Author: Nathaniel Parker WillisPublisher: London : G. Virtue
ISBN:
Category : Middle Atlantic States
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
American Scenery
Author: Nathaniel Parker WillisPublisher: London : G. Virtue
ISBN:
Category : Middle Atlantic States
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Our Native Land. Or, Glances at American Scenery and Places, with Sketches of Life and Adventure
Author: George Titus FerrisPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385481066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Book Notes
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Consisting of literary gossip, criticisms of books and local historical matters connected with Rhode Island.
Trace
Author: Lauret SavoyPublisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619026686
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
With a New Preface by the Author Through personal journeys and historical inquiry, this PEN Literary Award finalist explores how America’s still unfolding history and ideas of “race” have marked its people and the land. Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life–defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent’s past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her—paths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists from Europe, and peoples indigenous to this land—lie largely eroded and lost. A provocative and powerful mosaic that ranges across a continent and across time, from twisted terrain within the San Andreas Fault zone to a South Carolina plantation, from national parks to burial grounds, from “Indian Territory” and the U.S.–Mexico Border to the U.S. capital, Trace grapples with a searing national history to reveal the often unvoiced presence of the past. In distinctive and illuminating prose that is attentive to the rhythms of language and landscapes, she weaves together human stories of migration, silence, and displacement, as epic as the continent they survey, with uplifted mountains, braided streams, and eroded canyons. Gifted with this manifold vision, and graced by a scientific and lyrical diligence, she delves through fragmented histories—natural, personal, cultural—to find shadowy outlines of other stories of place in America. "Every landscape is an accumulation," reads one epigraph. "Life must be lived amidst that which was made before." Courageously and masterfully, Lauret Savoy does so in this beautiful book: she lives there, making sense of this land and its troubled past, reconciling what it means to inhabit terrains of memory—and to be one.
Catalogue of the Astor Library
Author: Astor LibraryPublisher: Cambridge [Mass.] : Riverside Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description
In Defence of Rhode Island as Founded by Roger Williams
Author: Sidney Smith RiderCatalogue of the Astor Library
Author: Astor library (N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
Annual Report of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society to the Legislature of the State of New York
Author: American Scenic and Historic Preservation SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
American Book Prices Current
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.
Different Views in Hudson River School Painting
Author: Judith H. O'ToolePublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231138202
Category : Art, American
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Hudson River School artists shared an awe of the magnificence of nature as well as a belief that the untamed American scenery reflected the national character. In this new work, color reproductions of more than 115 paintings capture the beauty and illuminate the aesthetic and philosophical principles of the Hudson River School painters. The pieces included in this volume reflect a period (1825-1875) when American landscape painting was most thoroughly explored and formalized with personal, artistic, cultural, and national identifications. Judith Hansen O'Toole reveals the subtleties and quiet majesty of the works and discusses their shared iconography, the ways in which artists responded to one another's paintings, and how the paintings reflected nineteenth-century American cultural, intellectual, and social milieus. Different Views is also the first major study to examine closely the Hudson River School artists' practice of creating thematically related pairs and series of paintings. O'Toole considers painters' use of this method to express different moods and philosophical concepts. She observes artists' representations of landscape and their nuanced depictions of weather, light, and season. By comparing and contrasting Hudson River School paintings, O'Toole reveals differences in meaning, emotion, and cultural connotation. Different Views in Hudson River School Painting contains reproductions of works from a range of prominent and lesser-known artists, including Jasper Francis Cropsey, Sanford Robinson Gifford, Asher B. Durand, Frederic Edwin Church, Albert Bierstadt, John Frederic Kensett, and John William Casilear. The works come from a leading private collection and were recently exhibited at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art.