The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman

The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 497
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ISBN-10 : 9780393066166
ISBN-13 : 0393066169
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman by : Benita Eisler

Highlights the life and work of the American painter, author, and traveler who specialized in images of Native Americans and who advocated for them before ultimately exploiting them in a live show that brought tragedy to both the artist and his performers.

A History of American Magazines, Volume II: 1850-1865

A History of American Magazines, Volume II: 1850-1865
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 652
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ISBN-10 : 0674395514
ISBN-13 : 9780674395510
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis A History of American Magazines, Volume II: 1850-1865 by : Frank Luther Mott

The first volume of this work, covering the period from 1741-1850, was issued in 1931 by another publisher, and is reissued now without change, under our imprint. The second volume covers the period from 1850 to 1865; the third volume, the period from 1865 to 1885. For each chronological period, Mr. Mott has provided a running history which notes the occurrence of the chief general magazines and the developments in the field of class periodicals, as well as publishing conditions during that period, the development of circulations, advertising, payments to contributors, reader attitudes, changing formats, styles and processes of illustration, and the like. Then in a supplement to that running history, he offers historical sketches of the chief magazines which flourished in the period. These sketches extend far beyond the chronological limitations of the period. The second and third volumes present, altogether, separate sketches of seventy-six magazines, including The North American Review, The Youth's Companion, The Liberator, The Independent, Harper's Monthly, Leslie's Weekly, Harper's Weekly, The Atlantic Monthly, St. Nicholas, and Puck. The whole is an unusual mirror of American civilization.

The Oxford Handbook of Time in Music

The Oxford Handbook of Time in Music
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 617
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ISBN-10 : 9780190947293
ISBN-13 : 0190947292
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Time in Music by : Mark Doffman

Music represents one of humanity's most vivid contemplations on the nature of time itself. The ways that music can modify, intensify, and even dismantle our understanding of time's passing is at the foundation of musical experience, and is common to listeners, composers, and performers alike. The Oxford Handbook of Time in Music provides a range of compelling new scholarship that examines the making of musical time, its effects and structures. Bringing together philosophical, psychological, and socio-cultural understandings of time in music, the chapters highlight the act of 'making' not just as cultural construction but also in terms of the perceptual, cognitive underpinnings that allow us to 'make' sense of time in music. Thus, the Handbook is a unique synthesis of divergent perspectives on the nature of time in music. With its focus on contemporary music (while paying attention to some of the generative temporalities of the nineteenth century), the volume establishes the richness and complexity of so much current music-making and in the process overcomes historic demarcations between art and popular musics.