Robert Winthrop Chanler

Author : Gina Wouters
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580934579
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robert Winthrop Chanler written by Gina Wouters and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In collaboration with Miami’s Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, a rediscovery of a lost figure of American modernism—the early-twentieth-century American painter born into the Astor family, whose imagination and patrician clientele provide a fascinating artistic and biographical saga. American modernism is populated with a cast of extraordinary characters, but few were as exuberant as Robert Winthrop Chanler, who made his artistic reputation with exotic and brilliantly colored lacquered screens and architectural interiors whose compositions feature fantastical avian, jungle, and aquatic creatures, many overlaid with iridescent metallic finishes. Chanler painted what entertained and interested him, while attracting wealthy Gilded Age patrons and earning popular and critical acclaim at numerous exhibitions—including the 1905 Salon d’Automne, the show featuring paintings by “les fauves,” with Henri Matisse as their leader; and the legendary “International Exhibition of Modern Art” in New York City, popularly known as the 1913 Armory Show. But, despite such a prolific career and a fascinating body of work, Chanler quickly became an obscure figure after his death in 1930. Robert Winthrop Chanler: Discovering the Fantastic is the first comprehensive examination in more than eighty years of an artist who straddled the divide between fine and decorative art, defined notions of originality and authorship during the birth of American modernism, and posthumously challenges twenty-first century preservationists through his idiosyncratic techniques and unorthodox material choices. Co-published with Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, which preserves Chanler’s fantastic undersea mural on the swimming pool grotto ceiling of the historic estate, the book includes essays that explore major commissions and conservation issues, all illustrated with new color photography, as well as a chronology and exhibition history, making this the definitive study on an indelible American modernist.

Author : Oppenheim
Publisher : Tra Publishing
ISBN 13 : 173229786X
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lair: Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains written by Oppenheim and published by Tra Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHY DO BAD GUYS LIVE IN GOOD HOUSES? From Atlantis in The Spy Who Loved Me to Nathan Bateman's ultra-modern abode in Ex Machina, big-screen villains often live in architectural splendor. From a design standpoint, the villain’s lair, as popularized in many of our favorite movies, is a stunning, sophisticated, envy-inducing expression of the warped drives and desires of its occupant. Lair: Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains, celebrates and considers several iconic villains’ lairs from recent film history. From futuristic fantasies to deathtrap-laden hives, from dwellings in space to those under the sea, pop culture and architecture join forces in these outlandish, primarily modern homes and in Lair, which features buildings from fifteen films, including: Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Star Wars The Incredibles Blade Runner 2049 You Only Live Twice The Ghost Writer Body Double North by Northwest Edited by acclaimed architect Chad Oppenheim with Andrea Gollin, Lair includes interviews with production designers and other industry professionals such as Ralph Eggleston, Richard Donner, Roger Christian, David Scheunemann, Gregg Henry, and Mark Digby. Contributors include director Michael Mann, cultural critic Christopher Frayling, museum director Joseph Rosa, and architect Amy Murphy. Architectural illustrations and renderings by Carlos Fueyo provide multiple in-depth views of these spaces.

Author : Robert Winthrop Chanler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Robert Winthrop Chanler Exhibition written by Robert Winthrop Chanler and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tobias Churton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620556316
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aleister Crowley in America written by Tobias Churton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of Crowley’s relationship with the United States • Details Crowley’s travels, passions, literary and artistic endeavors, sex magick, and psychedelic experimentation • Investigates Crowley’s undercover intelligence adventures that actively promoted U.S. involvement in WWI • Includes an abundance of previously unpublished letters and diaries Occultist, magician, poet, painter, and writer Aleister Crowley’s three sojourns in America sealed both his notoriety and his lasting influence. Using previously unpublished diaries and letters, Tobias Churton traces Crowley’s extensive travels through America and his quest to implant a new magical and spiritual consciousness in the United States, while working to undermine Germany’s propaganda campaign to keep the United States out of World War I. Masterfully recreating turn-of-the-century America in all its startling strangeness, Churton explains how Crowley arrived in New York amid dramatic circumstances in 1900. After other travels, in 1914 Crowley returned to the U.S. and stayed for five years: turbulent years that changed him, the world, and the face of occultism forever. Diving deeply into Crowley’s 5-year stay, we meet artists, writers, spies, and government agents as we uncover Crowley’s complex work for British and U.S. intelligence agencies. Exploring Crowley’s involvement with the birth of the Greenwich Village radical art scene, we discover his relations with writers Sinclair Lewis and Theodore Dreiser and artists John Butler Yeats, Leon Engers Kennedy, and Robert Winthrop Chanler while living and lecturing on now-vanished “Genius Row.” We experience his love affairs and share Crowley’s hard times in New Orleans and his return to health, magical dynamism, and the most colorful sex life in America. We examine his controversial political stunts, his role in the sinking of the passenger ship Lusitania, his making of the “Elixir of Life” in 1915, his psychedelic experimentation, his prolific literary achievements, and his run-in with Detroit Freemasonry. We also witness Crowley’s influence on Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and rocket fuel genius Jack Parsons. We learn why J. Edgar Hoover wouldn’t let Crowley back in the country and why the FBI raided Crowley’s organization in LA. Offering a 20th-century history of the occult movement in the United States, Churton shows how Crowley’s U.S. visits laid the groundwork for the establishment of his syncretic “religion” of Thelema and the now flourishing OTO, as well as how Crowley’s final wish was to have his ashes scattered in the Hamptons.

Author : Mark Dion
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734772210
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Bird Blind Debate written by Mark Dion and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been published to accompany the Mark Dion and David Brooks exhibition of the same title.

Author : Eadweard Muybridge
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486129993
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animals in Motion written by Eadweard Muybridge and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 4,000 photographs in series and stopped action of horses, cats, lions, deer, kangaroos, etc. Indispensable for animal artists. Classic of 19th-century photography. "Impressive and valuable collection." — Scientific American.

Author : Boston, Mass. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300063417
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum written by Boston, Mass. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book takes you through the collection gallery by gallery, illuminating the art and installations in each room"--From preface.

Author : Robert Winthrop Chanler
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781293779187
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Robert Winthrop Chanler Exhibition written by Robert Winthrop Chanler and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ The Robert Winthrop Chanler Exhibition: Introduction And Catalogue Robert Winthrop Chanler, Christian Brinton Chanler Studios, 1922 Art; American; General; Art / American / General; Mural painting and decoration, American; Screen painting, American

Author : Robert Winthrop Chanler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781296516499
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Robert Winthrop Chanler Exhibition: Introduction and Catalogue written by Robert Winthrop Chanler and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eve M. Kahn
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819578754
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forever Seeing New Beauties written by Eve M. Kahn and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of New England's own Mary Cassatt Revolutionary artist Mary Rogers Williams (1857—1907), a baker's daughter from Hartford, Connecticut, biked and hiked from the Arctic Circle to Naples, exhibited from Paris to Indianapolis, trained at the Art Students League, chafed against art world rules that favored men, wrote thousands of pages about her travels and work, taught at Smith College for nearly two decades, but sadly ended up almost totally obscure. The book reproduces her unpublished artworks that capture pensive gowned women, Norwegian slopes reflected in icy waters, saw-tooth rooflines on French chateaus, and incense hazes in Italian chapels, and it offers a vivid portrayal of an adventurer, defying her era's expectations.