Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
28 produkter
Houston
The Unknown City, 1836-1946
Häftad, 2011
338 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In their willingness to leave home and country to create a new city and a new nation, the first Houstonians were a special breed. They were adventurers and builders; they were citizens of the world. This is the story of these people, their descendants and like-minded successors, and their city, up …
Galveston That Was
Häftad, 2014
467 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In a 1963 novel, Edna Ferber compared the city of Galveston to Miss Havisham, the grey, mournful abandoned bride of Dickens' Great Expectations. A thriving port city in the nineteenth century, Galveston suffered catastrophe in the twentieth as a deadly hurricane and shifting economics dropped a …
Houston, Space City USA
Av Ray Viator
Inbunden, 2019
424 kr
Lägg i varukorg
On July 20, 1969, humanity paused with attention locked to television and radio broadcasts as the astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission dramatically touched down on the dusty face of the moon. The first word from the lunar surface: Houston.Houston, Space City USA is a visual celebration of the city's …
All the Houses Were Painted White
Historic Homes of the Texas Golden Crescent
Av Gary Dunnam
Inbunden, 2019
467 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Many of the historic houses in and around the town of Victoria, Texas, were built between 1875 and 1910 by immigrant owners. From 1973 to 1975, with the support of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rick Gardner traveled throughout the region, taking photographs of these historic …
Historic Homes of Bastrop, Texas Volume 23
Av Robbie Moore Sanders, Sandra Chipley Kellogg
Inbunden, 2022
467 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Bastrop, Texas: a picturesque community of modest size located at the edge of the Lost Pines Forest in Central Texas. Yet, from its vantage point on the banks of the Colorado River, this town boasts 131 sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying the community for its …
Preston Morgan Bolton, Texas Architect and Civic Leader Volume 21
Inbunden, 2022
536 kr
Lägg i varukorg
“Always have a view,” one of Preston Bolton’s favorite sayings, speaks to his architecture, which made the landscape an integral part of the built environment. In his sixty-plus–year architectural career, Bolton, outstanding alumnus of the Texas A&M College of Architecture, designed over 798 …
Architecture of Birdsall P. Briscoe Volume 24
Av Stephen Fox
Inbunden, 2022
984 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Birdsall P. Briscoe (1876–1971) practiced architecture from 1912 to 1956, the span of years during which Houston was transformed from an ambitious town on Buffalo Bayou into an international city, its economy powered by cotton, trade, and oil. The country houses Briscoe designed for three …
Architecture of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s-1960s
Av Anat Geva
Inbunden, 2023
844 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the aftermath of World War II, the United States experienced a rapid expansion of church and synagogue construction as part of a larger “religious boom.” The synagogues built in that era illustrate how their designs pushed the envelope in aesthetics and construction. The design of the synagogues …
Monumental
The Art of David Adickes
Av Michael Henderson, Melissa Mednicov
Inbunden, 2025
422 kr
Lägg i varukorg
As the creator of the 67-foot-tall “Big Sam” statue of Sam Houston that overlooks Interstate 45 just south of Huntsville, Texas, David Adickes is a pivotal, if sometimes enigmatic, figure in Texas art. Though he made many contributions to the early development of the Houston art scene and to Texas …
Art of Dreams, Visions, Other Worlds
Interviews with Texas Artists
Inbunden, 2024
639 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Robert Craig Bunch has interviewed sixty current Texas artists, focusing on painters, printmakers, sculptors, and others whose work, broadly speaking, is inspired by dreams, visions, myths, and imagined worlds. Working in the tradition of predecessors such as Bror Utter, Ben Culwell, Maudee Carron, …
Joy to the World
The Life and Paintings of Lu Ann Barrow
Inbunden, 2026
409 kr
Lägg i varukorg
"The tenor of my paintings is usually joyful and celebratory with rare expressions of sorrow or even shadows," Lu Ann Barrow wrote in her artist's statement. Represented for many years by the respected Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden in Dallas, she acquired many admirers, including former …
Choreographing a House
Dan Phillips, Apostle for Sustainable Housing
Av Dan Phillips, Robert Maninger m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
448 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Anyone who has ever driven into Huntsville, Texas, from the west on US Highway 190 has glimpsed the now-famous "Cowboy Boot House": a fully functional 700-square-foot, two-bedroom home that features a spiral staircase up to the top of the "boot," offering a panoramic view of the community. It's …
Kermit Oliver
Enduring Spirit
Av Susie Kalil
Inbunden, 2027
1501 kr
Kommande
"What does it mean to be human at a time when we're struggling with the nature of our humanity, when the world as we thought we knew it is fluid and not fixed? How do we make sense of a world that subjects us daily to a barrage of different technologically processed versions of reality? How do we …
Given
Photographs and Dispatches from El Paso Cemeteries
Inbunden, 2026
467 kr
Kommande
Given: Photographs and Dispatches from El Paso Cemeteries is composed of colorful photography, poetry, and a larger history of three adjoining cemeteries—Concordia Cemetery, Temple Mt. Sinai, and B'nai Zion Cemetery. The collection presents an intriguing view of boundaries: between life and death; …
Texas Houses Built by the Book
The Use of Published Designs, 1850-1925
Inbunden, 1999
467 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Provides an introduction to the use of published designs in Texas, examining how homeowners, carpenters, contractors, developers, and even architects took advantage of these designs available during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Twentieth-Century Doctor
House Calls to Space Medicine
Inbunden, 1999
363 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Dr. Mavis Kelsey’s career spanned some of the most astounding years ever in the development of medicine as a profession. Medical research and technological developments fundamentally transformed the treatment of patients during those years, but perhaps as important was the transformation of what …
Galveston That Was
Inbunden, 1999
582 kr
Tillfälligt slut
An updated edition of the book which illustrates the city of Galveston and, as a result, inspired an effort to restore its architectural treasures.
