Author: Maine Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The Maine Collection
Author: Portland Museum of ArtPublisher: Wimmer Cookbooks
ISBN: 9780963538604
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Captures the details of the McLellan-Sweat House, which houses the Portland Museum of Art. Divider pages reflect the dedication to preserving this well-known landmark. Benefits restoration of the McLellan-Sweat House.
Maine Photography
Author: Libby BischofPublisher: Down East Books
ISBN: 1493082752
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Maine has always played a rich and varied role in the art of photography. For hundreds of years, photographers, like other artists, have made their way to Maine to capture the natural beauty and human culture of the state. So, too, have many photographers come from Maine, and many contributions by Mainers have been made to the medium. Maine in Photography is the first comprehensive overview of the history of photography in the state. Providing basic knowledge of the most important people and institutions to have promoted photography, this volume also studies the ways in which photography has informed the understanding of the social and cultural history of Maine. Beginning with the earliest daguerreotype portraits of the 1840s, this history traces the growth of the medium—emphasizing key contributions, such as the Stanley brothers’ invention of the dry plate process—through to the present. Key topics addressed throughout the book include the importance of photography in documenting labor and economic life, the close relationship between photography and the growth of tourism, and the role of Maine photographers in advancing the medium as a fine art form. Published in conjunction with the Maine Photo Project, this is a unique and timely addition to the body of work on the importance of Maine to American art.
The Maine Bookstore Book
Author: Carole MarshPublisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793329132
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Subject Collections
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
A guide to special book collections and subject emphases as reported by university, college, public, and special libraries and museums in the United States and Canada.
Collections
Author: Old Colony Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bristol County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
A Forgotten Landscape: How A Place Called Crockett's Corner Became The Maine Mall
Author: M.M. Drymon PhDPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387421506
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
A place called Crockett's Corner began as a seventeenth century colonial settlement that grew into a stable and sustainable nineteenth century American agrarian landscape. During thetwentieth century, in a rapid but staged process, the landscape was changed into an edge city. These changes were the direct result, especially after 1938, of prevailing public policies which acted to constrain some land uses while supporting others.Landscape change has had unintended consequences, including local social network destruction,historic building demolition, and unmitigated air and non-point source water pollution. Raising awareness of the deep history of this place may help empower advocates for historic preservation, open space, environmental protection and more sustainable land use practices in the future.
Marsden Hartley's Maine
Author: Donna M. CassidyPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588396134
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Marsden Hartley had a lifelong personal and aesthetic engagement with Maine, where he was born in 1877 and where he died at age sixty-six. As an important member of the artistic circle promoted by Alfred Stieglitz, Hartley began his career by painting the mountains of western Maine. He subsequently led a peripatetic life, traveling throughout Europe and North America and only occasionally visiting his native state. By midlife, however, his itinerant existence had taken an emotional toll, and he confided to Stieglitz that he wanted “so earnestly a ‘place’ to be.” Finally returning to the state in his later years, he transformed his identity from urbane sophisticate to “the painter from Maine.” But while Maine has played a clear and defining role in Hartley’s art, not until now has this relationship been studied with the breadth and richness it warrants. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana} Marsden Hartley’s Maine is the first in-depth discussion of Hartley’s complex and shifting relationship to his native state. Illustrated with works from throughout the painter’s career, it provides a nuanced understanding of Hartley’s artistic range, from the exhilarating Post-Impressionist landscapes of his early years to the late, roughly rendered paintings of Maine and its people. The absorbing essays examine Hartley’s view of Maine as a place of light and darkness whose spirit imbued his art, which encompassed buoyant coastal views, mournful mountain vistas, and portraits of Mainers. An illustrated chronology provides an overview of Hartley’s life, juxtaposing major personal incidents with concurrent events in Maine’s history. For Hartley, who was strongly influenced by such artists as Paul Cézanne, Winslow Homer, and Albert Pinkham Ryder, Maine was an enduring source of inspiration, one powerfully intertwined with his past, his cultural milieu, and his desire to create a regional expression of American modernism.
The Shipley Collection of Scientific Papers
Author: Papers and Proceedings
Author: American Library Association. ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library science
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
Author: