Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Colonial
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Colonial Architecture and Other Early American Arts
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Colonial
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America
Author: James D. KornwolfPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801859861
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Incorporating more than 3,000 illustrations, Kornwolf's work conveys the full range of the colonial encounter with the continent's geography, from the high forms of architecture through formal landscape design and town planning. From these pages emerge the fine arts of environmental design, an understanding of the political and economic events that helped to determine settlement in North America, an appreciation of the various architectural and landscape forms that the settlers created, and an awareness of the diversity of the continent's geography and its peoples. Considering the humblest buildings along with the mansions of the wealthy and powerful, public buildings, forts, and churches, Kornwolf captures the true dynamism and diversity of colonial communities - their rivalries and frictions, their outlooks and attitudes - as they extended their hold on the land.
Artists of Colonial America
Author: Elisabeth Louise RoarkPublisher:
ISBN: 9780313094170
Category : Art, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Art & Industry in Early America
Author: Patricia E. KanePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300217846
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
This book presents new information on the export trade, patronage, artistic collaboration, and the small-scale shop traditions that defined early Rhode Island craftsmanship. This stunning volume features more than 200 illustrations of beautifully constructed and carved objects—including chairs, high chests, bureau tables, and clocks—that demonstrate the superb workmanship and artistic skill of the state’s furniture makers.
The American School
Author: Susan RatherPublisher: Paul Mellon Centre
ISBN: 9780300214611
Category : ART
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An in-depth look at the changing status of American artists in the 18th and early 19th century This fascinating book is the first comprehensive art-historical study of what it meant to be an American artist in the 18th- and early 19th-century transatlantic world. Susan Rather examines the status of artists from different geographical, professional, and material perspectives, and delves into topics such as portrait painting in Boston and London; the trade of art in Philadelphia and New York; the negotiability and usefulness of colonial American identity in Italy and London; and the shifting representation of artists in and from the former British colonies after the Revolutionary War, when London remained the most important cultural touchstone. The book interweaves nuanced analysis of well-known artists--John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, and Gilbert Stuart, among others--with accounts of non-elite painters and ephemeral texts and images such as painted signs and advertisements. Throughout, Rather questions the validity of the term "American," which she sees as provisional--the product of an evolving, multifaceted cultural construction. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Dutch Colonial Homes in America
Author: Roderic H. BlackburnPublisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This lavishly-illustrated volume provides an unprecedented look at twenty-eight houses (plus eleven barns and other structures) built in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by Dutch colonists in the north-eastern United States, primarily in upstate New York and along the Hudson River Valley, on Long Island and Staten Island, and in New Jersey. An authoritative work-- written by eminent experts in the field-- "Dutch Colonial Homes in America" explores the homes in their broader social context by focusing on the historical and religious forces of the times. This book is the first to investigate the meaning of the home and its aesthetics for the Dutch in America, and also the first to look at these homes as a form of art and craft and, importantly, the influence this form and these people had on the shape of the American house to come. The 200 spectacular new color photographs here are beautifully styled in a manner that recalls the paintings of Vermeer and evoke what might have been the ambiance of these homes hundreds of years ago.
Writings on Early American Architecture
Author: Frank John RoosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Colonial
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Art of Colonial Latin America
Author: Gauvin A. BaileyPublisher: Phaidon Press Limited
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
A lively survey of a critical period of Latin American art.
Among Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
The United States Catalog
Author: Mary BurnhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1612
Book Description