Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Languages : en
Pages : 738
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Early spring in Massachusetts and Summer
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 738
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 738
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Catalogue
Author: Walters, Frank, Firm, Booksellers, New York
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Languages : en
Pages : 908
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Languages : en
Pages : 908
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A Time to Every Purpose
Author: Michael Kammen
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469626020
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
In artworks from a mosaic by Marc Chagall to schoolchildren's paintings, in writings from Susan Fenimore Cooper to Annie Dillard, and in diverse print sources from family genealogical registers to seed catalogs, the four seasons appear and reappear as a theme in American culture. In this richly illustrated book, Michael Kammen traces the appeal of the four seasons motif in American popular culture and fine arts from the seventeenth century to the present. Its symbolism has evolved through the years, Kammen explains, serving as a metaphor for the human life cycle or religious faith, expressing nostalgia for rural life, and sometimes praising seasonal beauty in the diverse American landscape as the most spectacular in the world. Kammen also highlights artists' and writers' shift in attention from the glories of seasonal peaks to the dynamics of seasonal transitions as American life continued to accelerate and change through the twentieth century. Few symbols have been as pervasive, meaningful, and symptomatic in the human experience as the four seasons, and as Kammen shows, in its American context the annual cycle has been an abundant and abiding source of inspiration in the nation's cultural history.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469626020
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
In artworks from a mosaic by Marc Chagall to schoolchildren's paintings, in writings from Susan Fenimore Cooper to Annie Dillard, and in diverse print sources from family genealogical registers to seed catalogs, the four seasons appear and reappear as a theme in American culture. In this richly illustrated book, Michael Kammen traces the appeal of the four seasons motif in American popular culture and fine arts from the seventeenth century to the present. Its symbolism has evolved through the years, Kammen explains, serving as a metaphor for the human life cycle or religious faith, expressing nostalgia for rural life, and sometimes praising seasonal beauty in the diverse American landscape as the most spectacular in the world. Kammen also highlights artists' and writers' shift in attention from the glories of seasonal peaks to the dynamics of seasonal transitions as American life continued to accelerate and change through the twentieth century. Few symbols have been as pervasive, meaningful, and symptomatic in the human experience as the four seasons, and as Kammen shows, in its American context the annual cycle has been an abundant and abiding source of inspiration in the nation's cultural history.
Early Spring in Massachusetts
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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A History of American Literature
Author: Percy Holmes Boynton
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Statistical Bulletin
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Statistical Bulletin
Author: Ronald Bird
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries
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Category : Fish culture
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
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Category : Fish culture
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
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Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Fisheries
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Category : Fish-culture
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Category : Fish-culture
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Plankton of the Offshore Waters of the Gulf of Maine
Author: Henry Bryant Bigelow
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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