Subject Headings for School and Public Libraries
Subject Headings for School and Public Libraries

Author: Joanna F. Fountain

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781563088537

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Provides headings for topics, literary and organizational forms, and names of individuals, corporate bodies, places, works, and so on, that might be needed to catalog a general collection used at least in part by children and readers or viewers interested in popular topics.

John Sloan's Oil Paintings
John Sloan's Oil Paintings

Author: John Sloan

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0874134390

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Descriptions and histories of the 1,265 oils by John Sloan (1871-1951), more than 1,000 of which are illustrated. Includes critical commentary, the artist's own comments, and an analysis of Sloan's work and his role in American painting. Indexing by title and subject. Illustrated.

Womanist Theological Ethics
Womanist Theological Ethics

Author: Katie Geneva Cannon

Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0664235379

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Writing across theological disciplines, nine African American women scholars reflect on what it means to live as responsible doers of justice. With some classic essays and some contributions published here for the first time, each chapter in this new volume in the Library of Theological Ethics series presents analytical strategies for understanding the story of womanist scholarship in the service of the black community. The Library of Theological Ethics series focuses on what it means to think theologically and ethically. It presents a selection of important and otherwise unavailable texts in easily accessible form. Volumes in this series will enable sustained dialogue with predecessors though reflection on classic works in the field.

John Sloan's New York Scene
John Sloan's New York Scene

Author: John Sloan

Publisher: Ishi Press

Published: 2009-12

Total Pages: 698

ISBN-13: 9780923891633

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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.