Author: Dale Peterson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820323039
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Having crossed the continent with his two children, visiting more than sixty towns in the process, the author shares his cross-country travel adventures in a unique chronicle of small-town America, its down-home citizenry, and its quirky history. Reprint.
Storyville, USA
Author: Dale Peterson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820323039
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Having crossed the continent with his two children, visiting more than sixty towns in the process, the author shares his cross-country travel adventures in a unique chronicle of small-town America, its down-home citizenry, and its quirky history. Reprint.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820323039
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Having crossed the continent with his two children, visiting more than sixty towns in the process, the author shares his cross-country travel adventures in a unique chronicle of small-town America, its down-home citizenry, and its quirky history. Reprint.
Disturbing Remains
Author: Michael S. Roth
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892365388
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
In Disturbing Remains, ten extraordinary scholars focus on the remembrance and representation of traumatic historical events in the twentieth century. The volume opens with essays by David William Cohen, Veena Das, and Philip Gourevitch. Their reflections on the narratives framing Robert Ouko's death in Kenya, Sikh-Hindu violence in India around the time of Indira Gandhi's assassination, and the 1994 genocide of Tutsis by Hutus in Rwanda offer fresh insights into the genesis and aftermath of these tragedies. The next four essays explore the expression of societal disaster in works of art and ritual. Lenin's image, Pablo Picasso's Guernica, balsa figurines of whites made by the Kuna of Panama, and Chinese fertility statuettes after Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward are the subjects taken up by Leah Dickerman, Carlo Ginzburg, Carlo Severi, and Jun Jing. Disturbing Remains closes with three essays about the influence of the dead on the construction of shared identity. István Rév looks at how Hungarians have dealt with the 1956 revolution and its executed leader, and Jörn Rüsen and Saul Friedländer contemplate the public memory of the Holocaust in Germany and worldwide.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892365388
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
In Disturbing Remains, ten extraordinary scholars focus on the remembrance and representation of traumatic historical events in the twentieth century. The volume opens with essays by David William Cohen, Veena Das, and Philip Gourevitch. Their reflections on the narratives framing Robert Ouko's death in Kenya, Sikh-Hindu violence in India around the time of Indira Gandhi's assassination, and the 1994 genocide of Tutsis by Hutus in Rwanda offer fresh insights into the genesis and aftermath of these tragedies. The next four essays explore the expression of societal disaster in works of art and ritual. Lenin's image, Pablo Picasso's Guernica, balsa figurines of whites made by the Kuna of Panama, and Chinese fertility statuettes after Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward are the subjects taken up by Leah Dickerman, Carlo Ginzburg, Carlo Severi, and Jun Jing. Disturbing Remains closes with three essays about the influence of the dead on the construction of shared identity. István Rév looks at how Hungarians have dealt with the 1956 revolution and its executed leader, and Jörn Rüsen and Saul Friedländer contemplate the public memory of the Holocaust in Germany and worldwide.
History of Guardian Angel Parish, Oran, Missouri, 1893-1993
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oran (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oran (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Beadland to Barrow
Author: Culpepper Fred Ingram
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Author: Joyce Tsai
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520290674
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
"Laszlo Moholy-Nagy is the first monograph on Moholy to attend to the fraught but central role painting played in shaping his aesthetic project. His reputation has been that of an artist far more interested in exploring the possibilities offered by photography, film, and other new media than in working with what he once called the 'anachronistic' medium of painting. And yet, with the exception of the period between 1928 and 1930, Moholy painted throughout his career. Joyce Tsai argues that his investment in painting, especially after 1930, emerged not only out of pragmatic and aesthetic considerations, but also out of a growing recognition of the economic, political, and ethical compromises required by his large-scale, technologically mediated projects aimed at reforming human vision. Without abandoning his commitment to fostering what he called New Vision, Moholy came to understand painting as a particularly plastic field in which the progressive possibilities of photography, film and other emergent media could find provisional expression."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520290674
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
"Laszlo Moholy-Nagy is the first monograph on Moholy to attend to the fraught but central role painting played in shaping his aesthetic project. His reputation has been that of an artist far more interested in exploring the possibilities offered by photography, film, and other new media than in working with what he once called the 'anachronistic' medium of painting. And yet, with the exception of the period between 1928 and 1930, Moholy painted throughout his career. Joyce Tsai argues that his investment in painting, especially after 1930, emerged not only out of pragmatic and aesthetic considerations, but also out of a growing recognition of the economic, political, and ethical compromises required by his large-scale, technologically mediated projects aimed at reforming human vision. Without abandoning his commitment to fostering what he called New Vision, Moholy came to understand painting as a particularly plastic field in which the progressive possibilities of photography, film and other emergent media could find provisional expression."--Provided by publisher.
Comprehensive Index to the Publications of the United States Government, 1881-1893
Author: United States. Department of the Interior. Division of Documents
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Algonquin
Author: James Savage
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9780920474709
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
A poem celebrating Algonquin Provincial Park on the occasion of its centennial, with outstanding historic illustrations.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9780920474709
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
A poem celebrating Algonquin Provincial Park on the occasion of its centennial, with outstanding historic illustrations.
John C. Calhoun
Author: Margaret L. Coit
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780872497757
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
'. . .provides far & away the most detailed, vivid, & convincing personal characterization of Calhoun we have.'--Nation.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780872497757
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
'. . .provides far & away the most detailed, vivid, & convincing personal characterization of Calhoun we have.'--Nation.
Alumni Record of Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, New Jersey, 1867-1925
Author: Drew Theological Seminary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Colorado Women
Author: Gail M. Beaton
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1457173824
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Colorado Women is the first full-length chronicle of the lives, roles, and contributions of women in Colorado from prehistory through the modern day. A national leader in women's rights, Colorado was one of the first states to approve suffrage and the first to elect a woman to its legislature. Nevertheless, only a small fraction of the literature on Colorado history is devoted to women and, of those, most focus on well-known individuals. The experiences of Colorado women differed greatly across economic, ethnic, and racial backgrounds. Marital status, religious affiliation, and sexual orientation colored their worlds and others' perceptions and expectations of them. Each chapter addresses the everyday lives of women in a certain period, placing them in historical context, and is followed by vignettes on women's organizations and notable individuals of the time. Native American, Hispanic, African American, Asian and Anglo women's stories hail from across the state--from the Eastern Plains to the Front Range to the Western Slope--and in their telling a more complete history of Colorado emerges. Colorado Women makes a significant contribution to the discussion of women's presence in Colorado that will be of interest to historians, students, and the general reader interested in Colorado, women's and western history.
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1457173824
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Colorado Women is the first full-length chronicle of the lives, roles, and contributions of women in Colorado from prehistory through the modern day. A national leader in women's rights, Colorado was one of the first states to approve suffrage and the first to elect a woman to its legislature. Nevertheless, only a small fraction of the literature on Colorado history is devoted to women and, of those, most focus on well-known individuals. The experiences of Colorado women differed greatly across economic, ethnic, and racial backgrounds. Marital status, religious affiliation, and sexual orientation colored their worlds and others' perceptions and expectations of them. Each chapter addresses the everyday lives of women in a certain period, placing them in historical context, and is followed by vignettes on women's organizations and notable individuals of the time. Native American, Hispanic, African American, Asian and Anglo women's stories hail from across the state--from the Eastern Plains to the Front Range to the Western Slope--and in their telling a more complete history of Colorado emerges. Colorado Women makes a significant contribution to the discussion of women's presence in Colorado that will be of interest to historians, students, and the general reader interested in Colorado, women's and western history.