Author: Society for the Preservation of New England AntiquitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Old-time New England
Author: Society for the Preservation of New England AntiquitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The Pine Furniture of Early New England
Author: Russell H. KettellPublisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486201457
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
Working plans and drawings for the amateur carpenter are included in this guide to the pine furniture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
American Rococo, 1750-1775
Author: Morrison H. HeckscherPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870996312
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by, and held at, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, this volume examines the American (i.e. British colonial) manifestations of the European rococo style. Following an introductory chapter, separate chapters are devoted to architecture, engravings, silver, and furniture, plus iron, glass, and porcelain grouped together as factory products. Illustrated are 173 objects (many in color) that are part of the exhibition, and some 50 related objects. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Bulletin
Author: United States National MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Technology in Early America
Author: Brooke HindlePublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807838640
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
This interpretative essay and extensive bibliography surveying the chronology and major characteristics of American technology before 1850 is the first available guide in this period to the rapidly developing field of the history of technology. Originally published in 1966. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
American Painters on Technique
Author: Lance MayerPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606060775
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A study of an important but anonymous part of the history of American art: the materials and techniques used by American painters. Based on research including artists' recipe books, letters, journals, and painting manuals, it includes topics such as the quest for the 'secrets' of the Old Masters; the application of 'toning' layers; and more.
The Cultural Life of the American Colonies
Author: Louis B. WrightPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486136604
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Sweeping survey of 150 years of colonial history (1607–1763) offers authoritative views on agrarian society and leadership, non-English influences, religion, education, literature, music, architecture, and much more. 33 black-and-white illustrations.
The History of the Organ in the United States
Author: Orpha OchsePublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253204950
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Immigration, wars, industrial growth, the availability of electricity, the popularity of orchestral music, and the invention of the phonograph and of the player piano all had a part in determining the course of American organ history.
A History of the Book in America: Volume 1, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World
Author: Hugh AmoryPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521482561
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Volume 1 of A History of the Book in America, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, encompasses the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is organized around three major themes: the persisting colonial relationship between European settlements and the Old World; the gradual emergence of a pluralistic book trade that differentiated printers from booksellers; and the transition from a 'culture of the Word', organized around an understanding of print as a vehicle of the sacred, to the culture of republicanism, epitomized by Benjamin Franklin, and culminating in the uses of print during the Revolutionary era. The volume will also describe nascent forms of literary and learned culture (including the circulation of manuscripts), literacy and censorship, orality, and the efforts by Europeans to introduce written literary to Native Americans and African Americans.
Journals and Journeymen
Author: Clarence S. BrighamPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512814784
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.