The American Frame

Author : Paul Andersen
Publisher : Park Publishing (WI)
ISBN 13 : 9783038601951
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Framing written by Paul Andersen and published by Park Publishing (WI). This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its origins in the Midwest in the early nineteenth century, the technique of light timber framing-also known at the time as "Chicago construction"-quickly came to underwrite the territorial and ideological expansion of the United States. Softwood construction was inherently practical, as its materials were readily available and required little skill to assemble. The result was a built environment that erased typological and class distinctions: no amount of money can buy you a better 2 x 4. This fundamental sameness paradoxically underlies the American culture of individuality, unifying all superficial differences. It has been both a cause and effect of the country's high regard for novelty, in contrast with the stability that is often assumed to be essential to architecture. American Framing is a visual and textual exploration of the social, environmental, and architectural conditions and consequences of this ubiquitous form of construction. For architecture, it offers a story of an American project that is bored with tradition, eager to choose economy over technical skill, and accepting of a relaxed idea of craft in the pursuit of something useful and new-the forming of an architecture that enables architecture.

Author : Tracy Gill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974354804
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Frame written by Tracy Gill and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Editors of American Woodworker
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1607658917
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Make Picture Frames (Best of AW) written by Editors of American Woodworker and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experts at American Woodworker provide plans and instructions for making a variety of well designed, stylish picture frames in this handy manual. The step-by-step guidance ensures that woodworkers will succeed at constructing everything from a rustic picture frame to a craftsman-style frame with a simple set of tools. With workshop tips, plans for jigs that help make frames by the dozens, and a section devoted to solutions for common mistakes, this is an ideal resource for woodworkers looking for new projects or art owners wanting to frame their prized possessions themselves. Author Bio: American Woodworker is the premier magazine for woodworking. Both technical and accessible, the magazine has been in business for decades with more than 140 issues in their backlist. Randy Johnson is an editor of American Woodworker. He lives in Eagan, Minnesota.

Author : David Sehat
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030026562X
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Earthly Frame written by David Sehat and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning scholar’s sweeping history of American secularism, from Jefferson to Trump “An essential book for understanding today’s culture wars. Sehat’s clear-eyed and elegant narrative will change how you think about our supposedly secular age.”—Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill In This Earthly Frame, David Sehat narrates the making of American secularism through its most prominent proponents and most significant detractors. He shows how its foundations were laid in the U.S. Constitution and how it fully emerged only in the twentieth century. Religious and nonreligious Jews, liberal Protestants, apocalyptic sects like the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and antireligious activists all used the courts and the constitutional language of the First Amendment to create the secular order. Then, over the past fifty years, many religious conservatives turned against that order, emphasizing their religious freedom. Avoiding both polemic and lament, Sehat offers a powerful reinterpretation of American secularism and a clear framework for understanding the religiously infused conflict of the present.

Author : Eli Wilner
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811820707
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gilded Edge written by Eli Wilner and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consider the frame as a work of art itself. This in-depth examination of the beauty and diversity of antique American frames is comprised of diverse essays by curators, scholars, artists, and art lovers. The craft of matching frame to work is beautifully illustrated in the 150 images.

Author : M. David Logan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780823030385
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mat, Mount, and Frame it Yourself written by M. David Logan and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now it’s easier than ever to save time and money doing your own framing at home. This one-stop source demonstrates how easy it is to mat, mount, and frame art on paper and cloth, as well as three-dimensional objects. Readers will discover, step by step, how to determine measurements and proportions . . . select colors and accents for matting . . . obtain the necessary materials and equipment . . . cut the materials to size . . . mat, mount, and frame the art (including the cold, hard truth about making your own frames) . . . and glaze, install, and hang framed art. Helpful sidebars and clear illustrations make everything easy. Plus, a final chapter offers suggestions on how to turn this inexpensive and rewarding hobby into a profitable business.

Author : Joe R. Feagin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135127654
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The White Racial Frame written by Joe R. Feagin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Joe Feagin extends the systemic racism framework in previous Routledge books by developing an innovative concept, the white racial frame. Now four centuries-old, this white racial frame encompasses not only the stereotyping, bigotry, and racist ideology emphasized in other theories of "race," but also the visual images, array of emotions, sounds of accented language, interlinking interpretations and narratives, and inclinations to discriminate that are still central to the frame’s everyday operations. Deeply imbedded in American minds and institutions, this white racial frame has for centuries functioned as a broad worldview, one essential to the routine legitimation, scripting, and maintenance of systemic racism in the United States. Here Feagin examines how and why this white racial frame emerged in North America, how and why it has evolved socially over time, which racial groups are framed within it, how it has operated in the past and in the present for both white Americans and Americans of color, and how the latter have long responded with strategies of resistance that include enduring counter-frames. In this new edition, Feagin has included much new interview material and other data from recent research studies on framing issues related to white, black, Latino, and Asian Americans, and on society generally. The book also includes a new discussion of the impact of the white frame on popular culture, including on movies, video games, and television programs as well as a discussion of the white racial frame’s significant impacts on public policymaking, immigration, the environment, health care, and crime and imprisonment issues.

Author : Bertram D. Ashe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136711139
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Within the Frame written by Bertram D. Ashe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the written representation of African-American oral storytelling from Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison to James Alan McPherson, Toni Cade Bambara and John Edgar Wideman. At its core, the book compares the relationship of the "frame tale"-an inside-the-text storyteller telling a tale to an inside-the-text listener-with the relationship between the outside-the-text writer and reader. The progression is from Chesnutt's 1899 frame texts, in which the black spoken voice is contained by a white narrator/listener, to Bambara's sixties-era example of a "frameless" spoken voice text, to Wideman's neo-frame text of the late 20th century.

Author : David Marshall
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801882333
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Frame of Art written by David Marshall and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-11-23 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marshall asks what it means for these authors to view the world through the frame of art.

Author : Banu Karaca
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823290220
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The National Frame written by Banu Karaca and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on long-term ethnographic research in the art worlds of Istanbul and Berlin, The National Frame rethinks the politics of art by focusing on the role of art in state governance. It argues that artistic practices, arts patronage and sponsorship, collecting and curating art, and the modalities of censorship continue to be refracted through the conceptual lens of the nation-state, despite the globalization of the arts. By examining discussions of the civilizing function of art in Turkey and Germany and particularly moments in which art is seen to cede this function, The National Frame reveals the histories of violence on which the production, circulation, and, very understanding of art are predicated. Karaca examines this darker side of art in two cities in which art and its institutions have been intertwined with symbolic and material dispossession. The particularities of German and Turkish contexts, both marked by attempts to claim modern nationhood through the arts; illuminate how art is staked to memory and erasure, resistance and restoration; and why art has been at once vital and unwieldy for national projects. As art continues to be called upon to engage the past and imagine different futures, The National Frame explores how to reclaim art’s emancipatory potential.