Author: Harry RedlPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The World of De Grazia, an Artist of the American Southwest
Author: Harry RedlDeGrazia and Mexican Cookery
Author: Rita DavenportPublisher: Northland Pub
ISBN: 9780873583077
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Mexican food recipes paired with De Grazia art
Irresistible Empire
Author: Victoria De GraziaPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674031180
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
The most significant conquest of the twentieth century may well have been the triumph of American consumer society over Europe's bourgeois civilization. It is this little-understood but world-shaking campaign that unfolds in Irresistible Empire, Victoria de Grazia's brilliant account of how the American standard of living defeated the European way of life and achieved the global cultural hegemony that is both its great strength and its key weakness today. De Grazia describes how, as America's market empire advanced with confidence through Europe, spreading consumer-oriented capitalism, all alternative strategies fell before it--first the bourgeois lifestyle, then the Third Reich's command consumption, and finally the grand experiment of Soviet-style socialist planning. Tracing the peculiar alliance that arrayed New World salesmanship, statecraft, and standardized goods against the Old World's values of status, craft, and good taste, Victoria de Grazia follows the United States' market-driven imperialism through a vivid series of cross-Atlantic incursions by the great inventions of American consumer society. We see Rotarians from Duluth in the company of the high bourgeoisie of Dresden; working-class spectators in ramshackle French theaters conversing with Garbo and Bogart; Stetson-hatted entrepreneurs from Kansas in the midst of fussy Milanese shoppers; and, against the backdrop of Rome's Spanish Steps and Paris's Opera Comique, Fast Food in a showdown with advocates for Slow Food. Demonstrating the intricacies of America's advance, de Grazia offers an intimate and historical dimension to debates over America's exercise of soft power and the process known as Americanization. She raises provocative questions about the quality of the good life, democracy, and peace that issue from the vaunted victory of mass consumer culture.
American Skin
Author: Don De GraziaPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684862220
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A timeless story about a young man's need to find comfort and a sense of belonging, as well as a stunning portrait of the class and racial tensions that pervade our society, "American Skin" "is the American story American literature is not complete without. . . . Full of images and humor and action and questions" (Carolyn Chute, author of "The Beans of Egypt, Maine."
De Grazia
Author: James W. JohnsonPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816598940
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Artist Ted De Grazia (1909–1982) lived life with passion and verve, embracing risk and romance, becoming a legend in Arizona, and gaining international acclaim. De Grazia: The Man and the Myths is a biography that reveals the eccentric, colorful man behind the myths. Born in Arizona Territory to Italian immigrant parents, De Grazia had a humble childhood as a copper miner’s son, which later influenced his famous persona. De Grazia often held forth at his gallery in Tucson’s Catalina foothills dressed in a pseudo-prospector’s getup of scraggly beard, jeans, flannel shirt, boots, and beat-up cowboy hat. Outrageous stories of womanizing, scores of children, and drinking binges created an eclectic image that fueled stories of mythic proportions, along with global sales of his colorful paintings inspired by the Southwest and Mexico. He made millions through his paintings and the licensing of his art for greeting cards and trinkets. Critics called his work kitsch or commercial, yet thousands of admirers continue to love it. Calling De Grazia a complicated man doesn’t begin to explain him. He once described himself as “not saint nor devil, but both.” In this first comprehensive biography of De Grazia, authors James W. Johnson with Marilyn D. Johnson tell the story of a life remarkably lived.
How Fascism Ruled Women
Author: Victoria de GraziaPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520074572
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
"For the common reader as well as the professional one, Victoria de Grazia opens doors and sheds new light on a fascinating subject."—Mary Gordon, author of The Other Side
Girls Lean Back Everywhere
Author: Edward De GraziaPublisher: New York : Random House
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Chronicles the battles fought and won during the twentieth century in behalf of free expression.
A Country With No Name
Author: Sebastian De GraziaPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307789888
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
In an imaginative and masterful work of history, Pulitzer Prize-winner Sebastian de Grazia has created two memorable characters. Nineteen-year-old Oliver Huggins is in for the tutorial of his life. For twelve afternoons, Claire St. John, a beguiling British graduate student, will reveal to him the untold story of American Constitutional history. Her means: the Socratic method. Her message: that the Constitution was itself unconstitutional, and that its authors' inability to choose a name for the republic muddied the document's meaning for the future ahead. Through these "tutorials" de Grazia passes in review our most revered heroes—Jefferson, Washington, Marshall, Lincoln, and Thoreau—revealing the complexity of their characters. St. John's unsettling tales arouse more in her disciple than intellectual curiosity. Their relationship unrolls in so humorous and seductive a way that only a musty academic could object. Satirical, intelligent, and sure-handed, A Country with No Name combines history and literature, politics and law to reinvigorate our best traditions.
'Hamlet' Without Hamlet
Author: Margreta de GraziaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521870259
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
A study tracing the impact and evolution of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
De Grazia and His Mountain, the Superstition
Author: De GraziaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
After years of exploring, researching myths and gold legends of this intriguing mountain, De Grazia brings all the fascination together in this book.