Author: David Schiff
Publisher: Lark Books
ISBN: 9781579903428
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Detailed plans and drawings to take you through the process of building one gazebo from start to finish.
Grant Wood
Author: R. Tripp Evans
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307594335
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
He claimed to be “the plainest kind of fellow you can find. There isn’t a single thing I’ve done, or experienced,” said Grant Wood, “that’s been even the least bit exciting.” Wood was one of America’s most famous regionalist painters; to love his work was the equivalent of loving America itself. In his time, he was an “almost mythical figure,” recognized most supremely for his hard-boiled farm scene, American Gothic, a painting that has come to reflect the essence of America’s traditional values—a simple, decent, homespun tribute to our lost agrarian age. In this major new biography of America’s most acclaimed, and misunderstood, regionalist painter, Grant Wood is revealed to have been anything but plain, or simple . . . R. Tripp Evans reveals the true complexity of the man and the image Wood so carefully constructed of himself. Grant Wood called himself a farmer-painter but farming held little interest for him. He appeared to be a self-taught painter with his scenes of farmlands, farm workers, and folklore but he was classically trained, a sophisticated artist who had studied the Old Masters and Flemish art as well as impressionism. He lived a bohemian life and painted in Paris and Munich in the 1920s, fleeing what H. L. Mencken referred to as “the booboisie” of small-town America. We see Wood as an artist haunted and inspired by the images of childhood; by the complex relationship with his father (stern, pious, the “manliest of men”); with his sister and his beloved mother (Wood shared his studio and sleeping quarters with his mother until her death at seventy-seven; he was forty-four). We see Wood’s homosexuality and how his studied masculinity was a ruse that shaped his work. Here is Wood’s life and work explored more deeply and insightfully than ever before. Drawing on letters, the artist’s unfinished autobiography, his sister’s writings, and many never-before-seen documents, Evans’s book is a dimensional portrait of a deeply complicated artist who became a “National Symbol.” It is as well a portrait of the American art scene at a time when America’s Calvinistic spirit and provincialism saw Europe as decadent and artists were divided between red-blooded patriotic men and “hothouse aesthetes.” Thomas Hart Benton said of Grant Wood: “When this new America looks back for landmarks to help gauge its forward footsteps, it will find a monument standing up in the midst of the wreckage . . . This monument will be made out of Grant Wood’s works.”
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307594335
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
He claimed to be “the plainest kind of fellow you can find. There isn’t a single thing I’ve done, or experienced,” said Grant Wood, “that’s been even the least bit exciting.” Wood was one of America’s most famous regionalist painters; to love his work was the equivalent of loving America itself. In his time, he was an “almost mythical figure,” recognized most supremely for his hard-boiled farm scene, American Gothic, a painting that has come to reflect the essence of America’s traditional values—a simple, decent, homespun tribute to our lost agrarian age. In this major new biography of America’s most acclaimed, and misunderstood, regionalist painter, Grant Wood is revealed to have been anything but plain, or simple . . . R. Tripp Evans reveals the true complexity of the man and the image Wood so carefully constructed of himself. Grant Wood called himself a farmer-painter but farming held little interest for him. He appeared to be a self-taught painter with his scenes of farmlands, farm workers, and folklore but he was classically trained, a sophisticated artist who had studied the Old Masters and Flemish art as well as impressionism. He lived a bohemian life and painted in Paris and Munich in the 1920s, fleeing what H. L. Mencken referred to as “the booboisie” of small-town America. We see Wood as an artist haunted and inspired by the images of childhood; by the complex relationship with his father (stern, pious, the “manliest of men”); with his sister and his beloved mother (Wood shared his studio and sleeping quarters with his mother until her death at seventy-seven; he was forty-four). We see Wood’s homosexuality and how his studied masculinity was a ruse that shaped his work. Here is Wood’s life and work explored more deeply and insightfully than ever before. Drawing on letters, the artist’s unfinished autobiography, his sister’s writings, and many never-before-seen documents, Evans’s book is a dimensional portrait of a deeply complicated artist who became a “National Symbol.” It is as well a portrait of the American art scene at a time when America’s Calvinistic spirit and provincialism saw Europe as decadent and artists were divided between red-blooded patriotic men and “hothouse aesthetes.” Thomas Hart Benton said of Grant Wood: “When this new America looks back for landmarks to help gauge its forward footsteps, it will find a monument standing up in the midst of the wreckage . . . This monument will be made out of Grant Wood’s works.”
