Handmade Holiday Cards From Twentieth Century Artists

Author : Mary Savig
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588343871
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handmade Holiday Cards from 20th-Century Artists written by Mary Savig and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handmade Holiday Cards shows how artists imagined the holidays through original watercolors, etchings, silk-screen prints, and drawings. Rarely seen beyond the eyes of their recipients, these cards confirm the irrepressible artistry of their senders. Handmade Holiday Cards offers personal insight into the style and sentiment of artists, including how they summed up the year's events in their own lives and the world in which they lived. The introduction by archives specialist Mary Savig explores the intersections between commercial holiday cards and the art world--how holiday cards were first marketed as "affordable art" and how selling their art to card companies often provided income for artists in lean times. She then opens up the more intimate dimensions of an artist's social network, illuminating their relationships with dealers, curators, teachers, and close friends. Captions introduce each artist, compare or contrast the holiday card to his/her body of work, and discuss the relationship to the recipient when relevant. Handmade Holiday Cards illustrates and contextualizes a broad range of one-of-a-kind artworks or limited edition print series by well-known artists such as Josef Albers, Milton Avery, Alexander Calder, Robert Indiana, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Robert Motherwell, Nickolas Muray, and Ad Reinhardt. It will appeal to anyone interested in greeting cards, ephemeral art, illustrated correspondence, and the history of American art.

Author : Mary Savig
Publisher : Random House New York
ISBN 13 : 1588343308
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handmade Holiday Cards from Twentieth-century Artists written by Mary Savig and published by Random House New York. This book was released on 2012 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the collections of the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art."

Author : Janice Haynes Gilmore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greetings from Delaware and Other Artist Communities written by Janice Haynes Gilmore and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : György Buday
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Christmas Card by George Buday written by György Buday and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6O/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2015 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth L. Ames
Publisher : Bard Graduate Center
ISBN 13 : 9780300176872
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Christmas Cards, 1900-1960 written by Kenneth L. Ames and published by Bard Graduate Center. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, New York, NY, Sept. 27, 2011-Dec. 31, 2011.

Author : New York Public Library
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250297419
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 Christmas Wishes written by New York Public Library and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasure trove of vintage Christmas cards, 100 Christmas Wishes is the perfect holiday treat from the New York Public Library. Every year as the days grow shorter, amidst the holly, cookies, and carols there is another timeless holiday tradition—sending and receiving Christmas cards to and from those you love. 100 Christmas Wishes is a collection of vintage holiday cards, all from the archives of the New York Public Library. The Library houses one of the greatest collections of early Christmas postcards from around the world with thousands of cards depicting every imaginable holiday scene. Archivists selected one hundred of the best cards from the extensive collection to share in 100 Christmas Wishes. From the elegant, gilded Santa Clauses and statuesque angels, to yuletide still lifes, tumbling tots and puppies with bows round their necks, each card is a beautiful celebration of the holiday season. The book also includes six perforated postcards with reproductions of the designs so you too can share a vintage Christmas wish with friends and family on your list. As Rosanne Cash, a patron and friend of the Library as well as a devoted fan of Christmas cards, says in her introduction “This collection of early Christmas postcards, housed for a century in the New York Public Library archives, distills those abiding wishes for the holidays from revelers from long ago and faraway, in a wish for peace, joy, magic, bounty, family, and for light to be shone ‘round the world at Christmas, past and future.’”

Author : Karal Ann Marling
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674022263
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designs on the Heart written by Karal Ann Marling and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book Karal Ann Marling looks at Grandma Moses as a cultural phenomenon of the postwar period and explores the meaning of her subject matter - and her astonishing fame. What did the "Greatest Generation" see in her simple renderings of people, young and old, tapping maple trees for syrup, making apple butter, gliding across snowy fields on sleighs? Why did Bob Hope, Irving Berlin, and Harry Truman all love her - and the art czars' of New York openly despise her? Through the flood of Moses merchandise - splashed across Christmas cards, dishware, yard goods, and gewgaws of every kind - Marling traces the resonances that these "primitive" images struck in an America awkwardly adjusting to a new era of technology, suburbia, and Cold War tensions.".

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Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artists' Christmas Cards written by and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1981 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Isa Leshko
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022639137X
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Allowed to Grow Old written by Isa Leshko and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-05-10 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s nothing quite like a relationship with an aged pet—a dog or cat who has been at our side for years, forming an ineffable bond. Pampered pets, however, are a rarity among animals who have been domesticated. Farm animals, for example, are usually slaughtered before their first birthday. We never stop to think about it, but the typical images we see of cows, chickens, pigs, and the like are of young animals. What would we see if they were allowed to grow old? Isa Leshko shows us, brilliantly, with this collection of portraits. To create these portraits, she spent hours with her subjects, gaining their trust and putting them at ease. The resulting images reveal the unique personality of each animal. It’s impossible to look away from the animals in these images as they unforgettably meet our gaze, simultaneously calm and challenging. In these photographs we see the cumulative effects of the hardships of industrialized farm life, but also the healing that time can bring, and the dignity that can emerge when farm animals are allowed to age on their own terms. Each portrait is accompanied by a brief biographical note about its subject, and the book is rounded out with essays that explore the history of animal photography, the place of beauty in activist art, and much more. Open this book to any page. Meet Teresa, a thirteen-year-old Yorkshire Pig, or Melvin, an eleven-year-old Angora Goat, or Tom, a seven-year-old Broad Breasted White Turkey. You’ll never forget them.