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Author: Edwards Park
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780517119556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeatures the masterpieces of art, history, invention, and nature selected from the Smithsonian exhibition.
Author: National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 114
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume features artists who brought a new sophistication and elegancento American art in the three decades before World War I. Wealthyndustrialists eager to acquire culture began to patronize native artists whoad achieved international recognition. John Singer Sargent, Irving Wiles andecilia Beaux created portraits of these new patrons, while John La Farge andugustus Saint-Gaudens made luxurious adornments for their homes. One groupf painters - including Louis Comfort Tiffany, Frederick Arthur Bridgman,enry Ossawa Tanner and Charles Sprague Pearce - responded especially to theascnation with exotic Middle Eastern, Egyptian or "Oriental" cultures thatharacterized this age of international imperialism. The educated and refinedspects of Gilded Age culture are expressed here in Renaissance-inspiredaintings by Abbott Thayer and Mary Cassatt. Romantic literary works byisionary Albert Pinkham Ryder symbolize the idealized strivings of thiseneration, while the rugged masculine landscapes of Winslow Homer emblemizehe struggle and conflict that marked this period of contending social and
Author: National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780789201058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Smithsonian Institution's new National Museum of the American Indian is dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native Americans. Spanning more than ten thousand years, the one million objects in the museum's collections represent the extraordinary scope of Indian life in the Americas. From ancient stone points to contemporary Indian paintings, these objects make vividly clear the diversity and vigorous creativity of Native cultures from the Arctic to the southern tip of South America.
Author: Smithsonian Institution
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Published: 2013-10-29
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 1588343901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSmithsonian Civil War is a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book featuring 150 entries in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. From among tens of thousands of Civil War objects in the Smithsonian's collections, curators handpicked 550 items and wrote a unique narrative that begins before the war through the Reconstruction period. The perfect gift book for fathers and history lovers, Smithsonian Civil War combines one-of-a-kind, famous, and previously unseen relics from the war in a truly unique narrative. Smithsonian Civil War takes the reader inside the great collection of Americana housed at twelve national museums and archives and brings historical gems to light. From the National Portrait Gallery come rare early photographs of Stonewall Jackson and Ulysses S. Grant; from the National Museum of American History, secret messages that remained hidden inside Lincoln's gold watch for nearly 150 years; from the National Air and Space Museum, futuristic Civil War-era aircraft designs. Thousands of items were evaluated before those of greatest value and significance were selected for inclusion here. Artfully arranged in 150 entries, they offer a unique, panoramic view of the Civil War.
Author: Jonathan Yorba
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 124
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom portraits of family friends and famous individuals to the aesthetics of religious traditions from Puerto Rico to the American Southwest, "Arte Latino" is a lavishly illustrated Smithsonian American Art Museum guide that celebrates Latin art, innovation and tradition. 52 color illustrations.
Author: Regina Krahl
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Published: 2011-03-08
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1588343057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart adventure story, part maritime archaeological expedition, part historical look into ninth-century Chinese economy, culture, and trade, Shipwrecked is a fascinating journey back in time. Twelve centuries ago, a merchant ship—an Arab dhow—foundered on a reef just off the coast of Belitung, a small island in the Java Sea. The cargo was a remarkable assemblage of lead ingots, bronze mirrors, spice-filled jars, intricately worked vessels of silver and gold, and more than 60,000 glazed bowls, ewers, and other ceramics. The ship remained buried at sea for more than a millennium, its contents protected from erosion by their packing and the conditions of the silty sea floor. Shipwrecked explores this precious cargo and the story of the men who sailed it, with more than 250 gorgeous photographs and essays by international experts in Arab ship-building methods, pan-Asian maritime trade, ceramics, precious metalwork, and more.
Author: Massumeh Farhad
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1588345785
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished on the occasion of the exhibition The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul, held at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C., October 15, 2016-February 20, 2017.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-03-02
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 0486112519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJefferson regarded Jesus as a moral guide rather than a divinity. In his unique interpretation of the Bible, he highlights Christ's ethical teachings, discarding the scriptures' supernatural elements, to reflect the deist view of religion.
Author: Theresa J. Slowik
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2006-04-01
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780810955325
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCelebrating the reopening of the newly restored Smithsonian American Art Museum, a premier collection of American art features more than 250 reproductions of great works of American painting, sculpture, folk art, and photography, by such artists as Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Nam June Paik, and other luminaries.
Author: Molly Oldfield
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780007455287
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'The Secret Museum' is a treasure trove of the most intriguing artifacts hidden away in museum archives from all over the world - curated, brought to light, and brought to life by Molly Oldfield in an illustrated collection.
