Author: Russell Lynes
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Good Old Modern
Author: Russell Lynes
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Museum in America
Author: Edward Porter Alexander
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780761989479
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A detailed account of the colourful histories of 13 visionary museum innovators, who transformed the 19th-century collections of curios into institutions that inform and instruct.
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780761989479
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A detailed account of the colourful histories of 13 visionary museum innovators, who transformed the 19th-century collections of curios into institutions that inform and instruct.
Why Your Five-year-old Could Not Have Done that
Author: Susie Hodge
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN: 9783791347356
Category : Art criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Come on, you know you've thought it--while viewing a "masterpiece" of abstract art, you mutter, "A kid could do that." Here Susie Hodge, author of How to Survive Modern Art, explains why the best examples of modern art are actually the result of sophisticated thought and serious talent. From Marcel Duchamp's notorious Fountain and the scribbles of Cy Twombly to Mark Rothko's multiforms and Carl Andre's uncarved blocks, Hodge addresses critical outrage with a revealing insight into the technical skill, layering of ideas, and sheer inspiration behind each work. In cleverly organized chapters such as "Objects/ Toys," "Provocations/Tantrums," and "People/Monsters," Hodges thoughtfully and definitively lays bare the perception that modern art is mere child's play.
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN: 9783791347356
Category : Art criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Come on, you know you've thought it--while viewing a "masterpiece" of abstract art, you mutter, "A kid could do that." Here Susie Hodge, author of How to Survive Modern Art, explains why the best examples of modern art are actually the result of sophisticated thought and serious talent. From Marcel Duchamp's notorious Fountain and the scribbles of Cy Twombly to Mark Rothko's multiforms and Carl Andre's uncarved blocks, Hodge addresses critical outrage with a revealing insight into the technical skill, layering of ideas, and sheer inspiration behind each work. In cleverly organized chapters such as "Objects/ Toys," "Provocations/Tantrums," and "People/Monsters," Hodges thoughtfully and definitively lays bare the perception that modern art is mere child's play.
John McAndrew's Modernist Vision
Author: Mardges Bacon
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1616897864
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
John McAndrew's Modernist Vision tells the compelling story of the architect, scholar, and curator John McAndrew, who played a key role in redefining modernism in the United States from the 1930s onward. The designer of the Vassar College Art Library—arguably the first modern interior on a college campus—and the curator of architecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from 1937 to 1941, McAndrew was instrumental in creating a distinct and innovative aesthetic that bridged the European modernist lineage and American regional vernacular. Providing a fascinating glimpse into McAndrew's life, his associations with important architects and artists, and the historical context that shaped his work, this book is a thoroughly researched testament to a man who left a powerful mark on the evolution of American architecture.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1616897864
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
John McAndrew's Modernist Vision tells the compelling story of the architect, scholar, and curator John McAndrew, who played a key role in redefining modernism in the United States from the 1930s onward. The designer of the Vassar College Art Library—arguably the first modern interior on a college campus—and the curator of architecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from 1937 to 1941, McAndrew was instrumental in creating a distinct and innovative aesthetic that bridged the European modernist lineage and American regional vernacular. Providing a fascinating glimpse into McAndrew's life, his associations with important architects and artists, and the historical context that shaped his work, this book is a thoroughly researched testament to a man who left a powerful mark on the evolution of American architecture.
Home Comforts
Author: Cheryl Mendelson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743272862
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
A classic bestselling resource for every household, Home Comforts helps you manage everyday chores, find creative solutions to domestic dilemmas, and enhance the experience of life at home. “Home Comforts is to the house what Joy of Cooking is to food.” —USA TODAY Home Comforts is an engaging and comprehensive book about housekeeping. It is a lively and readable guide for both beginners and experts in all the domestic arts. From keeping surfaces free of germs, watering plants, removing stains, folding a fitted sheet, cleaning china, tuning a piano, lighting a fire, setting the dining room table—this guide covers everything that people might want to do for themselves in their homes. Further topics include: making up a bed with hospital corners, expert recommendations for safe food storage, reading care labels (and sometimes carefully disregarding them), keeping your home free of dust mites and other allergens, this is a practical, good-humored, philosophical guidebook to the art and science of household management.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743272862
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
A classic bestselling resource for every household, Home Comforts helps you manage everyday chores, find creative solutions to domestic dilemmas, and enhance the experience of life at home. “Home Comforts is to the house what Joy of Cooking is to food.” —USA TODAY Home Comforts is an engaging and comprehensive book about housekeeping. It is a lively and readable guide for both beginners and experts in all the domestic arts. From keeping surfaces free of germs, watering plants, removing stains, folding a fitted sheet, cleaning china, tuning a piano, lighting a fire, setting the dining room table—this guide covers everything that people might want to do for themselves in their homes. Further topics include: making up a bed with hospital corners, expert recommendations for safe food storage, reading care labels (and sometimes carefully disregarding them), keeping your home free of dust mites and other allergens, this is a practical, good-humored, philosophical guidebook to the art and science of household management.
