The Great American Hall Of Wonders

Author : Claire Perry
Publisher : Giles
ISBN 13 : 9781904832973
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great American Hall of Wonders written by Claire Perry and published by Giles. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report features specific examples where the Battelle name and logo were seen throughout the duration of the show and includes metrics for credit line impressions"--Executive summary

Author : Claire Perry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979067891
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great American Hall of Wonders written by Claire Perry and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Great American Hall of Wonders, on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., from July 15, 2011 through January 8, 2012."

Author : Alisa Solomon
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0805095292
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wonder of Wonders written by Alisa Solomon and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sparkling and eye-opening history of the Broadway musical that changed the world In the half-century since its premiere, Fiddler on the Roof has had an astonishing global impact. Beloved by audiences the world over, performed from rural high schools to grand state theaters, Fiddler is a supremely potent cultural landmark. In a history as captivating as its subject, award-winning drama critic Alisa Solomon traces how and why the story of Tevye the milkman, the creation of the great Yiddish writer Sholem-Aleichem, was reborn as blockbuster entertainment and a cultural touchstone, not only for Jews and not only in America. It is a story of the theater, following Tevye from his humble appearance on the New York Yiddish stage, through his adoption by leftist dramatists as a symbol of oppression, to his Broadway debut in one of the last big book musicals, and his ultimate destination—a major Hollywood picture. Solomon reveals how the show spoke to the deepest conflicts and desires of its time: the fraying of tradition, generational tension, the loss of roots. Audiences everywhere found in Fiddler immediate resonance and a usable past, whether in Warsaw, where it unlocked the taboo subject of Jewish history, or in Tokyo, where the producer asked how Americans could understand a story that is "so Japanese." Rich, entertaining, and original, Wonder of Wonders reveals the surprising and enduring legacy of a show about tradition that itself became a tradition. Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles.

Author : David D. Hall
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674962163
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment written by David D. Hall and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at 17th-century New England religion as it was practiced by the vast majority of the population, not by the clergy. This work offers insight into Puritan rituals, attitudes toward the natural word, and the creative tension between Puritan laity and clergy.

Author : Cotton Mather
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wonders of the Invisible World written by Cotton Mather and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Catlin
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian American Art Museum ; New York : W.W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393052176
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Catlin and His Indian Gallery written by George Catlin and published by Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian American Art Museum ; New York : W.W. Norton. This book was released on 2002 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcases the work of the early-nineteenth-century artist who made four trips into Native American country as part of an ambition to paint each tribe, noting the influence of period belief systems on his work as well as his passionate affection for his subjects.

Author : Randy Johnson
Publisher : Last Gasp
ISBN 13 : 9780867196221
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freaks, Geeks, and Strange Girls written by Randy Johnson and published by Last Gasp. This book was released on 2004 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a colourful history of the carnival sideshow and its distinctive banner art. With one hundred colour photographs, the book lovingly surveys this now vanished icon of early rural America, counterpointing classic freak show art with contemporary interpretations. Fifty archival black-and-white photos of sideshows provide a historical context for the banner illustrations.

Author : Alex Beam
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458758575
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Great Idea at the Time written by Alex Beam and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today the classics of the western canon, written by the proverbial ''dead white men,'' are cannon fodder in the culture wars. But in the 1950s and 1960s, they were a pop culture phenomenon. The Great Books of Western Civilization, fifty-four volumes chosen by intellectuals at the University of Chicago, began as an educational movement, and evolved into a successful marketing idea. Why did a million American households buy books by Hippocrates and Nicomachus from door-to-door salesmen? And how and why did the great books fall out of fashion? In A Great Idea at the Time Alex Beam explores the Great Books mania, in an entertaining and strangely poignant portrait of American popular culture on the threshold of the television age. Populated with memorable characters, A Great Idea at the Time will leave readers asking themselves: Have I read Lucretius's De Rerum Natura lately? If not, why not?

Author : Michael Farquhar
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780142001929
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Treasury of Great American Scandals written by Michael Farquhar and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on the heels of his national bestseller A Treasury of Royal Scandals, Michael Farquhar turns his attention to matters a little closer to home with A Treasury of Great American Scandals. From the unhappy family relationships of prominent Americans to the feuds, smear campaigns, duels, and infamous sex scandals that have punctuated our history, we see our founding fathers and other American heroes in the course of their all-too-human events. Ineffectual presidents, lazy generals, traitors; treacherous fathers, nagging mothers, ungrateful children, embarrassing siblings; and stories about insanity, death, and disturbing postmortems are all here, as are disagreeable marriages, vile habits, and, of course, sex: good sex, bad sex, and good-bad sex too. We can take comfort in the fact that we are no worse and no better than our forebears. But we do have better media coverage. Bonus educational material: A brief history of the United States, including scandals! The American Hall of Shame! A complete listing of presidential administrations!

Author : Wendy Jean Katz
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823298582
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A True American written by Wendy Jean Katz and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that nativism, the hostility especially to Catholic immigrants that led to the organization of political parties like the Know-Nothings, affected the meaning of nineteenthcentury American art in ways that have gone unrecognized. In an era of industrialization, nativism’s erection of barriers to immigration appealed to artisans, a category that included most male artists at some stage in their careers. But as importantly, its patriotic message about the nature of the American republic also overlapped with widely shared convictions about the necessity of democratic reform. Movements directed toward improving the human condition, including anti-slavery and temperance, often consigned Catholicism, along with monarchies and slavery, to a repressive past, not the republican American future. To demonstrate the impact of this political effort by humanitarian reformers and nativists to define a Protestant character for the country, this book tracks the work and practice of artist William Walcutt. Though he is little known today, in his own time his efforts as a painter, illustrator and sculptor were acclaimed as masterly, and his art is worth reconsidering in its own right. But this book examines him as a case study of an artist whose economic and personal ties to artisanal print culture and cultural nationalists ensured that he was surrounded by and contributed to anti-Catholic publications and organizations. Walcutt was not anti immigrant himself, nor a member of a nativist party, but his kin, friends, and patrons publicly expressed warnings about Catholic and foreign political influence. And that has implications for better-known nineteenth-century historical and narrative art. Precisely because Walcutt’s profile and milieu were so typical for artists in this period, this book is able to demonstrate how central this supposedly fringe movement was to viewers and makers of American art.