Engraved Prints of Texas - 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 Engraved Prints of Texas write by Mavis Parrott Kelsey. This book was released on 2005. Engraved Prints of Texas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of illustrated black-and-white engravings depicting the history of Texas from 1554 to 1900 presented chronologically and featuring a brief introduction to the historical background of each era.
The Courthouses of Texas
The Courthouses of Texas - 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 The Courthouses of Texas write by Mavis P. Kelsey. This book was released on 2007-03-20. The Courthouses of Texas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A county courthouse stands not only as the center of government, but also as the center of civic pride. Some with stately towers and arched doors or windows, some with high brick chimneys and mansard roofs, some in modern concrete and glass, the 254 courthouses of Texas provide an invitation to public life, a testament to the ideal of justice, and an introduction to period architecture. It is no wonder, then, that many tourists each year visit these edifices. This new edition of a classic, indispensable, full-color guide—a true collector’s item for Texas history fans—will help travelers choose which courthouses they want to add to their trips and view them knowledgeably. For each county a color photograph pictures the courthouse and an account sketches the sequence of the seats of government, the location and style of the current building, and tidbits of fascinating lore about county and county seat names and history. Courthouses and the “squares” around many of them offer a bonanza for history buffs, antique collectors, genealogists, architecture enthusiasts, and photographers. Many of them house or are near local history museums, and many display historical markers that introduce the area to visitors. Especially in many smaller county seats, the courthouse square offers a genre scene of a special moment in Texas’ life. Included in this updated edition are the latest views of some of Texas’ most historic and architecturally significant courthouses, including those restored under the Texas Historical Commission’s Historic Courthouse Preservation Program. For all those who plan their travels to see courthouses, and all those who in their travels for other reasons enjoy detours into the heritage and pride of a people, this beautiful and informative book opens the way.
Midcentury Modern Art in Texas
Midcentury Modern Art in Texas - 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 Midcentury Modern Art in Texas write by Katie Robinson Edwards. This book was released on 2014-07-01. Midcentury Modern Art in Texas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Before Abstract Expressionism of New York City was canonized as American postwar modernism, the United States was filled with localized manifestations of modern art. One such place where considerable modernist activity occurred was Texas, where artists absorbed and interpreted the latest, most radical formal lessons from Mexico, the East Coast, and Europe, while still responding to the state's dramatic history and geography. This barely known chapter in the story of American art is the focus of Midcentury Modern Art in Texas. Presenting new research and artwork that has never before been published, Katie Robinson Edwards examines the contributions of many modernist painters and sculptors in Texas, with an emphasis on the era's most abstract and compelling artists. Edwards looks first at the Dallas Nine and the 1936 Texas Centennial, which offered local artists a chance to take stock of who they were and where they stood within the national artistic setting. She then traces the modernist impulse through various manifestations, including the foundations of early Texas modernism in Houston; early practitioners of abstraction and non-objectivity; the Fort Worth Circle; artists at the University of Texas at Austin; Houston artists in the 1950s; sculpture in and around an influential Fort Worth studio; and, to see how some Texas artists fared on a national scale, the Museum of Modern Art's "Americans" exhibitions. The first full-length treatment of abstract art in Texas during this vital and canon-defining period, Midcentury Modern Art in Texas gives these artists their due place in American art, while also valuing the quality of Texan-ness that subtly undergirds much of their production.
Third Circuit of Prints by Texas Artists 1940-1941, Lone Star Printmakers
Third Circuit of Prints by Texas Artists 1940-1941, Lone Star Printmakers - 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 Third Circuit of Prints by Texas Artists 1940-1941, Lone Star Printmakers write by Lone Star Printmakers, Dallas, Tex. This book was released on 1941. Third Circuit of Prints by Texas Artists 1940-1941, Lone Star Printmakers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Texas Lithographs
Texas Lithographs - 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 Texas Lithographs write by Ron Tyler. This book was released on 2023-02-28. Texas Lithographs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Westward expansion in the United States was deeply intertwined with the technological revolutions of the nineteenth century, from telegraphy to railroads. Among the most important of these, if often forgotten, was the lithograph. Before photography became a dominant medium, lithography—and later, chromolithography—enabled inexpensive reproduction of color illustrations, transforming journalism and marketing and nurturing, for the first time, a global visual culture. One of the great subjects of the lithography boom was an emerging Euro-American colony in the Americas: Texas. The most complete collection of its kind—and quite possibly the most complete visual record of nineteenth-century Texas, period—Texas Lithographs is a gateway to the history of the Lone Star State in its most formative period. Ron Tyler assembles works from 1818 to 1900, many created by outsiders and newcomers promoting investment and settlement in Texas. Whether they depict the early French colony of Champ d’Asile, the Republic of Texas, and the war with Mexico, or urban growth, frontier exploration, and the key figures of a nascent Euro-American empire, the images collected here reflect an Eden of opportunity—a fairy-tale dream that remains foundational to Texans’ sense of self and to the world’s sense of Texas.
