Author: Society of American Fakirs
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Category : Art, American
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Author: Society of American Fakirs
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Category : Art, American
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: Raymond J. Steiner
Publisher: C S S Publications, Incorporated
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Traces the history since 1875 of an institution that has played an enormous role in the cultivation of American artists and art. The author, a founder and editor/art critic for "Art Times," provides a history enriched with anecdotes that portray the flavor of this unusual school as well as information about the school's social and cultural context over time. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

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Languages : en
Pages : 1018

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Author: Amy Werbel
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023154703X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 589

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Anthony Comstock was America’s first professional censor. From 1873 to 1915, as Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, Comstock led a crusade against lasciviousness, salaciousness, and obscenity that resulted in the confiscation and incineration of more than three million pictures, postcards, and books he judged to be obscene. But as Amy Werbel shows in this rich cultural and social history, Comstock’s campaign to rid America of vice in fact led to greater acceptance of the materials he deemed objectionable, offering a revealing tale about the unintended consequences of censorship. In Lust on Trial, Werbel presents a colorful journey through Comstock’s career that doubles as a new history of post–Civil War America’s risqué visual and sexual culture. Born into a puritanical New England community, Anthony Comstock moved to New York in 1868 armed with his Christian faith and a burning desire to rid the city of vice. Werbel describes how Comstock’s raids shaped New York City and American culture through his obsession with the prevention of lust by means of censorship, and how his restrictions provided an impetus for the increased circulation and explicitness of “obscene” materials. By opposing women who preached sexual liberation and empowerment, suppressing contraceptives, and restricting artistic expression, Comstock drew the ire of civil liberties advocates, inspiring more open attitudes toward sexual and creative freedom and more sophisticated legal defenses. Drawing on material culture high and low, including numerous examples of the “obscenities” Comstock seized, Lust on Trial provides fresh insights into Comstock’s actions and motivations, the sexual habits of Americans during his era, and the complicated relationship between law and cultural change.

Author: Richard H. Love
Publisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 9781580460248
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 960

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Throughout his life Peters depicted the ordinary places and people of America. From Rochester to Rockport, Peters made an amazingly coherent group of fascinating, masterful American pictures.

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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 836

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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 674

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The biographical material formerly included in the directory is issued separately as Who's who in American art, 1936/37-

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Category : Popular culture
Languages : en
Pages : 1000

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Author: Frank Weitenkampf
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Category : Engraving
Languages : en
Pages : 454

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