Author: Frederic Remington
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486207148
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
A collection of works by the American painter and illustrator who vividly depicted the landscape, men, and social climate of the Old West
173 Drawings and Illustrations
Author: Frederic Remington
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486207148
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
A collection of works by the American painter and illustrator who vividly depicted the landscape, men, and social climate of the Old West
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486207148
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
A collection of works by the American painter and illustrator who vividly depicted the landscape, men, and social climate of the Old West
Great Drawings and Illustrations from Punch, 1841-1901
Author: Stanley Appelbaum
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486241104
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
192 drawings by 25 artists: Phiz, Leech, Tenniel, du Maurier, Sambourne.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486241104
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
192 drawings by 25 artists: Phiz, Leech, Tenniel, du Maurier, Sambourne.
Great Portrait Drawings and Prints
Author: Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486434025
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
One hundred and one stunning portraits, 16 in color, by a select group of world-famous artists. Color portraits include Rubens' Young Woman with Crossed Hands, Rossetti's Aurea Catena (Portrait of Mrs. Morris), and Renoir's Portrait of Cézanne. Black-and-white plates include works by Matisse, Bellini, Delacroix, van Gogh, Schiele, Degas, and others.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486434025
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
One hundred and one stunning portraits, 16 in color, by a select group of world-famous artists. Color portraits include Rubens' Young Woman with Crossed Hands, Rossetti's Aurea Catena (Portrait of Mrs. Morris), and Renoir's Portrait of Cézanne. Black-and-white plates include works by Matisse, Bellini, Delacroix, van Gogh, Schiele, Degas, and others.
Lee the American
Author: Gamaliel Bradford
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486147606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Sympathetic portrait of an enigmatic man who was a model of decorum and honor, a moderate on the issue of secession, and a fierce yet chivalrous soldier. 10 black-and-white illustrations.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486147606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Sympathetic portrait of an enigmatic man who was a model of decorum and honor, a moderate on the issue of secession, and a fierce yet chivalrous soldier. 10 black-and-white illustrations.
True Tales of the South at War
Author: Clarence Poe
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048613931X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
DIVTreasury of reminiscences includes battlefield correspondence, diary entries, journals kept on the homefront, stories told to children and grandchildren, more. Intimate, compelling record. /div
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048613931X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
DIVTreasury of reminiscences includes battlefield correspondence, diary entries, journals kept on the homefront, stories told to children and grandchildren, more. Intimate, compelling record. /div
Lewis and Clark and the Image of the American Northwest
Author: John Logan Allen
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486269146
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The author traces how Lewis and Clark's epic journey of 1804–06 and their charting of the American Northwest dramatically revised generally held concepts of the area's geography. With 45 maps. "Splendidly researched and highly readable" — Donald Jackson, editor of the Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486269146
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The author traces how Lewis and Clark's epic journey of 1804–06 and their charting of the American Northwest dramatically revised generally held concepts of the area's geography. With 45 maps. "Splendidly researched and highly readable" — Donald Jackson, editor of the Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Salem Witchcraft
Author: Charles Wentworth Upham
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486408996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Painstakingly researched history of Salem village and the notorious witchcraft trials held there in the late 17th century. Upham not only supplies valuable information on Salem's legislative and economic problems, but also recounts details of local hostilities that sowed the seeds of suspicion, fear and resentment among villagers, and helped fuel the witch hunt. A fascinating, classic account of one of the darkest episodes in early American history.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486408996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Painstakingly researched history of Salem village and the notorious witchcraft trials held there in the late 17th century. Upham not only supplies valuable information on Salem's legislative and economic problems, but also recounts details of local hostilities that sowed the seeds of suspicion, fear and resentment among villagers, and helped fuel the witch hunt. A fascinating, classic account of one of the darkest episodes in early American history.
The Confederate Reader
Author: Richard Barksdale Harwell
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486259802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
This wonderful self-portrait of the Confederacy is filled with carefully chosen and annotated selection of contemporary battle reports, general orders, letters, articles, sermons, songs, travel observations, and much more. Illustrated. "...an excellent anthology, worthy of the imitations it will engender." — The New York Times.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486259802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
This wonderful self-portrait of the Confederacy is filled with carefully chosen and annotated selection of contemporary battle reports, general orders, letters, articles, sermons, songs, travel observations, and much more. Illustrated. "...an excellent anthology, worthy of the imitations it will engender." — The New York Times.
A Manual of Historic Ornament
Author: Richard Glazier
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486149366
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Hundreds of detailed illustrations depict painted pilasters from Pompeii, early Gothic stone carvings, a detail from a stained glass window in Canterbury Cathedral, more. Over 700 black-and-white illustrations, 16 plates of photographs.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486149366
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Hundreds of detailed illustrations depict painted pilasters from Pompeii, early Gothic stone carvings, a detail from a stained glass window in Canterbury Cathedral, more. Over 700 black-and-white illustrations, 16 plates of photographs.
Film Genre Reader IV
Author: Barry Keith Grant
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292745745
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 785
Book Description
From reviews of the third edition: “Film Genre Reader III lives up to the high expectations set by its predecessors, providing an accessible and relatively comprehensive look at genre studies. The anthology’s consideration of the advantages and challenges of genre studies, as well as its inclusion of various film genres and methodological approaches, presents a pedagogically useful overview.” —Scope Since 1986, Film Genre Reader has been the standard reference and classroom text for the study of genre in film, with more than 25,000 copies sold. Barry Keith Grant has again revised and updated the book to reflect the most recent developments in genre study. This fourth edition adds new essays on genre definition and cycles, action movies, science fiction, and heritage films, along with a comprehensive and updated bibliography. The volume includes more than thirty essays by some of film’s most distinguished critics and scholars of popular cinema, including Charles Ramírez Berg, John G. Cawelti, Celestino Deleyto, David Desser, Thomas Elsaesser, Steve Neale, Thomas Schatz, Paul Schrader, Vivian Sobchack, Janet Staiger, Linda Williams, and Robin Wood.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292745745
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 785
Book Description
From reviews of the third edition: “Film Genre Reader III lives up to the high expectations set by its predecessors, providing an accessible and relatively comprehensive look at genre studies. The anthology’s consideration of the advantages and challenges of genre studies, as well as its inclusion of various film genres and methodological approaches, presents a pedagogically useful overview.” —Scope Since 1986, Film Genre Reader has been the standard reference and classroom text for the study of genre in film, with more than 25,000 copies sold. Barry Keith Grant has again revised and updated the book to reflect the most recent developments in genre study. This fourth edition adds new essays on genre definition and cycles, action movies, science fiction, and heritage films, along with a comprehensive and updated bibliography. The volume includes more than thirty essays by some of film’s most distinguished critics and scholars of popular cinema, including Charles Ramírez Berg, John G. Cawelti, Celestino Deleyto, David Desser, Thomas Elsaesser, Steve Neale, Thomas Schatz, Paul Schrader, Vivian Sobchack, Janet Staiger, Linda Williams, and Robin Wood.