The Care of Prints and Drawings

The Care of Prints and Drawings

Author: Margaret Holben Ellis

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9780761991366

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Step-by-step instructions and enlightening photos and diagrams thoroughly educate you on parchment and paper care; mattings, hinging and framing; storage; basic conservation procedures; and other relevant topics.


Hatch Show Print

Hatch Show Print

Author: Jim Sherrarden

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2001-03

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780811828567

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"For more than a century, Nashville's Hatch Show Print has produced show-posters for entertainers of all stripes, from country musicians to magicians, professional wrestlers to rock stars. Hatch Show Print: The History of a Great American Poster Shop is the fully illustrated tour of this iconic institution, offering a glimpse into the history of American entertainment through dynamic and distinctive posters from the 1800s to today." "In this day of new media dominance, the hand-carved, hand-set, hand-inked, and hand-cranked ethic and aesthetic of a Hatch Show Print poster is beyond compare. Complete with over 175 illustrations, including historical photographs and scores of beautiful posters, Hatch Show Print is a dazzling document of this legendary print shop." --Book Jacket.


Platinum and Palladium Photographs

Platinum and Palladium Photographs

Author: Constance McCabe

Publisher:

Published: 2017-02-15

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 9780997867909

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The volume presents the results of a four-year inter-institutional, interdisciplinary research initiative led and organized by the National Gallery of Art. Contributions by 47 leading photograph conservators, scientists, and historians provide detailed examinations of the chemical, material, and aesthetic qualities of this important class of rare, beautiful, and technically complex photographs. The volume will help those who care for photograph collections gain a thorough appreciation of the technical and aesthetic characteristics of platinum and palladium prints and scientific basis for their preservation.


Reading American Photographs

Reading American Photographs

Author: Alan Trachtenberg

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1990-11

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780374522490

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Considers five documentary sequences or narratives: the antebellum portraits of Mathew Brady and others; the Civil War albums of Alexander Gardner, George Barnard and A.J. Russell; the Western survey and landscape photographs of Timothy O'Sullivan, A.J. Russell, and Carleton Watkins; and social photographs and texts by Alfred Stieglitz and Lewis Hine; as well as documentaries inspired by the Depression, esp. Walker Evans's American Photographs.


Print the Legend

Print the Legend

Author: Martha A. Sandweiss

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 9780300103151

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Resurrecting scores of rare images of the 19th century American West, "Print the Legend" offers engaging tales of ambitious photographic adventurers, and misinterpreted images. Chronicling both the history of a place and the history of a medium, this book portrays how Americans first came to understand western photos and to envision their expanding nation. 138 illustrations.


American Visions

American Visions

Author: Robert Hughes

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 635

ISBN-13: 9781860463723

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Robert Hughes begins where American art itself began, with the Native Americans and the first Spanish invaders in the Southwest; he ends with the art of today. In between, in a scholarly text that crackles with wit, intelligence and insight, he tells the story of how American art developed. Hughes investigates the changing tastes of the American public; he explores the effects on art of America's landscape of unparalleled variety and richness; he examines the impact of the melting-pot of cultures that America has always been. Most of all he concentrates on the paintings and art objects themselves and on the men and women - from Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins to Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe, from Arthur Dove and George Bellows to Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko -awho created them. This is an uncompromising and refreshingly opinionated exploration of America, told through the lens of its art.


American History Reinvented

American History Reinvented

Author:

Publisher: Steve Parish

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13:

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"Through this droll sequence of photographs Neidich opens up a new area of photographic investigation, using the medium not to certify cultural biases but to challenge them. These powerful photographs force us to challenge them. These powerful photographs force us to recognize how mediated the media really are, how much our perceptions of ourselves and our past are determined by convenient societal assumptions, to acknowledge just how much "story" there is in "history"--Page 4 de la couverture


Everything Was Better in America

Everything Was Better in America

Author: David Welky

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2008-05

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 0252032993

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American mass culture's conservative response to the Great Depression and the coming of World War II