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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Photographs of Interpreters
Author: John MiltonPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1036406555
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
This book rescues photographs of interpreters: from the 19th century, French diplomat and sinologist, Arnold Vissière, and Julius Meyer, a Jewish trader in Wyoming and interpreter for native American groups; John Brown, the African-American who interpreted for travellers to the Putamayo region in Peru, witness of the mistreatment of indigenous rubber extractors in the “Devil’s Paradise”; Viktor Sukhodrev, Russian diplomatic interpreter, whom Richard Nixon trusted more than his own White House staff. From Brazil there are the boy interpreters from the Xetá indigenous group; Euvaldo Gomes making the first contact with the Xavante in 1949, after the participants in previous attempts were killed; the first communication with the Korubo in the Amazon in 1996; the familiar figures of Raoni and his interpreter, Megaron; and General Vernon Walters, the American military attaché and linguist, a key actor in the 1964 military coup. Photographs are analyzed as a formal visual composition; a performance; an act of interpreting, a moment in history that expresses geopolitical and economic power, social habits, and fashions; and salvaging lives lost in the sea of history.
The National Union Catalogs, 1963-
Author: Women Artists of the American West
Author: Susan R. ResslerPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786410545
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Profiles more than 150 women artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from the American West, offers fifteen interpretive essays, and includes nearly three hundred reproductions of their works.
The Desert is No Lady
Author: Vera NorwoodPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816516490
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Over the past century, women artists and writers have expressed diverse creative responses to the landscape of the Southwest. The Desert Is No Lady provides a cross-cultureal perspective on women by examining Anglo, Hispanic, and Native American women's artistic expressions and the effect of their art in defining the southwestern landscape. The Desert Is No Lady has been made into a motion picture of the same title by Women Make movies, New York, NY "A beautifully crafted book. . . . Although it varies in intensity, the response of women to the environment is virtually always different from the male frontiersman's view of the land as inanimate, boundless, conquerable and controllable." ÑPolly Wells Kaufman in Women's Review of Books "A powerful masterpiece." ÑEve Gruntfest in The Professional Geographer
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Fodor's Essential USA
Author: Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. StaffPublisher: Fodor
ISBN: 0307480585
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Provides information on traveling in and around the United States, including lodgings, restaurants, attractions, shopping, culture, and nightlife.
American Book Publishing Record
Author: Eliot Porter
Author: Eliot PorterPublisher:
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Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
"Eliot Porter: The Color of Wildness" is the first in-depth retrospective of Porter's work. Over the course of his long career, Porter has photographed familiar landscapes, like the coast of Maine where he spent childhood summers, as well as well as strange, remote places like the Galapagos Islands. With the success of his Sierra Club publication "In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World, Selections and Photographs by Eliot Porter" (1962), Porter became an ambassador for environmental causes. His ecological interests led to a fascination with humanity's cultural roots. An essay by curator John Rohrbach addresses Porter's break with the classical techniques of the master Modernists Paul Strand and Ansel Adams. An essay by Porter's son Jonathan, who often accompanied his father on photographic expeditions, discusses Porter's lifelong love of the natural world, his working methods, and his interests outside of photography. Rebecca Solnit's essay positions Porter's work within the environmental movement and the political climate of the 1960s. " Porter's images] ... are secure in the history of the medium and contribute to the highest standards and achievements of the art." --Ansel Adams
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