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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Minutes of the Meeting of February 15-16, 1940
Author: Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2868
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
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Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2636
Book Description
Minutes of the Meeting
Author: Edison Electric Institute. Transmission and Distribution CommitteePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
Author: Mari Carmen RamirezPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300187157
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
Book Description
DIV This first volume of the Critical Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art series published by the International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents 168 crucial texts written by influential artists, critics, curators, journalists, and intellectuals whose writings shed light on questions relating to what it means to be "Latin American" and/or "Latino." Reinforced within a critical framework, the documents address converging issues, including: the construct of "Latin-ness" itself; the persistent longing for a continental identity; notions of Pan–Latin Americanism; the emergence of collections and exhibitions devoted specifically to "Latin American” or "Latino" art; and multicultural critiques of Latin American and Latino essentialism. The selected documents, many of which have never before been published in English, span from the late fifteenth century to the present day. They encompass key protagonists of this comprehensive history as well as unfamiliar figures, revealing previously unknown facets of the questions and issues at play. The book series complements the thousands of seminal documents now available through the ICAA Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art digital archive, http://icaadocs.mfah.org. Together they establish a much-needed intellectual foundation for the exhibition, collection, and interpretation of art produced in Latin America and among Latino populations in the United States. /div
Improvised Continent
Author: Richard Cándida SmithPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812294653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
How does a country in the process of becoming a world power prepare its citizens for the responsibilities of global leadership? In Improvised Continent, Richard Cándida Smith answers this question by illuminating the forgotten story of how, over the course of the twentieth century, cultural exchange programs, some run by the government and others by philanthropies and major cultural institutions, brought many of the most important artists and writers of Latin America to live and work in the United States. Improvised Continent is the first book to focus on cultural exchange inside the United States and how Americans responded to Latin American writers and artists. Moving masterfully between the history of ideas, biography, institutional history and politics, and international relations, and engaging works in French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, Cándida Smith synthesizes over seventy years of Pan-American cultural activity in the United States. The stories behind Diego Rivera's murals, the movies of Alejandro G. Iñárritu, the poetry of Gabriela Mistral, the photography of Genevieve Naylor, and the novels of Carlos Fuentes—these works and artists, along with many others, challenged U.S. citizens about their place in the world and about the kind of global relations the country's interests could allow. Improvised Continent provides a profoundly compassionate portrayal of the Latin American artists and writers who believed their practices might create a more humane world.
Telfair Museum of Art
Author: Telfair Museum of ArtPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780933075047
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The fascinating history of the Telfair, featuring 114 representative pieces of fine and decorative art from its vast collection, all superbly reproduced and thoroughly annotated.
December 8, 1941
Author: William H. BartschPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603447415
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
Ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, “another Pearl Harbor” of even more devastating consequence for American arms occurred in the Philippines, 4,500 miles to the west. On December 8, 1941, at 12.35 p.m., 196 Japanese Navy bombers and fighters crippled the largest force of B-17 four-engine bombers outside the United States and also decimated their protective P-40 interceptors. The sudden blow allowed the Japanese to rule the skies over the Philippines, removing the only effective barrier that stood between them and their conquest of Southeast Asia. This event has been called “one of the blackest days in American military history.” How could the army commander in the Philippines—the renowned Lt. Gen. Douglas MacArthur—have been caught with all his planes on the ground when he had been alerted in the small hours of that morning of the Pearl Harbor attack and warned of the likelihood of a Japanese strike on his forces? In this book, author William H. Bartsch attempts to answer this and other related questions. Bartsch draws upon twenty-five years of research into American and Japanese records and interviews with many of the participants themselves, particularly survivors of the actual attack on Clark and Iba air bases. The dramatic and detailed coverage of the attack is preceded by an account of the hurried American build-up of air power in the Philippines after July, 1941, and of Japanese planning and preparations for this opening assault of its Southern Operations. Bartsch juxtaposes the experiences of staff of the U.S. War Department in Washington and its Far East Air Force bomber, fighter, and radar personnel in the Philippines, who were affected by its decisions, with those of Japan’s Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo and the 11th Air Fleet staff and pilots on Formosa, who were assigned the responsibility for carrying out the attack on the Philippines five hundred miles to the south. In order to put the December 8th attack in broader context, Bartsch details micro-level personal experiences and presents the political and strategic aspects of American and Japanese planning for a war in the Pacific. Despite the significance of this subject matter, it has never before been given full book-length treatment. This book represents the culmination of decades-long efforts of the author to fill this historical gap.
Index-catalogue of the Library ...
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, National Library of Medicine
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
"Collection of incunabula and early medical prints in the library of the Surgeon-general's office, U.S. Army": Ser. 3, v. 10, p. 1415-1436.