American Visions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Visions write by Robert Hughes. This book was released on 1997. American Visions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Robert Hughes begins where American art itself began, with the Native Americans and the first Spanish invaders in the Southwest; he ends with the art of today. In between, in a scholarly text that crackles with wit, intelligence and insight, he tells the story of how American art developed. Hughes investigates the changing tastes of the American public; he explores the effects on art of America's landscape of unparalleled variety and richness; he examines the impact of the melting-pot of cultures that America has always been. Most of all he concentrates on the paintings and art objects themselves and on the men and women - from Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins to Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe, from Arthur Dove and George Bellows to Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko -awho created them. This is an uncompromising and refreshingly opinionated exploration of America, told through the lens of its art.
Visions in a Seer Stone
Visions in a Seer Stone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Visions in a Seer Stone write by William L. Davis. This book was released on 2020-04-08. Visions in a Seer Stone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this interdisciplinary work, William L. Davis examines Joseph Smith's 1829 creation of the Book of Mormon, the foundational text of the Latter Day Saint movement. Positioning the text in the history of early American oratorical techniques, sermon culture, educational practices, and the passion for self-improvement, Davis elucidates both the fascinating cultural context for the creation of the Book of Mormon and the central role of oral culture in early nineteenth-century America. Drawing on performance studies, religious studies, literary culture, and the history of early American education, Davis analyzes Smith's process of oral composition. How did he produce a history spanning a period of 1,000 years, filled with hundreds of distinct characters and episodes, all cohesively tied together in an overarching narrative? Eyewitnesses claimed that Smith never looked at notes, manuscripts, or books—he simply spoke the words of this American religious epic into existence. Judging the truth of this process is not Davis's interest. Rather, he reveals a kaleidoscope of practices and styles that converged around Smith's creation, with an emphasis on the evangelical preaching styles popularized by the renowned George Whitefield and John Wesley.
American Visions of Europe
American Visions of Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Visions of Europe write by John Lamberton Harper. This book was released on 1996-06-13. American Visions of Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a biographical study of three American statesmen, concentrating on the development of their distinct attitudes and political programs with respect to the problem of Europe in American foreign policy: Roosevelt's partial internationalism, aiming at the retirement of Europe from world politics while avoiding American entanglement; Kennan's partial isolationism, aspiring to restore Europe's centrality and autonomy through temporary American engagement; and Acheson's accommodating interventionism, establishing the United States as a permanent power in Europe at the behest of European and American interests. The purpose of the book is to explain how and why they arrived at very different solutions to the problem of internecine conflict in Europe, and to show the continuing relevance of their ideas. Three learned and elegantly written portraits are set against the background of the dramatic events and foreign policy controversies of the twentieth century.
Harker's Barns
Harker's Barns - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Harker's Barns write by Jim Heynen. This book was released on 2003. Harker's Barns available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Complementing Harker's photographs are vignettes by poet and writer Jim Heynen. Both whimsical and endearing, each vignette treats barns as organic and intelligent entities, reflecting the living history that can be found inside each rural structure."--BOOK JACKET.
Chicano Visions
Chicano Visions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chicano Visions write by Cheech Marin. This book was released on 2002-09-23. Chicano Visions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originating in the early seventies, Chicano art long remained unrecognised by the art and gallery world. This text features the work of 26 Chicano artists and marks the transition of this unique and exciting movement into the critical fold of contemporary art.
