AskART.com: Nancy Elizabeth Prophet - 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 AskART.com: Nancy Elizabeth Prophet write by . This book was released on . AskART.com: Nancy Elizabeth Prophet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. AskART.com presents a biographical sketch of African-American artist Nancy Elizabeth Prophet (1890-1960). Additional information for Prophet includes a bibliography of publications about the artist, museum holdings, current exhibits, images of the artist's work, etc. Auction records, including highest prices, are available only to AskART members.
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange - 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 Dorothea Lange write by Linda Gordon. This book was released on 2010-09-21. Dorothea Lange available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introduction : "A camera is a tool for learning how to see ...".
Central to Their Lives
Central to Their Lives - 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 Central to Their Lives write by Lynne Blackman. This book was released on 2018-06-20. Central to Their Lives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scholarly essays on the achievements of female artists working in and inspired by the American South Looking back at her lengthy career just four years before her death, modernist painter Nell Blaine said, "Art is central to my life. Not being able to make or see art would be a major deprivation." The Virginia native's creative path began early, and, during the course of her life, she overcame significant barriers in her quest to make and even see art, including serious vision problems, polio, and paralysis. And then there was her gender. In 1957 Blaine was hailed by Life magazine as someone to watch, profiled alongside four other emerging painters whom the journalist praised "not as notable women artists but as notable artists who happen to be women." In Central to Their Lives, twenty-six noted art historians offer scholarly insight into the achievements of female artists working in and inspired by the American South. Spanning the decades between the late 1890s and early 1960s, this volume examines the complex challenges these artists faced in a traditionally conservative region during a period in which women's social, cultural, and political roles were being redefined and reinterpreted. The presentation—and its companion exhibition—features artists from all of the Southern states, including Dusti Bongé, Anne Goldthwaite, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Ida Kohlmeyer, Loïs Mailou Jones, Alma Thomas, and Helen Turner. These essays examine how the variables of historical gender norms, educational barriers, race, regionalism, sisterhood, suffrage, and modernism mitigated and motivated these women who were seeking expression on canvas or in clay. Whether working from studio space, in spare rooms at home, or on the world stage, these artists made remarkable contributions to the art world while fostering future generations of artists through instruction, incorporating new aesthetics into the fine arts, and challenging the status quo. Sylvia Yount, the Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator in Charge of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, provides a foreword to the volume. Contributors: Sara C. Arnold Daniel Belasco Lynne Blackman Carolyn J. Brown Erin R. Corrales-Diaz John A. Cuthbert Juilee Decker Nancy M. Doll Jane W. Faquin Elizabeth C. Hamilton Elizabeth S. Hawley Maia Jalenak Karen Towers Klacsmann Sandy McCain Dwight McInvaill Courtney A. McNeil Christopher C. Oliver Julie Pierotti Deborah C. Pollack Robin R. Salmon Mary Louise Soldo Schultz Martha R. Severens Evie Torrono Stephen C. Wicks Kristen Miller Zohn
A to Z of American Women Writers
A to Z of American Women Writers - 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 A to Z of American Women Writers write by Carol Kort. This book was released on 2014-05-14. A to Z of American Women Writers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents a biographical dictionary profiling important women authors, including birth and death dates, accomplishments and bibliography of each author's work.
Sweet Freedom's Plains
Sweet Freedom's Plains - 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 Sweet Freedom's Plains write by Shirley Ann Wilson Moore. This book was released on 2016-10-20. Sweet Freedom's Plains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The westward migration of nearly half a million Americans in the mid-nineteenth century looms large in U.S. history. Classic images of rugged Euro-Americans traversing the plains in their prairie schooners still stir the popular imagination. But this traditional narrative, no matter how alluring, falls short of the actual—and far more complex—reality of the overland trails. Among the diverse peoples who converged on the western frontier were African American pioneers—men, women, and children. Whether enslaved or free, they too were involved in this transformative movement. Sweet Freedom’s Plains is a powerful retelling of the migration story from their perspective. Tracing the journeys of black overlanders who traveled the Mormon, California, Oregon, and other trails, Shirley Ann Wilson Moore describes in vivid detail what they left behind, what they encountered along the way, and what they expected to find in their new, western homes. She argues that African Americans understood advancement and prosperity in ways unique to their situation as an enslaved and racially persecuted people, even as they shared many of the same hopes and dreams held by their white contemporaries. For African Americans, the journey westward marked the beginning of liberation and transformation. At the same time, black emigrants’ aspirations often came into sharp conflict with real-world conditions in the West. Although many scholars have focused on African Americans who settled in the urban West, their early trailblazing voyages into the Oregon Country, Utah Territory, New Mexico Territory, and California deserve greater attention. Having combed censuses, maps, government documents, and white overlanders’ diaries, along with the few accounts written by black overlanders or passed down orally to their living descendants, Moore gives voice to the countless, mostly anonymous black men and women who trekked the plains and mountains. Sweet Freedom’s Plains places African American overlanders where they belong—at the center of the western migration narrative. Their experiences and perspectives enhance our understanding of this formative period in American history.
