Author: Stephanie Barron
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520337654
Category : Arts, American
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This opulent and expansive volume, published in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's monumental exhibition Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity,1900-2000, charts the dynamic relationship between the arts and popular conceptions of California. Displaying a dazzling array of fine art and material culture, Made in California challenges us to reexamine the ways in which the state has been portrayed and imagined. Unusually inclusive, visually intriguing, and beautifully produced, this volume is a delight throughout--both in image and in text--and will appeal to anyone who has lived in, visited, or imagined California.
Made in California
Author: Stephanie Barron
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520337654
Category : Arts, American
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This opulent and expansive volume, published in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's monumental exhibition Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity,1900-2000, charts the dynamic relationship between the arts and popular conceptions of California. Displaying a dazzling array of fine art and material culture, Made in California challenges us to reexamine the ways in which the state has been portrayed and imagined. Unusually inclusive, visually intriguing, and beautifully produced, this volume is a delight throughout--both in image and in text--and will appeal to anyone who has lived in, visited, or imagined California.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520337654
Category : Arts, American
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This opulent and expansive volume, published in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's monumental exhibition Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity,1900-2000, charts the dynamic relationship between the arts and popular conceptions of California. Displaying a dazzling array of fine art and material culture, Made in California challenges us to reexamine the ways in which the state has been portrayed and imagined. Unusually inclusive, visually intriguing, and beautifully produced, this volume is a delight throughout--both in image and in text--and will appeal to anyone who has lived in, visited, or imagined California.
The Complete Photographer
Author: Tom Ang
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN: 9781465447579
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Create the perfect image across 10 key photographic genres with digital photography expert Tom Ang, in this updated and newly repackaged paperback edition. Tom Ang's The Complete Photographer is your ultimate guide to every style and subject of digital photography, from portraits to wildlife to architecture. Organized by genre and updated to include all the latest technological developments and creative trends, this guide is packed with practical and tailored tutorials, assignments, and advice for each of the 10 categories covered so that you can achieve the results you want -- every time. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the detail that goes into the planning, setting up, and shooting beautiful photos, and learn how an idea progresses from concept to final image with interviews of 20 influential photographers. DK's richly illustrative design and Ang's clear writing and direction blend together in this second edition of The Complete Photographer to dissect the elements of 10 photographic genres and make stunning results achievable.
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN: 9781465447579
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Create the perfect image across 10 key photographic genres with digital photography expert Tom Ang, in this updated and newly repackaged paperback edition. Tom Ang's The Complete Photographer is your ultimate guide to every style and subject of digital photography, from portraits to wildlife to architecture. Organized by genre and updated to include all the latest technological developments and creative trends, this guide is packed with practical and tailored tutorials, assignments, and advice for each of the 10 categories covered so that you can achieve the results you want -- every time. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the detail that goes into the planning, setting up, and shooting beautiful photos, and learn how an idea progresses from concept to final image with interviews of 20 influential photographers. DK's richly illustrative design and Ang's clear writing and direction blend together in this second edition of The Complete Photographer to dissect the elements of 10 photographic genres and make stunning results achievable.
Jewish Eugenics
Author: John Glad
Publisher: Wooden Shore L.L.C.
ISBN: 9780897030052
Category : Eugenics
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Eugenics (human ecology) has always understood itself to be part of the struggle for human rights-- those of future generations. John Glad lays out the eugenic thrust of traditional Jewish culture and shows how Zionism itself was conceived as a grand eugenic plan. --From publisher's description.
Publisher: Wooden Shore L.L.C.
ISBN: 9780897030052
Category : Eugenics
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Eugenics (human ecology) has always understood itself to be part of the struggle for human rights-- those of future generations. John Glad lays out the eugenic thrust of traditional Jewish culture and shows how Zionism itself was conceived as a grand eugenic plan. --From publisher's description.
Polish Folklore and Myth
Author: Alice Wadowski-Bak
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781572160897
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Edited by Joanne Asala, the stories are vividly and dramatically interpreted and portrayed in the paper-cuts (wycinaki) by Alice Wadowski-Bak, noted paper-cut and folkore artist.¶The work of Alice Wadowski-Bak, native of Niagara Falls, New York, is found in private collections and galleries worldwide. The art of wycinanki appeared in Poland in the middle of the 1800s, especially in rural areas where sheep shears were readily available. The method of folding, layering, coloring, and overlay is related to the ancient Chinese art of the block print. Artist Wadowski-Bak explores both wycinanki and oriental stencil cutting. Her origianl designs for this book attest to her exquisite artistry.¶This is a treasure of folk art and lore. A very special gift for personal collections.This book of engaging folk stories includes such tales as "The Violin," "The Headache Cure," "Midsummer's Eve," "The Flower Queen's Daughter," "The Legend of the North Wind," "The Flaming Castle," "The Village Dance," and "The Unfinished Tune."The stories were collected by Joanne Asala, with wycinanki (paper-cutting) illustrations by Polish-American artist Alice Wadowski-Bak.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781572160897
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Edited by Joanne Asala, the stories are vividly and dramatically interpreted and portrayed in the paper-cuts (wycinaki) by Alice Wadowski-Bak, noted paper-cut and folkore artist.¶The work of Alice Wadowski-Bak, native of Niagara Falls, New York, is found in private collections and galleries worldwide. The art of wycinanki appeared in Poland in the middle of the 1800s, especially in rural areas where sheep shears were readily available. The method of folding, layering, coloring, and overlay is related to the ancient Chinese art of the block print. Artist Wadowski-Bak explores both wycinanki and oriental stencil cutting. Her origianl designs for this book attest to her exquisite artistry.¶This is a treasure of folk art and lore. A very special gift for personal collections.This book of engaging folk stories includes such tales as "The Violin," "The Headache Cure," "Midsummer's Eve," "The Flower Queen's Daughter," "The Legend of the North Wind," "The Flaming Castle," "The Village Dance," and "The Unfinished Tune."The stories were collected by Joanne Asala, with wycinanki (paper-cutting) illustrations by Polish-American artist Alice Wadowski-Bak.
