Paint in America
Paint in America

Author: Roger W. Moss

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780471144113

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The definitive volume on how paint has been used in the U.S. in the last 250 years. Eminent contributors cover the history of this medium in American buildings from the 17th century to the end of the 19th century. Contains a survey of practices and materials in England, cutting-edge techniques used by today's researchers in examining historic paints, fascinating case studies and an important chart of early American paint colors. Explains how to identify pigments and media, how to prepare surfaces for application and apply paint. Includes the chemical properties of paint with a table of paint components, plus a glossary and bibliography.

A Russian Paints America
A Russian Paints America

Author: Pavel P. Svin'in

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2008-10-17

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0773575065

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Pavel Petrovich Svin'in (1787/88-1839) was a painter, diplomat, and journalist who spent two years as part of the first Russian diplomatic mission to the United States. Soon after returning to Russia, Svin'in published a travel narrative of his experiences.

Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America's National Parks
Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America's National Parks

Author: Richard A. Grusin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-04-22

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780521826495

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Richard Grusin's innovative study investigates how the establishment of national parks participated in the production of American national identity after the Civil War. The creation of America's national parks is usually seen as an uncomplicated act of environmental preservation. Grusin argues, instead, that parks must be understood as complex cultural technologies for the reproduction of nature as landscape art. He explores the origins of America's three major parks - Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Canyon--in relation to other forms of landscape representation including photography, mapping, travel writing and fiction.

The Public Assault on America's Children
The Public Assault on America's Children

Author: Valerie Polakow

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2000-12

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780807739839

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Does our society care about its children? This provocative and in-depth examination of violence in the lives of children uncovers the conditions and social policies that perpetuate violence. In addition, this volume forces us to look at other forms of violence confronting children in families, neighborhoods, and schools: ? The violence of poverty and homelessness ? The violence of environmentally induced childhood diseases ? The media and legislative "criminalization" of children and ? The increasing trend towards incarceration of youthful offenders. The pre-eminent contributors to this volume examine these issues from both historical and contemporary public policy perspectives. They address the myths and realities of youth violence and the impact of poverty, race, and gender. Prevailing ideas about punishment and retribution, the role of the state in terms of private or public responsibility, and the developmental needs of the child are all themes that frame the multiple advocacy perspectives presented by these cogent essays.