One Hundred Years ... 1839-1939
Title | One Hundred Years ... 1839-1939 PDF eBook |
Author | Fort Plain, N.Y. National bank |
Publisher | |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 1939 |
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David Griffiths and the Missionary "History of Madagascar"
Title | David Griffiths and the Missionary "History of Madagascar" PDF eBook |
Author | Gwyn Campbell |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 1202 |
Release | 2012-04-03 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004195181 |
In 1838, William Ellis of the LMS published a History of Madagascar―considered a key primary source for nineteenth-century Malagasy history. Four years later, David Griffiths, longest serving member of the Madagascar Mission, published Hanes Madagascar (“History of Madagascar”) in Welsh. Campbell’s study explores the intriguing relationship between these works and their authors. It analyses the role of Griffiths; presents evidence that much of Ellis’ History derived from Griffiths’ research; and presents the first ever translation of Hanes Madagascar (with extensive annotations). This study suggests that the tensions arising from the different cultural perceptions of Welsh and English missionaries moulded the destiny of the Madagascar mission. It will hopefully inspire re-evaluation of other missions and their relationship to British imperial policy.
Writings on British History
Title | Writings on British History PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 1953 |
Genre | Great Britain |
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One Hundred Year Cenurial 1839-1939
Title | One Hundred Year Cenurial 1839-1939 PDF eBook |
Author | Rose Pell |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1939 |
Genre | History |
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Objects in Exile
Title | Objects in Exile PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Schuldenfrei |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2024-01-23 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0691254958 |
An essential examination of how emigration and resettlement defined modernism In the fraught years leading up to World War II, many modern artists and architects emigrated from continental Europe to the United States and Britain. The experience of exile infused their modernist ideas with new urgency and forced them to use certain materials in place of others, modify existing works, and reconsider their approach to design itself. In Objects in Exile, Robin Schuldenfrei reveals how the process of migration was crucial to the development of modernism, charting how modern art and architecture was shaped by the need to constantly face—and transcend—the materiality of things. Taking readers from the prewar era to the 1960s, Schuldenfrei explores the objects these émigrés brought with them, what they left behind, and the new works they completed in exile. She argues that modernism could only coalesce with the abandonment of national borders in a process of emigration and resettlement, and brings to life the vibrant postwar period when avant-garde ideas came together and emerged as mainstream modernism. Examining works by Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, Herbert Bayer, Anni and Josef Albers, and others, Schuldenfrei demonstrates the social impact of art objects produced in exile. Shedding critical light on how the pressures of dislocation irrevocably altered the course of modernism, Objects in Exile shows how artists and designers, forced into exile by circumstances beyond their control, changed in unexpected ways to meet the needs and contexts of an uncertain world.
Carleton Watkins
Title | Carleton Watkins PDF eBook |
Author | Carleton E. Watkins |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 606 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 1606060058 |
This is an opulently illustrated catalogue of the entire remaining mammoth photographs of Carleton Watkins (1829-1916). The work will contribute not only to a fuller understanding of this pioneering photographer but also portray the barely explored frontier in its final moments of pristine beauty.
History of One Hundred Years, 1839-1939
Title | History of One Hundred Years, 1839-1939 PDF eBook |
Author | William E. Moore |
Publisher | |
Pages | 126 |
Release | 1939 |
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