Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368733575
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1848.
Proceedings of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1848
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368733575
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1848.
Proceedings of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1849
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368733583
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1849.
Proceedings of the New York Historical Society
Author: New-York Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Proceedings of the New York Historical Society (1848)
Author: New York Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781429737722
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Proof-sheets of a Bibliography of the Languages of the North American Indians
Author: James Constantine PillingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
Book Description
Matthew Fontaine Maury, Father of Oceanography
Author: John GradyPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476618089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
In becoming "a useful man" on the maritime stage, Matthew Fontaine Maury focused on the ills of a clique-ridden Navy, charted sea lanes and bested Great Britain's admiralty in securing the fastest, safest routes to India and Australia. He helped bind the Old and New worlds with the laying of the transatlantic cable, forcefully advocated Southern rights in a troubled union, and preached Manifest Destiny from the Arctic to Cape Horn. And he revolutionized warfare in perfecting electronically detonated mines. Maury's eagerness to go to the public on the questions of the day riled powerful men in business and politics, and the U.S., Confederate and Royal navies. He more than once ran afoul of Jefferson Davis and Stephen R. Mallory, secretary of the Confederate States Navy. But through the political, social and scientific struggles of his time, Maury had his share of powerful allies, like President John Tyler.
The American Art-Union
Author: Kimberly A. OrcuttPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 1531507018
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
The first comprehensive treatment in seventy years of the American Art-Union’s remarkable rise and fall For over a decade, the New York–based American Art-Union shaped art creation, display, and patronage nationwide. Boasting as many as 19,000 members from almost every state, its meteoric rise and its sudden and spectacular collapse still raise a crucial question: Why did such a successful and influential institution fail? The American Art-Union reveals a sprawling and fascinating account of the country’s first nationwide artistic phenomenon, creating a shared experience of visual culture, art news and criticism, and a direct experience with original works. For an annual fee of five dollars, members of the American Art-Union received an engraving after a painting by a notable US artist and the annual publication Transactions (1839–49) and later the monthly Bulletin (1848–53). Most importantly, members’ names were entered in a drawing for hundreds of original paintings and sculptures by most of the era’s best-known artists. Those artworks were displayed in its immensely popular Free Gallery. Unfortunately, the experiment was short-lived. Opposition grew, and a cascade of events led to an 1852 court case that proved to be the Art-Union’s downfall. Illuminating the workings of the American art market, this study fills a gaping lacuna in the history of nineteenth-century US art. Kimberly A. Orcutt draws from the American Art-Union’s records as well as in-depth contextual research to track the organization’s decisive impact that set the direction of the country’s paintings, sculpture, and engravings for well over a decade. Forged in cultural crosscurrents of utopianism and skepticism, the American Art-Union’s demise can be traced to its nature as an attempt to create and control the complex system that the early nineteenth-century art world represented. This study breaks the organization’s activities into their major components to offer a structural rather than chronological narrative that follows mounting tensions to their inevitable end. The institution was undone not by dramatic outward events or the character of its leadership but by the character of its utopianist plan.
Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College with Annals of the College History: May 1763-July 1778
Author: Franklin Bowditch DexterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College
Author: Franklin Bowditch DexterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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