Color and Culture
Author: John Gage
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0520222253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn encyclopaedic work on color in Western art and culture from the Middle Ages to Post-Modernism.
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The Anatomy of Color
Author: Patrick Baty
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2017-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0500519331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of paint and color in interior design, spanning a period of three centuries Why were primary colors popular in postwar kitchens? Why did the Art Deco era prefer clean lines and pastel shades? This comprehensive illustrated history of the use of color and paint in interior decoration answers these questions and many more. Drawing on his huge specialist archive, historian and paint expert Patrick Baty traces the evolution of pigments and paint colors together with color systems and standards, and he examines their impact on the color palettes used in interiors from the 1650s to the 1960s. He charts the creation in paint of the common and expensive colors made from traditional earth pigments between 1650 and 1799. He then explores the emergence of color systems and standards and their influence on paint colors together with the effect of industrialized production on the texture and durability of paints. Finally, Baty turns his attention to twentieth-century color standards. Woven throughout the authoritative and revealing text are specially commissioned photographs of pages from rare color reference books. Reproductions of interiors from home decor books, dating from every era, are included throughout, highlighting the distinctive color trends and styles of painting particular to each period.
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Author: Celeste Ray
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014-02-01
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1469616580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTranscending familiar categories of "black" and "white," this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture complicates and enriches our understanding of "southernness" by identifying the array of cultures that combined to shape the South. This exploration of southern ethnicities examines the ways people perform and maintain cultural identities through folklore, religious faith, dress, music, speech, cooking, and transgenerational tradition. Accessibly written and informed by the most recent research that recovers the ethnic diversity of the early South and documents the more recent arrival of new cultural groups, this volume greatly expands upon the modest Ethnic Life section of the original Encyclopedia. Contributors describe 88 ethnic groups that have lived in the South from the Mississippian Period (1000-1600) to the present. They include 34 American Indian groups, as well as the many communities with European, African, and Asian cultural ties that came to the region after 1600. Southerners from all backgrounds are likely to find themselves represented here.
Race, Culture, and Identity
Author: Shireen K. Lewis
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2006-03-10
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 0739159844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this groundbreaking book, Shireen Lewis gives a comprehensive analysis of the literary and theoretical discourse on race, culture, and identity by Francophone and Caribbean writers beginning in the early part of the twentieth century and continuing into the dawn of the new millennium. Examining the works of Patrick Chamoiseau, Rapha`l Confiant, AimZ CZsaire, LZopold Senghor, LZon Damas, and Paulette Nardal, Lewis traces a move away from the preoccupation with African origins and racial and cultural purity, toward concerns of hybridity and fragmentation in the New World or Diasporic space. In addition to exploring how this shift parallels the larger debate around modernism and postmodernism, Lewis makes a significant contribution by arguing for the inclusion of Martinican intellectual Paulette Nardal, and other women into the canon as significant contributors to the birth of modern black Francophone literature.
Color Struck
Author: Julius O. Adekunle
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2010-02-24
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 0761850929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKColor Struck: Essays of Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective is a compilation of expositions on race and ethnicity, written from multiple disciplinary approaches including history, sociology, women's studies, and anthropology. This book is organized around a topical, chronological framework and is divided into three sections, beginning with the earliest times to the contemporary world. The term 'race' has nearly become synonymous with the word 'ethnicity,' given the most recent findings in the study of human genetics that have led to the mapping of human DNA. Color Struck attempts to answer questions and provide scholarly insight into issues related to race and ethnicity.
Cultures en couleurs
Author: Valeria Heuberger
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contributions to this book are dedicated to the heritage of the Ottoman Empire and the Austro- Hungarian Monarchy in the Orient and Occident. The book presents current research concerning the historical, political and cultural impact of this legacy and gives an overview of comparative approaches to Balkan and Ottoman studies.
Southscapes
Author: Thadious M. Davis
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 0807835218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this innovative approach to southern literary cultures, Thadious Davis analyzes how black southern writers use their spatial location to articulate the vexed connections between society and environment, particularly under segregation and its legacies.<
Keats, Narrative and Audience
Author: Andrew Bennett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-03-24
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780521445658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAndrew Bennett's original study of Keats focuses on questions of narrative and audience as a means to offer new readings of the major poems. It discusses ways in which reading is 'figured' in Keats's poetry, and suggests that such 'figures of reading' have themselves determined certain modes of response to Keats's texts. Together with important new readings of Keats's poetry, the study presents a significant rethinking of the relationship between Romantic poetry and its audience. Developing recent discussions in literary theory concerning narrative, readers and reading, the nature of the audience for poetry, and the Romantic 'invention' of posterity, Bennett elaborates a sophisticated and historically specific reconceptualization of Romantic writing.
An American Color
Author: Andrew N. Wegmann
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2022-01-15
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 0820368849
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