Building the Perfect Gazebo
Author: David Schiff
Publisher: Lark Books
ISBN: 9781579903428
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Detailed plans and drawings to take you through the process of building one gazebo from start to finish.
Publisher: Lark Books
ISBN: 9781579903428
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Detailed plans and drawings to take you through the process of building one gazebo from start to finish.
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Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's Hole, in the Summer Session of 1895
Author: Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)
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Category : Marine biology
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Category : Marine biology
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's Holl ... 1890-1899
Author: Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)
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Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's Holl [sic]
Author: Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)
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Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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The Definitive Book of Chinese Astrology
Author: Shelly Wu
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN: 1601637551
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This is the only Chinese astrology book you'll ever need! You may be familiar with the Chinese birth-year animals, but did you know you actually have four of them? Each year, each month, each day, and each two-hour period of the day is distinct and denoted by a particular animal sign (branch) and one of the five elements (stems). In The Definitive Book of Chinese Astrology, you will learn how to forecast your love- and life-cycles; understand the indicators of health, wealth, and happiness in your chart; and identify balances and cures. You will also discover Zi Wei Dou Shu, the best-kept astrological secret for millennia and formerly accessible only to royalty. The most accurate and profound divination tool ever discovered—a sort of Dewey decimal system of the universe—this system of astrology will help you identify your inborn capabilities, achievement potential, and life path. Finally, you will learn about the Eastern astrological subspecialties, including the I-Ching, feng shui, 9 Star Ki, and Chinese palmistry. The included interactive CD-Rom makes it easy to create Chinese astrological charts for yourself, your friends, and family members. *The CD contains 1391 KB of information in total so it is not blank. If the customer's operating system is not any of the following (Windows 7, 98se, 2000, XP, or Vista), he or she will not be able to install the program and hence will not be able to view the instructional text.
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN: 1601637551
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This is the only Chinese astrology book you'll ever need! You may be familiar with the Chinese birth-year animals, but did you know you actually have four of them? Each year, each month, each day, and each two-hour period of the day is distinct and denoted by a particular animal sign (branch) and one of the five elements (stems). In The Definitive Book of Chinese Astrology, you will learn how to forecast your love- and life-cycles; understand the indicators of health, wealth, and happiness in your chart; and identify balances and cures. You will also discover Zi Wei Dou Shu, the best-kept astrological secret for millennia and formerly accessible only to royalty. The most accurate and profound divination tool ever discovered—a sort of Dewey decimal system of the universe—this system of astrology will help you identify your inborn capabilities, achievement potential, and life path. Finally, you will learn about the Eastern astrological subspecialties, including the I-Ching, feng shui, 9 Star Ki, and Chinese palmistry. The included interactive CD-Rom makes it easy to create Chinese astrological charts for yourself, your friends, and family members. *The CD contains 1391 KB of information in total so it is not blank. If the customer's operating system is not any of the following (Windows 7, 98se, 2000, XP, or Vista), he or she will not be able to install the program and hence will not be able to view the instructional text.
The Historical Supply Catalogue
Author: Alan Welikoff
Publisher: Camden House Publishing (Ontario, CA)
ISBN: 9780944475447
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A fun-to-browse catalog, abundantly illustrated (bandw), for shoppers seeking newly manufactured items from the past. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Camden House Publishing (Ontario, CA)
ISBN: 9780944475447
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A fun-to-browse catalog, abundantly illustrated (bandw), for shoppers seeking newly manufactured items from the past. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's Hole
Author: Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)
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Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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The Timberman
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Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
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Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
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