Author: Ruth A. GordonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Publishers and publishing
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Paul Elder
Author: Ruth A. GordonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Publishers and publishing
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
John Henry Nash: the Biography of a Career
Author: Robert D. HarlanPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press
ISBN: 9780520017122
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Bottles of Old Sacramento
Author: Pioneer Photographers of the Far West
Author: Peter E. PalmquistPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804738835
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
This extraordinarily comprehensive, well-documented, biographical dictionary of some 1,500 photographers (and workers engaged in photographically related pursuits) active in western North America before 1865 is enriched by some 250 illustrations. Far from being simply a reference tool, the book provides a rich trove of fascinating narratives that cover both the professional and personal lives of a colorful cast of characters.
Anne Brigman
Author: Kathleen PynePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300249942
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
The life and work of an essential photographer whose feminism and pictorialist images distanced her from the mainstream In the first book devoted to Anne Brigman (1869–1950), Kathleen Pyne traces the groundbreaking photographer’s life from Hawai‘i to the Sierra and elsewhere in California, revealing how her photographs emerged from her experience of local place and cultural politics. Brigman’s work caught the eye of the well-known photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who welcomed her as one of the original members of his Photo-Secession group. He promoted her work as exemplary of his modernism and praised her Sierra landscapes with female nudes—work that at the time separated Brigman from the spiritualized upper-class femininity of other women photographers. Stieglitz later drew on Brigman’s images of the expressive female body in shaping the public persona of Georgia O’Keeffe into his ideal woman artist. This nuanced account reasserts Brigman’s place among photography’s most important early advocates and provides new insight into the gender and racialist dynamics of the early twentieth-century art world, especially on the West Coast of the United States.
University of California Publications in Librarianship
Author: Robert D. HarlanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publications in Librarianship
Author: University of California, BerkeleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library science
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Imperial San Francisco
Author: Judd KahnQuarterly Review of Military Literature
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Rebel Crossings
Author: Sheila RowbothamPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1784785903
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
In a feat of extraordinary archival research Sheila Rowbotham uncovers six little-known women and men whose lives were both dramatic and startlingly radical. Rowbotham tells a story that moves from Bristol, Belfast and Edinburgh to Massachusetts and the wildernesses of California, showing how rebellious ideas were formed and travelled across the Atlantic. Rebel Crossings offers fascinating perspectives on the historical interaction of feminism, socialism, anarchism and on the incipient consciousness of a new sense of self, so vital for women seeking emancipation. Their influences ranged from Unitarianism, High Church Anglicanism, and esoteric spirituality through to Walt Whitman, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, Eleanor Marx, Peter Kropotkin, Benjamin Tucker, and Max Stirner. In differing ways they sought to combine the creation of a co-operative society with personal freedom, enhanced perception and loving friendships, experimenting with free love, rational dress, health diets and deep breathing. A work of significant originality in terms of historical scholarship, this book also speaks to the dilemmas of our own times.