Curbstone Sketches

Curbstone Sketches
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Total Pages : 350
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105119803463
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Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Curbstone Sketches by : Meir Joel Wigoder

The Curbstone Brokers

The Curbstone Brokers
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Publisher : Beard Books
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 1893122654
ISBN-13 : 9781893122659
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis The Curbstone Brokers by : Robert Sobel

Scribner's Magazine ...

Scribner's Magazine ...
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Total Pages : 1458
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105007468163
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Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

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Picturing the City

Picturing the City
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 420
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ISBN-10 : 9780520220188
ISBN-13 : 0520220188
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Picturing the City by : Rebecca Zurier

"Zurier vividly locates the Ashcan School artists within the early twentieth-century crosscurrents of newspaper journalism, literary realism, illustration, sociology, and urban spectatorship. Her compassionate study newly assesses the artists' rejection of 'genteel' New York, their alignments with mass media, and their innovative ways of seeing in the modern city."—Wanda M. Corn, author of The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-35 If the Ashcan School brought a special and embracing eye to the city, Rebecca Zurier in her richly contextual and impressively interdisciplinary book explains and evokes that historically specific urban vision in all its richness. Finally, in Picturing the City, we have the study these painters have long deserved. And we gain new and delightful access to New York City at the moment of its emergence as a compelling embodiment of metropolitan modernity."—Thomas Bender, Director, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University "Picturing the City is both meticulous and wide-ranging in its assessment of the Ashcan artists and their passionate efforts to represent New York. It charts their pleasures and problems, warmth and prejudices, generosity and differences, originality and formula. It takes seriously their habits as journalists and provides the most complete sense of their immersion in a world of urban spectatorship and vision. Rebecca Zurier has written a wonderful, timely book that will be a benchmark for any future discussions of them."—Anthony W. Lee, author of Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco "Rebecca Zurier takes us on an intellectually exhilarating and breathtakingly beautiful visual voyage through turn-of-the-century New York City as the Ashcan painters saw it. As we watch them learn a new way of looking in the commercially dynamic, sensual New York of a century ago, we too see that time and place with fresh eyes. Inevitably, thanks to Zurier, the way we look at city life today will change as well."—Lizabeth Cohen, author of A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America

Sketches

Sketches
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Total Pages : 198
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105048049295
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Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Sketches by : Charles Dickens

Scribner's Magazine

Scribner's Magazine
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Total Pages : 1090
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015005454650
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Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Scribner's Magazine by : Edward Livermore Burlingame

Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography

Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 1630
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ISBN-10 : 9781135873264
ISBN-13 : 1135873267
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography by : John Hannavy

The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of world photography up to the beginning of the twentieth century. It sets out to be the standard, definitive reference work on the subject for years to come. Its coverage is global – an important ‘first’ in that authorities from all over the world have contributed their expertise and scholarship towards making this a truly comprehensive publication. The Encyclopedia presents new and ground-breaking research alongside accounts of the major established figures in the nineteenth century arena. Coverage includes all the key people, processes, equipment, movements, styles, debates and groupings which helped photography develop from being ‘a solution in search of a problem’ when first invented, to the essential communication tool, creative medium, and recorder of everyday life which it had become by the dawn of the twentieth century. The sheer breadth of coverage in the 1200 essays makes the Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography an essential reference source for academics, students, researchers and libraries worldwide.

Beyond the Architect's Eye

Beyond the Architect's Eye
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : 9780812223095
ISBN-13 : 0812223098
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Beyond the Architect's Eye by : Mary N. Woods

Typical architectural photography freezes buildings in an ideal moment and rarely captures what photographer Berenice Abbott called the medium's power to depict "how the past jostled the present." In Beyond the Architect's Eye, Mary N. Woods expands on this range of images through a rich analysis that commingles art, amateur, and documentary photography, genres usually not considered architectural but that often take the built environment as their subject. Woods explores how photographers used their built environment to capture the disparate American landscapes prior to World War II, when urban and rural areas grew further apart in the face of skyscrapers, massive industrialization, and profound cultural shifts. Central to this study is the work of Alfred Stieglitz, Frances Benjamin Johnston, and Marion Post Wolcott, but Woods weaves a wider narrative that also includes Alice Austen, Gertrude Käsebier, Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Morgan and Marvin Smith, Eudora Welty, Samuel Gottscho, Walker Evans, Max Waldman, and others. In such disparate places as New York City, the rural South, and the burgeoning metropolis of Miami, these unconventional architectural photographers observed buildings as deeply connected to their context. Whereas Stieglitz captured New York as the quintessential modern urban landscape in the period, the South was its opposite, a land supposedly frozen in the past. Yet just as this myth of the Old South crystallized in photographs like Johnston's, a New South shaped by popular culture and modern industry arose. Miami embodied both of these visions. In Wolcott's work, agricultural fields where stoop labor persisted were juxtaposed with Art Deco hotels, a popular modernism of the machine age that remade Miami Beach into a miniaturized "Manhattan on the beach." Beyond the Architect's Eye is a groundbreaking study that melds histories of American art, cities, and architecture with visual studies of landscape, photography, and cultural geography.

Writing for Print

Writing for Print
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Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433082528807
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Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Writing for Print by : Harry Franklin Harrington