A Creative Place: the History of Wisconsin Art
Title | A Creative Place: the History of Wisconsin Art PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Lidtke |
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Release | 2021-12 |
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ISBN | 9780578962627 |
Survey of Wisconsin art and artists covering the period 11000 BCE through the year 2000. Book includes 7 thoroughly researched chapters and more than 500 images that chronicle Wisconsin's most influential art and artists.
Exhibition of Wisconsin Art
Title | Exhibition of Wisconsin Art PDF eBook |
Author | Wisconsin painters and sculptors, Milwaukee |
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Genre | Art, U.S. |
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Association of Wisconsin Artists Presents
Title | Association of Wisconsin Artists Presents PDF eBook |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-09-20 |
Genre | Art |
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2024 Wisconsin Regional Art Program's Annual Statewide Art Exhibition
Wisconsin Painters & Sculptors, Wisconsin Artists in All Media
Title | Wisconsin Painters & Sculptors, Wisconsin Artists in All Media PDF eBook |
Author | West Bend Art Museum (West Bend, Wis.) |
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Pages | 29 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Art |
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Inspiring Beauty
Title | Inspiring Beauty PDF eBook |
Author | Chicago History Museum |
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Pages | 140 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN | 9780913820377 |
The Ebony Fashion Fair began in 1958, and over the next 50 years the traveling fashion show blossomed into an American institution that raised millions for charity and helped Johnson Publishing Company reach audiences. Show organizers overcame racial prejudice to bring the pinnacle of Europe's premier fashion to communities that were eager to see, in real time and space, a new vision of black America that was the hallmark of Ebony and Jet magazines. Eunice Johnson took over as producer and director in 1963, and under her direction, the traveling show took on new heights as she expanded her cachet and power within fashion circles. Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair recreates the experience of the Ebony Fashion Fair through the story of Mrs. Johnson and more than 60 garments from icons of the fashion industry such as Yves St. Laurent, Oscar de la Renta, Pierre Cardin, Emanuel Ungaro, Christian Lacroix, and Patrick Kelly among others.
American Fancy
Title | American Fancy PDF eBook |
Author | Sumpter T. Priddy |
Publisher | Chipstone Foundation/Milwaukee Art Museum |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Decorative arts |
ISBN | 9780972435390 |
Between 1790 and 1840, millions of middle-class Americans throughout the nation encountered "Fancy": they rode in a Fancy sleigh, dressed up in Fancy clothes, blew their noses in Fancy handkerchiefs, bought goods at Fancy shops, ate at Fancy tables on Fancy dishes, and slept under Fancy coverlets. Not just fancy but Fancy: an early nineteenth-century cultural phenomenon born out of new and enlightened ways of seeing, understanding, and responding to the surrounding world. Fancy expressed itself in just about everything that pleased the senses; generally colorful and boldly patterned, it elicited delight, awe, surprise, whim, and caprice. Whether experienced in the form of painted surfaces, kaleidoscopic quilts, or imaginary landscapes, Fancy engaged the emotions and expanded the imagination, expressing the core of human fancy. "American Fancy" offers an appropriately fantastic experience of this uniquely American sensibility. Author Sumpter Priddy has assembled and produced an original oeuvre in the field of decorative arts, going beyond the traditional modes of furniture analysis, which concentrate on style, history, and construction, to consider the perceptual and emotional responses through which the original users and viewers would have interacted with these material things. To this end he employs the interpretive methods used in the fields of literature, fine arts, philosophy and even psychology. Rich, fully illustrated, wondrously researched, and bound in a cover that imitates a typical Fancy pattern, "American Fancy" does its marvelous subject true.
Wisconsin in Watercolor
Title | Wisconsin in Watercolor PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Kapler |
Publisher | Wisconsin Historical Society |
Pages | 137 |
Release | 2018-10-10 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0870208926 |
In 1867, German immigrant Paul Seifert settled in the Driftless Area of southwestern Wisconsin and began capturing the distinctive farms and landscapes of his new home in vivid, detailed watercolors. Today, these paintings are coveted by American folk art collectors across the country, but Seifert’s life remains shrouded in mystery. In this first book written about Paul Seifert, author Joe Kapler examines the life of this enigmatic artist and provides context for his extraordinary art. The book features high-quality reproductions of twenty-two Seifert watercolors (more than half of which have never been published) and many close-ups of his characteristic details, from horses and hay wagons to dogs and dinner bells. Part art history treatment, part coffee table book, part research memoir, and part love letter to the Driftless Area, Wisconsin in Watercolor shines a long-awaited light on Seifert and the land he so carefully rendered over a hundred years ago.