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22 produkter
Sargent to Basquiat
Av Anthony E. Grudin, Alexander Nemerov
Inbunden, 2016
594 kr
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On the occasion of the University of Vermont's 225th anniversary, the Fleming Museum of Art presents an exhibition and accompanying catalogue featuring works from the outstanding art collections of the University's alumni. Highlights include painting, sculpture, and works on paper by John Singer …
Forest
A Fable of America in the 1830s
Inbunden, 2023
372 kr
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A vivid historical imagining of life in the early United States“One of the richest books ever to come my way.”—Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Shipping News“This is a wonderful book. . . . An extraordinary achievement.”—Edmund de Waal, New York Times bestselling author of The …
Hotel Texas
An Art Exhibition for the President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy
Av Olivier Meslay, Scott Barker m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
238 kr
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The story of a bittersweet, impromptu art exhibition for President and Mrs. KennedyThe events associated with John F. Kennedy’s death are etched into our nation’s memory. This fascinating book tells a less familiar part of the story, about a special art exhibition organized by a group of Fort Worth …
Danny Lyon
Message to the Future
Av Julian Cox, Elisabeth Sussman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
605 kr
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The first comprehensive overview of an influential American photographer and filmmaker whose work is known for its intimacy and social engagementComing of age in the 1960s, the photographer Danny Lyon (b. 1942) distinguished himself with work that emphasized intimate social engagement. In 1962 Lyon …
Icons of Grief
Val Lewton's Home Front Pictures
Häftad, 2005
324 kr
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This beautifully written study looks at the haunting, melancholy horror films Val Lewton made between 1942 and 1946 and finds them to be powerful commentaries on the American home front during World War II. Alexander Nemerov focuses on the iconic, isolated figures who appear in four of Lewton's …
Acting in the Night
Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War
Inbunden, 2010
843 kr
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What can the performance of a single play on one specific night tell us about the world this event inhabited so briefly? Alexander Nemerov takes a performance of Macbeth in Washington, DC on October 17, 1863 - with Abraham Lincoln in attendance - to explore this question and illuminate American …
Acting in the Night
Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War
E-bok, 2010
1266 kr
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What can the performance of a single play on one specific night tell us about the world this event inhabited so briefly? Alexander Nemerov takes a performance of Macbeth in Washington, DC on October 17, 1863—with Abraham Lincoln in attendance—to explore this question and illuminate American art, …
Fierce Poise
Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
Häftad, 2022
206 kr
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A National Book Critics Circle finalist • O ne of Vogue 's Best Books of the Year A dazzling biography of one of the twentieth century's most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler, as she came of age as an artist in postwar New York “The magic of Alexander Nemerov's portrait of Helen …
Wartime Kiss
Visions of the Moment in the 1940s
Inbunden, 2012
350 kr
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Wartime Kiss is a personal meditation on the haunting power of American photographs and films from World War II and the later 1940s. Starting with a stunning reinterpretation of one of the most famous photos of all time, Alfred Eisenstaedt's image of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J …
Soulmaker
The Times of Lewis Hine
Inbunden, 2016
491 kr
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Between 1908 and 1917, the American photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine (1874-1940) took some of the most memorable pictures of child workers ever made. Traveling around the United States while working for the National Child Labor Committee, he photographed children in textile mills, coal …
Forest
A Fable of America in the 1830s
E-bok, 2023
328 kr
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A vivid historical imagining of life in the early United States “One of the richest books ever to come my way.”—Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Shipping News “This is a wonderful book. . . . An extraordinary achievement.”—Edmund de Waal, New York Times bestselling author of The …
Forest
A Fable of America in the 1830s
Häftad, 2024
253 kr
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A vivid historical imagining of life in the early United States“One of the richest books ever to come my way.”—Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Shipping News“This is a wonderful book. . . . An extraordinary achievement.”—Edmund de Waal, New York Times bestselling author of The …
Experience
Häftad, 2017
229 kr
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In his noteworthy theoretical essay "Experience," Ralph Waldo Emerson writes that humans by nature cannot fully grasp life as lived. If this is so, how capable are we of expressing our experiences in works of art? Despite this formidable challenge, for the past thirty years, scholarship in American …
Wartime Kiss
Visions of the Moment in the 1940s
E-bok, 2012
470 kr
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A deeply personal meditation on the haunting power of American photos and films of the 1940s Wartime Kiss is a personal meditation on the haunting power of American photographs and films from World War II and the later 1940s. Starting with a stunning reinterpretation of one of the most famous …
Soulmaker
The Times of Lewis Hine
E-bok, 2016
661 kr
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A personal reassessment of Lewis Hine''s iconic, haunting photos of child workers in the early twentieth century Between 1908 and 1917, the American photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine (1874–1940) took some of the most memorable pictures of child workers ever made. Traveling around the United …
True Grit - American Prints from 1900 to 1950
Av Stephanie Schrader, James Glisson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
330 kr
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In the first half of the twentieth century, a group of American artists influenced by the painter and teacher Robert Henri aimed toreject the pretenses of academic fine art and polite society. Embracing the democratic inclusiveness of the Progressive movement, these artists turned to making prints, …
Norman Rockwell
At Home in Vermont
Av Carolyn Bauer, Thomas Denenberg m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
313 kr
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Inthese works, Rockwell offered a nation battered by the Great Depression andWorld War II a reassuring image of American life: orderly, self-reliant, andpicturesque. Through paintings and illustrations, Rockwell captured not simplyscenes of New England life, but a deeply rooted ethos-one in which …
Summoning Pearl Harbor
Häftad, 2017
108 kr
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Summoning Pearl Harbor is a mesmerizing display of linguistic force that redefines remembering. How do words make the past appear? In what way does the historian summon bygone events? What is this kind of remembering, and for whom do we recall the dead, or the past? In this highly original …
The Body of Raphaelle Peale
Still Life and Selfhood, 1812–1824
Inbunden, 2001
676 kr
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The American painter Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825) left a legacy of vibrantly beautiful still lifes depicting objects such as fruit, vegetables, and meat. This book explores the artist, presenting a reading of these paintings and focusing on the uncanny quality of Raphaelle's still-life objects.
Silent Dialogues: Diane Arbus & Howard Nemerov
Häftad, 2015
320 kr
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Silent Dialogues, by art historian Alexander Nemerov, is a probing, intimate reflection about photographer Diane Arbus, the author's aunt, and her brother, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Howard Nemerov, the author's father. "I have no memories of Diane Arbus," begins Alexander Nemerov in the first of …
Ralph Eugene Meatyard: American Mystic
Inbunden, 2017
477 kr
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Meatyard as self-taught visionary: a portrait of the photographer by acclaimed art historian Alexander NemerovThe legendary, mysterious photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard (1925–72) lived in Lexington, Kentucky, working in a close-knit community of artists and writers while making his living as an …
