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Languages : en
Pages : 40
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The Life and Times of John Sloan
Author: Helen Farr SloanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258150648
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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The Life and Times of John Sloan
Author: The Life and Times of John Sloan
Author: Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts (Wilmington, Del.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 56
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John Sloan
Author: John SloanPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
Author: John DizikesPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803266414
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
In the 1890s the world of racing was turned on its ear by a young American who rodeøhorses as no professional jockey had ever ridden: Tod Sloan hitched up his stirrups and thrust his weight far forward. Traditionalists laughed at first and dismissed him as a novelty, but as he came to dominate racing on both sides of the Atlantic, his style of riding became widely imitated, and his famous ?forward seat? remains universally practiced to this day. Sloan?s place in racing lore and popular culture was cemented in 1904 when George M. Cohan wrote and starred in Little Johnny Jones, a Broadway musical based on Sloan?s rise and fall in England. John Dizikes?s portrait of Sloan (1874?1933) shows a small-town, hard-luck, midwestern boy who became an overnight sensation and an international celebrity in a world of breeders, bookmakers, gamblers, hustlers, bluebloods, and princes. As the King of Jockeys in the sport of kings, Sloan lived in high style, until he was banned from British racing and forced to eke out a living on the margins of the sport for thirty years.
A Bitter Pill
Author: John SloanPublisher: Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN: 1553654552
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"Medical treatment of elderly people is not working. Worse, it is often harmful. Clear, hard-hitting, and authoritative, A Bitter Pill investigates why the medical system - from its one-size-fits-all prevention strategy to hospital stays that don't benefit anyone - is failing old people who are in fragile health and what we can do about it." --Book Jacket.
John Sloan's Women
Author: Janice Marie CocoPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 0874138663
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
"Challenging the cornerstone assumption of Sloan as a neutral spectator, Coco suggests the ways that he used art to define himself as both man and artist, at a time when the ideals of masculinity and artistic identity were at issue. Examining his self-admitted fear of women, she demonstrates how Sloan's perception of them, as potentially threatening to his manhood and his career, manifests itself subtextually in the fetishized nature of his windowed compositions.".
John Sloan's New York Scene
Author: John SloanPublisher: Ishi Press
ISBN: 9780923891633
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
John French Sloan (August 2, 1871 - September 7, 1951) was a U.S. artist. As a member of The Eight, a group of American artists, he became a leading figure in the Ashcan School of realist artists. He was known for his urban genre painting and ability to capture the essence of neighborhood life in New York City, often through his window. Sloan has been called "the premier artist of the Ashcan School who painted the inexhaustible energy and life of New York City during the first decades of the twentieth century," and an "early twentieth-century realist painter who embraced the principles of socialism and placed his artistic talents at the service of those beliefs.
Oscar Wilde
Author: John SloanPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192840646
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Authors in Context examines the work of major writers in relation to their own time and to the present day. Combining history with lively literary discussion, each volume provides comprehensive insight into texts in their context. Wit, dandy, literary anarchist, self-publicist, and homosexual martyr: Wilde achieved fame and notoriety at a time when mass culture and communication promoted the 'new' in every area of British life - 'New Women', 'New Hedonism', 'New Journalism', 'New Imperialism'. His plays, tales, and critical writings questioned traditional attitudes to religion, sexuality, women and the home, crime and punishment, and the freedom of the individual. This book examines the rich interplay between Wilde's society and his writings and shows the remarkable recontextualizing of Wilde and his work on stage, in film and the media in the century that has followed his death.
John Sloan on Drawing and Painting
Author: John SloanPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486409474
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This illustrated, practical record of talks and instructional advice by a member of the "Ashcan School" of American painting discusses line, tone, texture, light and shade, composition, design, space, perspective, related issues. Also: figure drawing, painting, landscape and mural painting, much more. Wealth of helpful suggestions and exercises.