Remembrance and the Design of Place
Inbunden, 2000
441 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Memories of places identify people as individuals and tie them to networks of culture and society. In this work, Frances Downing suggests ways to translate the memory of personal experience and transfer it intentionally to architecture and design.
Remembrance and the Design of Place
Häftad, 2000
264 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Memories of places identify people as individuals and tie them to networks of culture and society. In this work, Frances Downing suggests ways to translate the memory of personal experience and transfer it intentionally to architecture and design.
Engraved Prints of Texas, 1554-1900
Av Mavis P. Kelsey, Robin Brandt Hutchison
Inbunden, 2005
697 kr
Tillfälligt slut
For centuries Texas has fired the imagination of artists as well as explorers and settlers. Before modern photography, engravings were the principal type of illustration used by artists to portray images of the state. Now, in this extensive catalogue, authors Mavis P. Kelsey, Sr., and Robin Brandt …
Alleys and Back Buildings of Galveston
An Architectural and Social History
Inbunden, 2007
467 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Alleys and back buildings, the subject of Ellen Beasley's visually compelling book, have been a feature of Galveston since its early days as a growing port city on the upper Texas Gulf Coast. And yet, most visitors to the island, as well as studies of the American urban environment, have largely …
Country Houses of John F. Staub
Av Stephen Fox
Inbunden, 2007
869 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In the early 1920s, architect John F. Staub, a native of Knoxville, Tennessee, who had studied at MIT and worked in New York, came to the burgeoning city of Houston as an assistant to nationally prominent architect Harrie T. Lindeberg. Staub was charged with administering construction of three …
Moodys of Galveston and Their Mansion
Häftad, 2010
223 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In 1900, just a few months after the deadly hurricane of September, W. L. Moody Jr. and his family moved into the four-story mansion at the corner of Broadway and Twenty-sixth Street in Galveston. For the next eight decades, the Moody family occupied the 28,000-square-foot home: raising a family, …
Houston's Hermann Park
A Century of Community
Av Bradley
Inbunden, 2013
524 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Richly illustrated with rare period photographs, Houston’s Hermann Park: A Century of Community provides a vivid history of Houston’s oldest and most important urban park. Author and historian Barrie Scardino Bradley sets Hermann Park in both a local and a national context as this grand park …
Houston's Forgotten Heritage
Landscape, Houses, Interiors, 1824-1914
Av Dorothy Knox Howe Houghton, Barrie M. Scardino Bradley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
582 kr
Tillfälligt slut
This ambitious book tells a richly detailed story of Houston home life and culture from the settlement of Harrisburg and Houston in the 1820s and 1830s to World War I, when rapid economic development and modernization began to spell demolition for many notable nineteenth-century houses and public …
Master Builder of the Lower Rio Grande
Heinrich Portscheller
Av W. Eugene George, Mary Carolyn Hollers George m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
422 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In 1865, Heinrich Portscheller emigrated to Mexico from his native Germany, perhaps motivated by a desire to avoid compulsory military service in the Austro-Prussian War. The scion of a well-known family of masons and master builders, he had the misfortune to disembark at Veracruz during the …
Collision
The Contemporary Art Scene in Houston, 1972–1985
Av Pete Gershon
Inbunden, 2018
754 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In this expansive and vigorous survey of the Houston art scene of the 1970s and 1980s, author Pete Gershon describes the city's emergence as a locus for the arts, fueled by a boom in oil prices and by the arrival of several catalyzing figures, including museum director James Harithas and sculptor …
Art of Roger Winter
Fire and Ice
Av Susie Kalil
Inbunden, 2020
582 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Roger Winter has always been preoccupied with 'recording reality in all its strangeness,' in the words of biographer and art historian Susie Kalil. His works partake of wide-ranging influences: childhood memories of gospel hymns blaring from a loudspeaker atop the 'Holy Roller' church near his …
