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Author: Peter M. Kenny Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art ISBN: 1588394425 Category : Cabinetmakers Languages : en Pages : 314
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"Duncan Phyfe (1770-1854), known during his lifetime as the "United States Rage," to this day remains America's best-known cabinetmaker. Establishing his reputation as a purveyor of luxury by designing high-quality furniture for New York's moneyed elite, Phyfe would come to count among his clients some of the nation's wealthiest and most storied families. This richly illustrated volume covers the full chronological sweep of the craftsman's distinguished career, from his earliest furniture-- which bears the influence of his 18th-century British predecessors Thomas Sheraton and Thomas Hope--to his late simplified designs in the Grecian Plain. More than sixty works by Phyfe and his workshop are highlighted, including rarely seen pieces from private collections and several newly discovered documented works. Additionally, essays by leading scholars bring to light new information on Phyfe's life, his workshop production, and his roster of illustrious patrons. What unfolds is the story of Phyfe's remarkable transformation from a young immigrant craftsman to an accomplished master cabinetmaker and an American icon."--Publisher's website.
Author: Peter M. Kenny Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art ISBN: 1588394425 Category : Cabinetmakers Languages : en Pages : 314
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"Duncan Phyfe (1770-1854), known during his lifetime as the "United States Rage," to this day remains America's best-known cabinetmaker. Establishing his reputation as a purveyor of luxury by designing high-quality furniture for New York's moneyed elite, Phyfe would come to count among his clients some of the nation's wealthiest and most storied families. This richly illustrated volume covers the full chronological sweep of the craftsman's distinguished career, from his earliest furniture-- which bears the influence of his 18th-century British predecessors Thomas Sheraton and Thomas Hope--to his late simplified designs in the Grecian Plain. More than sixty works by Phyfe and his workshop are highlighted, including rarely seen pieces from private collections and several newly discovered documented works. Additionally, essays by leading scholars bring to light new information on Phyfe's life, his workshop production, and his roster of illustrious patrons. What unfolds is the story of Phyfe's remarkable transformation from a young immigrant craftsman to an accomplished master cabinetmaker and an American icon."--Publisher's website.
Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.) Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 454
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The energy and optimism of the new nation are abundantly apparent in this catalogue. It features some of the icons of American art, such as John Singleton Copley's The Copley Family and Gilbert Stuart's portraits of the first five presidents. Numerous paintings, including Benjamin West's Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill), are discussed from a new perspective, the result of information culled from letters, wills, and other previously unpublished documents. The author offers new interpretations of some works, among them Charles Willson Peale's portrait of the Baltimore couple Benjamin and Eleanor Ridgely Laming. The volume is richly illustrated, with carefully selected comparative illustrations.
Author: AFFAN ALI Publisher: Ink zone publication ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 55
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Starting as a noob and having a dream to become pro………………………. So from the title of my blog you all can guess that this is my first blog and I'm have no experience in writing blogs but I do want to share something with all of you that when I was in 9th standard there was a teacher of English and he was very expert in failing students most of the time 90% of the students were failed in his subject . It's not just that the children don't have skills or they write everything wrong in the answer book but the teacher used to point out silly mistakes and just mark failure . Sometimes we used to get only 1/2 marks in 5 marks questions .It was new for all of us because we used to get 90% at-least till 8th grade . suddenly the declination in marks makes all of our classmates very upset some of us started skipping his class .Most of us started making fun of him like we use to copy his walking style some time we use to still his books that he carries with him always also some of our teacher don't like him and they said he is nothing without his bag . Although we all were very frustrated because of his gesture that he used to have . His teaching technique was very unique and he never used white board during my whole period of study. He never used any marker to explain anything on board . He was the first teacher I ever knew who never used markers . He used to dictate when he wanted us to write something .Sometimes we asked for a word again but Never repeated the word . In the whole period of time he never told us how to do problems , we have to do things on our own and then we got wrong most of the time and he just put a cross and left the solution to do it again on our own. This was ridiculous that time we somehow by practicing we got that question correct. We also have to read the fiction and tell its meaning to class from 4/5 students he use to choose the correct explanation of the stanza it was quite fun because the student whose explanation is wrong was not allowed to sit till the class end but rule for girls were different he allow them to sit after a while. After all his cruelty we somehow started liking him because the gap between the toppers and backbenchers was no more, everyone
Author: Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 9780820315355 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 260
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A Southern Collection presents select masterworks from the permanent collection of the Morris Museum of Art on the occasion of the institution's inaugural exhibition. Drawn from a comprehensive survey collection of painting in the South from the late eighteenth century to the present day, the museum's opening exhibit explores an artistic terrain as rich and diverse as the South itself, arranged in categories that reflect critical chronological developments in the art world. A survey of painting activity in the South begins with the travels of itinerant portrait artists working prior to the Civil War. At the same time, landscape painting encompasses a sensitive response to the swamps, bayous and fertile fields of the South. Late in the nineteenth century strong and vivid genre painting competes with the nostalgic effects realized by Southern impressionists, whose shimmering, liquid images are invested with an elusive spirit of place. In this century, those strains of realism and naturalism that characterize the classic body of Southern writing appear in the representational art of painters who defied the modern abstract dictum. And finally, the exciting, compelling works of a current generation of both self-taught artists and sophisticated contemporary painters complete this fascinating, though sometimes neglected, chapter in American art history.
Author: Stephen Wildman Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art ISBN: 0870998587 Category : Arts and crafts movement Languages : en Pages : 375
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This publication is issued in conjunction with the 1998 exhibition of the same name held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and scheduled for venues in England and France. Burnes-Jones (1833-1898) created a style that had widespread influence on both British and European art--a narrative style derived from medieval legend and fused with the influence of Italian Renaissance masters, a style that ceded popularity to a growing taste for abstraction at the end of the 19th century. Now Burne-Jones's star has risen again, and this catalogue contains full discussion of his life and work and representation of his prodigious output of drawings and paintings. 9.5x12.5"Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Michel Beurdeley Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications ISBN: 9780847807376 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 315
Author: Joanne King Herring Publisher: Center Street ISBN: 159995382X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 316
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She's been dirt poor; she's been filthy rich. Rich was more fun. She married three times, divorced twice, found her true love, and lost him to cancer. At twenty-one, she was told she would soon die. She lived. Doctors said she'd never be able to have children. She had 'em. She's bargained with God, dictators, and Democrats. She's partied with princes, presidents, premiers, Barbara Walters, Anwar Sadat, Margaret Thatcher, Tom Hanks, and Francisco Franco . . . though not all at the same time. She captivated powerful men with her feminine charm, and then persuaded them toward unlikely political alliances through her formidable intelligence. She waltzed with Prince Philip in Buckingham Palace, dressed in men's clothes and smuggled herself in a barrel across the Pakistani border, threw a Roman-themed party so extravagant it was featured in Life magazine, and survived a Soviet gunship attack in the mountains of Afghanistan. Joanne Herring, the Houston socialite portrayed by Julia Roberts in the film Charlie Wilson's War, is far more colorful, funny, and likable than any screenwriter could have guessed. The former Texas television anchor is known for her improbable fight with the mujahideen against the former Soviet Union. But her full story-with all its God, guns, and Gucci glory-has never been told. Born in the man's world of Texas in a time when women had limited choices, Joanne Herring blazed a trail with allies as unlikely as Charlie Wilson, Pierre Cardin, and President Ronald Reagan . . . and in so doing forged new paths for women in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and America.
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