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Author: Donald Braider
Publisher: Meredith Corporation
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 196
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrief biographies of five early American painters including Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, and John Trumbull.
Author: Lance Mayer
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1606061356
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"How paintings were made--in the most literal sense--is an important but largely unknown aspect of the story of American art. This book, like the authors' previous volume on American painting techniques from the colonial period to 1860, is based on descriptions of the materials and methods that painters used, as found in artists' notebooks, painting manuals, magazines, suppliers' catalogues, letters, diaries, books, and interviews. In interpreting this evidence, the authors have made use of their experience as conservators who have treated many important American paintings."--Book jacket.
Author: Carolyn J. Weekley
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780300190762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis beautifully illustrated volume presents the complex ways in which the lives of artists, clients, and sitters were interconnected in the early American South. During this period, paintings included not only portraits, but also seascapes, landscapes, and pictures made by explorers and naturalists. The first comprehensive study of this subject, Painters and Paintings in the Early American South draws upon materials including diaries, correspondence, and newspapers in order to explore the stylistic trends of the period and the lives of the sitters, as gentility spread from the wealthiest southerners to the middle class. Featuring works by John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, and Benjamin West, among many others, this important book examines the training and status of painters, the distinction between fine art and the mechanical arts, the popularity of portraiture, and the nature of clientele between 1540 and 1790, providing a new, critical understanding of the history of art in the American South. Published in association with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Exhibition Schedule: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation(03/23/13-09/07/14)
Author: Eric Sloane
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780486425603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbsorbing book describes, in detail, farm tools and kitchen implements and how they were made. Includes devices used by curriers, wheelwrights, coopers, blacksmiths, loggers, tanners, coachmakers, and other craftsmen of the pre-industrial age. An informal, expressively written book for cultural historians, woodcrafters, and Americana enthusiasts. 184 black-and-white illustrations.
Author: Paul Staiti
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2016-10-18
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 1632864673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA vibrant and original perspective on the American Revolution through the stories of the five great artists whose paintings animated the new American republic. The images accompanying the founding of the United States--of honored Founders, dramatic battle scenes, and seminal moments--gave visual shape to Revolutionary events and symbolized an entirely new concept of leadership and government. Since then they have endured as indispensable icons, serving as historical documents and timeless reminders of the nation's unprecedented beginnings. As Paul Staiti reveals in Of Arms and Artists, the lives of the five great American artists of the Revolutionary period--Charles Willson Peale, John Singleton Copley, John Trumbull, Benjamin West, and Gilbert Stuart--were every bit as eventful as those of the Founders with whom they continually interacted, and their works contributed mightily to America's founding spirit. Living in a time of breathtaking change, each in his own way came to grips with the history they were living through by turning to brushes and canvases, the results often eliciting awe and praise, and sometimes scorn. Their imagery has connected Americans to 1776, allowing us to interpret and reinterpret the nation's beginning generation after generation. The collective stories of these five artists open a fresh window on the Revolutionary era, making more human the figures we have long honored as our Founders, and deepening our understanding of the whirlwind out of which the United States emerged.
Author: John Hill Morgan
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 156
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Valeriy Kogan
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2012-03-30
Total Pages: 45
ISBN-13: 1105633756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the fifth album of the Series: "Painters: A New Vision" which are written in both English and Russian... modest attempts are undertaken, having looked in a new fashion (' A New Vision ') to comprehend through own sensations and to state a poetic assessment of activity of protruding Early American artists ('Summary in Verses'). The Author gave his understanding ('A new vision') of the paintings in these verses.
Author: Sidney Janis
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2014-06-11
Total Pages: 2782
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelatively little attention has been paid to American military history between 1783 and 1812—arguably the most formative years of the United States. This encyclopedia fills the void in existing literature and provides greater understanding of how the nation evolved during this era. This encyclopedia offers a comprehensive examination of U.S. military history from the beginning of the republic in 1783 up to the eve of war with Great Britain in 1812. It enables a detailed study of the Early Republic, during which ideological and political divisions occurred over the fledgling U.S. military. The entries cover all the important battles, key individuals, weapons, Indian nations, and treaties, as well as numerous social, political, cultural, and economic developments during this period. The contents of the work will enable readers at the high school, college, university, and even graduate level to comprehend how political parties emerged, and how ideological differences over the organization, size, and use of the military developed. Larger global developments, including Anglo-American and Franco-American interactions, relations between Middle Eastern states and the United States, and relations and warfare between the U.S. government and various Indian nations are also detailed. The extensive and detailed bibliographies will be immensely helpful to learners at all levels.