A Good Old-Fashioned Future
Author: Bruce Sterling
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0307796809
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
From the subversive to the antic, the uproarious to the disturbing, the stories of Bruce Sterling are restless, energy-filled journeys through a world running on empty--the visionary work of one of our most imaginative and insightful modern writers. They live as strangers in strange lands. In worlds that have fallen--or should have. They wage battles in wars already lost and become heroes--and sometimes martyrs--in their last-ditch efforts to preserve the dignity and individuality of humanity. A hack Indian filmmaker takes the pulse of a wounded and declining civilization--21st-century Britain. A pair of swashbuckling Silicon Valley entrepreneurs join forces to make a commercial killing--in organic underground slime and computer-generated jellyfish. A man in a Japanese city takes orders from a talking cat while pursuing a drama of danger and adventure that has become the very essence of his life. From "The Littlest Jackal", a darkly hilarious thriller of mercs and gunrunners set in Finland, to a stark vision of a post-atomic netherworld in his haunting tale "Taklamakan", Bruce Sterling once again breaks boundaries, breaks icons, and breaks rules to unleash the most dangerously provocative and intelligent science fiction being written today.
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0307796809
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
From the subversive to the antic, the uproarious to the disturbing, the stories of Bruce Sterling are restless, energy-filled journeys through a world running on empty--the visionary work of one of our most imaginative and insightful modern writers. They live as strangers in strange lands. In worlds that have fallen--or should have. They wage battles in wars already lost and become heroes--and sometimes martyrs--in their last-ditch efforts to preserve the dignity and individuality of humanity. A hack Indian filmmaker takes the pulse of a wounded and declining civilization--21st-century Britain. A pair of swashbuckling Silicon Valley entrepreneurs join forces to make a commercial killing--in organic underground slime and computer-generated jellyfish. A man in a Japanese city takes orders from a talking cat while pursuing a drama of danger and adventure that has become the very essence of his life. From "The Littlest Jackal", a darkly hilarious thriller of mercs and gunrunners set in Finland, to a stark vision of a post-atomic netherworld in his haunting tale "Taklamakan", Bruce Sterling once again breaks boundaries, breaks icons, and breaks rules to unleash the most dangerously provocative and intelligent science fiction being written today.
Comfort Found in Good Old Books
Author: George Hamlin Fitch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Promotes reading good books.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Promotes reading good books.
Modern Servitude
Author: Miranda Birch
Publisher: Miranda Birch
ISBN: 1370835485
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
In days of old, naked slaves toiled in the fields for their owners. Times have changed, and slavery is illegal. But where there's a will, there's a way. And so 'Kinky Katie' and friends have no shortage of — ah — “domestic help”! Never underestimate the wiles of the dominant woman!
Publisher: Miranda Birch
ISBN: 1370835485
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
In days of old, naked slaves toiled in the fields for their owners. Times have changed, and slavery is illegal. But where there's a will, there's a way. And so 'Kinky Katie' and friends have no shortage of — ah — “domestic help”! Never underestimate the wiles of the dominant woman!
An Amish Patchwork
Author: Thomas J. Meyers
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253345387
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Offers an overview of the Amish and Mennonite communities in Indiana, describing the traditions, beliefs, and contributions of each community and discussing their impact on the state's history.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253345387
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Offers an overview of the Amish and Mennonite communities in Indiana, describing the traditions, beliefs, and contributions of each community and discussing their impact on the state's history.
The Good Old Boys
Author: Elmer Kelton
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0812575997
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
In 1906, cowboy Hewey Calloway realizes that the West is changing and that he must find a new way of life in a new era.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0812575997
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
In 1906, cowboy Hewey Calloway realizes that the West is changing and that he must find a new way of life in a new era.