Maryland, A Middle Temperament
Author: Robert J. Brugger
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801854651
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Explores the ironies, contradictions, and compromises that give "America's oldest border state"its special character. Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Maryland: A Middle Temperament explores the ironies, contradictions, and compromises that give "America's oldest border state" its special character. Extensively illustrated and accompanied by bibliography, maps, charts, and tables, Robert Brugger's vivid account of the state's political, economic, social, and cultural heritage—from the outfitting of Cecil Calvert's expedition to the opening of Baltimore's Harborplace—is rich in the issues and personalities that make up Maryland's story and explain its "middle temperament."
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801854651
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Explores the ironies, contradictions, and compromises that give "America's oldest border state"its special character. Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Maryland: A Middle Temperament explores the ironies, contradictions, and compromises that give "America's oldest border state" its special character. Extensively illustrated and accompanied by bibliography, maps, charts, and tables, Robert Brugger's vivid account of the state's political, economic, social, and cultural heritage—from the outfitting of Cecil Calvert's expedition to the opening of Baltimore's Harborplace—is rich in the issues and personalities that make up Maryland's story and explain its "middle temperament."
Growing Without Schooling
Author: Patrick Farenga
Publisher: Holtgws LLC
ISBN: 9780985400248
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
After years of working to change schools from within-testifying before Congress and addressing audiences around the world about how to make schools better places for children-John Holt founded Growing Without Schooling magazine in 1977 to support self-directed education and learning outside of school. Each issue is a lively exchange among readers and Holt, packed with useful advice, resource recommendations, and all sorts of legal, pedagogical, and parenting ideas from people who pioneered what we now call homeschooling. John Holt (1983-1985) is the author of How Children Learn and How Children Fail, which together have sold over a million and a half copies, and eight other books about children and learning. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages. Once a leading figure in school reform, John Holt became increasingly interested in how children learn outside of school. The magazine he founded, Growing Without Schooling (GWS), reflects his philosophy, which he called unschooling. GWS was published from 1977 to 2001 and is the first magazine devoted to homeschooling and self-directed education.
Publisher: Holtgws LLC
ISBN: 9780985400248
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
After years of working to change schools from within-testifying before Congress and addressing audiences around the world about how to make schools better places for children-John Holt founded Growing Without Schooling magazine in 1977 to support self-directed education and learning outside of school. Each issue is a lively exchange among readers and Holt, packed with useful advice, resource recommendations, and all sorts of legal, pedagogical, and parenting ideas from people who pioneered what we now call homeschooling. John Holt (1983-1985) is the author of How Children Learn and How Children Fail, which together have sold over a million and a half copies, and eight other books about children and learning. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages. Once a leading figure in school reform, John Holt became increasingly interested in how children learn outside of school. The magazine he founded, Growing Without Schooling (GWS), reflects his philosophy, which he called unschooling. GWS was published from 1977 to 2001 and is the first magazine devoted to homeschooling and self-directed education.
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Blockbusting in Baltimore
Author: W. Edward Orser
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813148316
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This innovative study of racial upheaval and urban transformation in Baltimore, Maryland investigates the impact of "blockbusting"—a practice in which real estate agents would sell a house on an all-white block to an African American family with the aim of igniting a panic among the other residents. These homeowners would often sell at a loss to move away, and the real estate agents would promote the properties at a drastic markup to African American buyers. In this groundbreaking book, W. Edward Orser examines Edmondson Village, a west Baltimore rowhouse community where an especially acute instance of blockbusting triggered white flight and racial change on a dramatic scale. Between 1955 and 1965, nearly twenty thousand white residents, who saw their secure world changing drastically, were replaced by blacks in search of the American dream. By buying low and selling high, playing on the fears of whites and the needs of African Americans, blockbusters set off a series of events that Orser calls "a collective trauma whose significance for recent American social and cultural history is still insufficiently appreciated and understood." Blockbusting in Baltimore describes a widely experienced but little analyzed phenomenon of recent social history. Orser makes an important contribution to community and urban studies, race relations, and records of the African American experience.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813148316
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This innovative study of racial upheaval and urban transformation in Baltimore, Maryland investigates the impact of "blockbusting"—a practice in which real estate agents would sell a house on an all-white block to an African American family with the aim of igniting a panic among the other residents. These homeowners would often sell at a loss to move away, and the real estate agents would promote the properties at a drastic markup to African American buyers. In this groundbreaking book, W. Edward Orser examines Edmondson Village, a west Baltimore rowhouse community where an especially acute instance of blockbusting triggered white flight and racial change on a dramatic scale. Between 1955 and 1965, nearly twenty thousand white residents, who saw their secure world changing drastically, were replaced by blacks in search of the American dream. By buying low and selling high, playing on the fears of whites and the needs of African Americans, blockbusters set off a series of events that Orser calls "a collective trauma whose significance for recent American social and cultural history is still insufficiently appreciated and understood." Blockbusting in Baltimore describes a widely experienced but little analyzed phenomenon of recent social history. Orser makes an important contribution to community and urban studies, race relations, and records of the African American experience.
The Life of Benjamin Banneker
Author: Silvio A. Bedini
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The biography of the great black American scientist and abolitionist who wrote an almanac and helped survey Washington.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The biography of the great black American scientist and abolitionist who wrote an almanac and helped survey Washington.
The Anti-ballistic Missile System
Author: Richard Milhous Nixon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description