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Visionary Film
The American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2002
Critics hailed previous editions of Visionary Film as the most complete work written on the exciting, often puzzling, and always controversial genre of American avant-garde film. This book has remained the standard text on American avant-garde film since the publication of its first edition in 1974....
Material Dreams
Southern California through the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 1990
Kevin Starr is the foremost chronicler of the California dream and indeed one of the finest narrative historians writing today on any subject. The first two installments of his monumental cultural history, "Americans and the California Dream," have been hailed as "mature, well-proportioned...
Fade In, Crossroads
A History of the Southern Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
How did the US South contribute to the development of film? And how did film shape the modern South? In Fade In, Crossroads, Robert Jackson tells the story of the relationships between southerners and motion pictures from the silent era through the golden age of Hollywood. Jackson reveals the profound...
The American Leonardo
A Tale of Obsession, Art and Money
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009
In 1919 a returning World War I veteran named Harry Hahn and his French bride attempted to sell what they thought was a painting by Leonardo Da Vinci in New York. Renowned art dealer Sir Joseph Duveen declared the picture-La Belle Ferronnière-a fake without ever seeing the canvas. The Hahns sued...
Local Glories
Opera Houses on Main Street, Where Art and Community Meet
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
To most people, the term "opera house" conjures up images of mink-coated dowagers accompanied by tuxedo-clad men in the gilded interiors of opulent buildings like the Met in New York or La Scala in Milan. However, the opera house in the United States has a far more varied-and far more interesting-history...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
The Sounds of the Silents in Britain explores the sonic dimension of film exhibition in Britain from the emergence of cinema to the introduction of synchronized sound. Written by experts on British silent film and film music, the chapters provide an introduction to diverse aspects of early film sound:...
From Head to Hand
Art and the Manual
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
In his third book, Strauss delves into the mysterious process whereby an idea is born in the mind and materialized through the hand in the expression of an artwork. How exactly does this happen? It's a question so basic, an act so fundamental to art-making, that it has rarely received attention. It...
Dancing Revelations
Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2004
In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well-known African American artistic group closely tied to the Civil...
American Painting of the Nineteenth Century
Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2007
In this distinguished work, which Hilton Kramer in The New York Times Book Review called "surely the best book ever written on the subject," Barbara Novak illuminates what is essentially American about American art. She highlights not only those aspects that appear indigenously in our art...
Sifters
Native American Women's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2001
In this edited volume, Theda Perdue, a nationally known expert on Indian history and southern women's history, offers a rich collection of biographical essays on Native American women. From Pocahontas, a Powhatan woman of the seventeenth century, to Ada Deer, the Menominee woman who headed the Bureau...
Citizen Explorer
The Life of Zebulon Pike
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
It was November 1806. The explorers had gone without food for one day, then two. Their leader, not yet thirty, drove on, determined to ascend the great mountain. Waist deep in snow, he reluctantly turned back. But Zebulon Pike had not been defeated. His name remained on the unclimbed peak-and new...
The Face of Britain
A History of the Nation Through Its Portraits
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Author of a number of celebrated works, including the bestselling The Story of the Jews and Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Simon Schama's latest book fuses history and art to create a tour de force of narrative sweep and illuminating insight. Using images from works-paintings, photographs,...
A Thousand Darknesses
Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
What is the difference between writing a novel about the Holocaust and fabricating a memoir? Do narratives about the Holocaust have a special obligation to be 'truthful'--that is, faithful to the facts of history? Or is it okay to lie in such works? In her provocative study A Thousand Darknesses,...
Golden Harvest:Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust
Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
It seems at first commonplace: a group photograph of peasants at harvest time, after hard work well done, resting contentedly with their tools behind the fruits of their labor. But when one finally notices the "crops" scattered in front of the group, what seemed innocent on first view become...