Revisiting America The Prints Of Currier And Ives

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Publisher : Joslyn Art Museum
ISBN 13 : 9781646570102
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Revisiting America: The Prints of Currier and Ives written by and published by Joslyn Art Museum. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Engravings for the people" a fresh appraisal of the printmakers Currier & Ives and their vision of America Currier & Ives was a powerhouse of 19th-century publishing and had an immeasurable influence on American visual culture. Founded in New York in 1834 by Nathaniel Currier, the company expanded to include a new partner, James Merritt Ives, after 1857. Currier & Ives produced millions of affordably priced copies of over 7,000 original lithographs, living up to its self-appointed title as "The Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints." The firm took advantage of New York City's booming arts culture in the latter half of the 19th century, but its output was not seen as fine art by critics, nor was it intended as such. Its prints were first and foremost commodities; the choice subjects often determined by popularity and sales figures. Currier & Ives perpetuated Victorian ideals in its depictions of family, history, politics and urban and suburban life. But these prints also served as an important record of a nation in the midst of an extraordinary transformation from a rural and agricultural landscape to an industrialized and urbanized global power. Along with their popular appeal, Currier & Ives's images offer a new opportunity to uncover the complexities and contradictions of our history and help shape our understanding of America's past.

Author : Currier & Ives
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Total Pages : 48 pages
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Author : Marilyn Nelson
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
ISBN 13 : 9781932425574
Total Pages : 82 pages
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Download or read book The Freedom Business written by Marilyn Nelson and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems by Marilyn Nelson, accompanied by prose by African slave Venture Smith and watercolor painting by Deborah Dancy.

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Download or read book The Great Book of Currier & Ives' America written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walton H. Rawls
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 487 pages
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Download or read book The Great Book of Currier & Ives' America written by Walton H. Rawls and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James W. Baker
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1584658746
Total Pages : 290 pages
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Download or read book Thanksgiving written by James W. Baker and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origins and ever-changing story of America's favorite holiday

Author : Nicholas Thoburn
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452951993
Total Pages : 379 pages
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Download or read book Anti-Book written by Nicholas Thoburn and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No, Anti-Book is not a book about books. Not exactly. And yet it is a must for anyone interested in the future of the book. Presenting what he terms “a communism of textual matter,” Nicholas Thoburn explores the encounter between political thought and experimental writing and publishing, shifting the politics of text from an exclusive concern with content and meaning to the media forms and social relations by which text is produced and consumed. Taking a “post-digital” approach in considering a wide array of textual media forms, Thoburn invites us to challenge the commodity form of books—to stop imagining books as transcendent intellectual, moral, and aesthetic goods unsullied by commerce. His critique is, instead, one immersed in the many materialities of text. Anti-Book engages with an array of writing and publishing projects, including Antonin Artaud’s paper gris-gris, Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto, Guy Debord’s sandpaper-bound Mémoires, the collective novelist Wu Ming, and the digital/print hybrid of Mute magazine. Empirically grounded, it is also a major achievement in expressing a political philosophy of writing and publishing, where the materiality of text is interlaced with conceptual production. Each chapter investigates a different form of textual media in concert with a particular concept: the small-press pamphlet as “communist object,” the magazine as “diagrammatic publishing,” political books in the modes of “root” and “rhizome,” the “multiple single” of anonymous authorship, and myth as “unidentified narrative object.” An absorbingly written contribution to contemporary media theory in all its manifestations, Anti-Book will enrich current debates about radical publishing, artists’ books and other new genre and media forms in alternative media, art publishing, media studies, cultural studies, critical theory, and social and political theory.

Author : Amanda Cathryne Burdan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
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Author : Jack Becker
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ISBN 13 : 9781880897195
Total Pages : 64 pages
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Download or read book Henry Ward Ranger and the Humanized Landscape written by Jack Becker and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 17 Color Reproductions and 19 Half Tones, 64 pages. One Essay discusses the artist's life and work. One essay discusses the artist's relationship to the American Tonalist Movement and the third essay discusses Ranger's painting technique.

Author : Susan Cheever
Publisher : Twelve
ISBN 13 : 1455513865
Total Pages : 240 pages
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Download or read book Drinking in America written by Susan Cheever and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In DRINKING IN AMERICA, bestselling author Susan Cheever chronicles our national love affair with liquor, taking a long, thoughtful look at the way alcohol has changed our nation's history. This is the often-overlooked story of how alcohol has shaped American events and the American character from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Seen through the lens of alcoholism, American history takes on a vibrancy and a tragedy missing from many earlier accounts. From the drunkenness of the Pilgrims to Prohibition hijinks, drinking has always been a cherished American custom: a way to celebrate and a way to grieve and a way to take the edge off. At many pivotal points in our history-the illegal Mayflower landing at Cape Cod, the enslavement of African Americans, the McCarthy witch hunts, and the Kennedy assassination, to name only a few-alcohol has acted as a catalyst. Some nations drink more than we do, some drink less, but no other nation has been the drunkest in the world as America was in the 1830s only to outlaw drinking entirely a hundred years later. Both a lively history and an unflinching cultural investigation, DRINKING IN AMERICA unveils the volatile ambivalence within one nation's tumultuous affair with alcohol.