encounters and observations. With discussions of over seventy works by Cole, as well as by the artists he admired and influenced, this book allows us to view his work in relation to his European antecedents and competitors, demonstrating his major contribution to the history of Western art.
Author: Patricia Tyson Stroud
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812290429
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 293
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Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples and Spain, claimed that he had never wanted the overpowering roles thrust upon him by his illustrious younger brother Napoleon. Left to his own devices, he would probably have been a lawyer in his native Corsica, a country gentleman with leisure to read the great literature he treasured and oversee the maintenance of his property. When Napoleon's downfall forced Joseph into exile, he was able to become that country gentleman at last, but in a place he could scarcely have imagined. It comes as a surprise to most people that Joseph spent seventeen years in the United States following Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo. In The Man Who Had Been King, Patricia Tyson Stroud has written a rich account—drawing on unpublished Bonaparte family letters—of this American exile, much of it passed in regal splendor high above the banks of the Delaware River in New Jersey. Upon his escape from France in 1815, Joseph arrived in the new land with a fortune in hand and shortly embarked upon building and fitting out the magnificent New Jersey estate he called Point Breeze. The palatial house was filled with paintings and sculpture by such luminaries as David, Canova, Rubens, and Titian. The surrounding park extended to 1,800 acres of luxuriously landscaped gardens, with twelve miles of carriage roads, an artificial lake, and a network of subterranean tunnels that aroused much local speculation. Stroud recounts how Joseph became friend and host to many of the nation's wealthiest and most cultivated citizens, and how his art collection played a crucial role in transmitting high European taste to America. He never ceased longing for his homeland, however. Despite his republican airs, he never stopped styling himself as "the Count de Survilliers," a noble title he fabricated on his first flight from France in 1814, when Napoleon was exiled to Elba, nor did he ever learn more than rudimentary English. Although he would repeatedly plead with his wife to join him, he was not a faithful husband, and Stroud narrates his affairs with an American and a Frenchwoman, both of whom bore him children. Yet he continued to feel the separation from his two legitimate daughters keenly and never stopped plotting to ensure the dynastic survival of the Bonapartes. In the end, the man who had been king returned to Europe, where he was eventually interred next to the tomb of his brother in Les Invalides. But the legacy of Joseph Bonaparte in America remains, and it is this that Patricia Tyson Stroud has masterfully uncovered in a book that is sure to appeal to lovers of art and gardens and European and American history.
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Languages : en
Pages : 1614
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2576
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Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 786
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Includes section: Notes and reviews.
Author: Wendy A. Cooper
Publisher: Abbeville Press
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Middle class. From elegant Grecian couches with Roman paw feet, to diminutive pressed glass salts ornamented with classical chariots and cornucopia, few aspects of American material life escaped the classical craze. The text of this fascinating volume delves into the symbolic and material significance of classicism in American life, the adaptation antique forms and motifs by American craftsmen and consumers, and the vernacularization of classicism. The material.
Author: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Museum
ISBN: 9780870705045
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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