Thomas Chambers

Author : Kathleen A. Foster
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300141054
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Thomas Chambers written by Kathleen A. Foster and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labeled as a traveling American folk artist when he was rediscovered in the mid-20th century, the mysterious Thomas Chambers here receives a fresh and creative reassessment. Although his distinctive sea- and landscapes appear in many American collections, little is known about this English-born painter, who arrived in New Orleans in 1832 and disappeared from record in the mid-1860s, leaving many paintings that later resurfaced in rural New York and Massachusetts. In this richly illustrated work, Kathleen A. Foster shows, however, that far from being simply an itinerant painter of folk art, Chambers actually enjoyed a professional, even entrepreneurial, relationship to the art world. Foster performs close studies of Chambers's known works, his stylistic relationship to his brother (English marine painter George Chambers), and a newly discovered American auction record of 1845. Chambers, she argues, provided a popular landscape art for a middle class of mixed cosmopolitan and folk tastes. Bringing "fancy" painting to this new constituency, Chambers worked outside academic circles, drawing astutely from popular culture. In the 20th century, his rediscovery as "America's first modern" paid tribute to his independent spirit and decorative panache. Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art Exhibition Schedule: Philadelphia Museum of Art (September 27 - December 28, 2008) The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York (February 8 - April 19, 2009) American Folk Art Museum, New York (September 29 - March 7, 2010) Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington (March 26 - May 30, 2010)

Author : Thomas A. Chambers
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801465672
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memories of War written by Thomas A. Chambers and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in the midst of the Civil War, its battlefields were being dedicated as hallowed ground. Today, those sites are among the most visited places in the United States. In contrast, the battlegrounds of the Revolutionary War had seemingly been forgotten in the aftermath of the conflict in which the nation forged its independence. Decades after the signing of the Constitution, the battlefields of Yorktown, Saratoga, Fort Moultrie, Ticonderoga, Guilford Courthouse, Kings Mountain, and Cowpens, among others, were unmarked except for crumbling forts and overgrown ramparts. Not until the late 1820s did Americans begin to recognize the importance of these places. In Memories of War, Thomas A. Chambers recounts America's rediscovery of its early national history through the rise of battlefield tourism in the first half of the nineteenth century. Travelers in this period, Chambers finds, wanted more than recitations of regimental movements when they visited battlefields; they desired experiences that evoked strong emotions and leant meaning to the bleached bones and decaying fortifications of a past age. Chambers traces this impulse through efforts to commemorate Braddock's Field and Ticonderoga, the cultivated landscapes masking the violent past of the Hudson River valley, the overgrown ramparts of Southern war sites, and the scenic vistas at War of 1812 battlefields along the Niagara River. Describing a progression from neglect to the Romantic embrace of the landscape and then to ritualized remembrance, Chambers brings his narrative up to the beginning of the Civil War, during and after which the memorialization of such sites became routine, assuming significant political and cultural power in the American imagination.

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Total Pages : 540 pages
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Author : Christopher Hellstrom
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595282024
Total Pages : 194 pages
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Download or read book The March written by Christopher Hellstrom and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set during the dawn of the twenty-first century, The March is the story of Justin Jaeger, a man who inspired a nation with the promise of brilliant leadership into the new millennia.

Author : Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 9780806312194
Total Pages : 470 pages
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Download or read book Virginia's Colonial Soldiers written by Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1988 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an authoritative register of Virginia's colonial soldiers, drawing on county court minutes, bounty land applications, records of courts martial, county militia rosters, and public records in England. Detailed information on soldiers' names, ranks, pay, places of birth, and appearance is divided into sections on different sources and different conflicts, including King George's War, the French and Indian War, and Dunmore's War. Useful for genealogists and historians. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Raymond Wilson Chambers
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
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Download or read book Thomas More written by Raymond Wilson Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 2 pages
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Author : Thomas A. Chambers
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
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Download or read book DRINKING WATERS written by Thomas A. Chambers and published by Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. This book was released on 2002-10-17 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth century men and women had few opportunities to socialize with those from other regions of the United States. The resorts of Virginia's western mountains and upstate New York's Saratoga Springs provided a rare meeting ground, one where the boundaries of class and region were defined, tested, solidified, broken, and repaired by the Civil War and its aftermath.

Author : Pennsylvania
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
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Download or read book Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 398 pages
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