Dox Thrash
Title | Dox Thrash PDF eBook |
Author | John W. Ittmann |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780295981598 |
An exhibition catalog presenting all 188 prints artist Dox Thrash is known to have made showcases his use of the carborundum process and his mastery of various other methods of printmaking such as etching, aquatint, lithography, and woodcut.
The Crisis
Title | The Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 1940-12 |
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The Crisis, founded by W.E.B. Du Bois as the official publication of the NAACP, is a journal of civil rights, history, politics, and culture and seeks to educate and challenge its readers about issues that continue to plague African Americans and other communities of color. For nearly 100 years, The Crisis has been the magazine of opinion and thought leaders, decision makers, peacemakers and justice seekers. It has chronicled, informed, educated, entertained and, in many instances, set the economic, political and social agenda for our nation and its multi-ethnic citizens.
A Site of Struggle
Title | A Site of Struggle PDF eBook |
Author | Sampada Aranke |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 137 |
Release | 2022-04-26 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0691209278 |
Examines the vast array of art produced by African Americans in response to the continuing impact of anti-Black violence and how it is used to protest, process, mourn and memorialize those events.
Historic Real Estate
Title | Historic Real Estate PDF eBook |
Author | Whitney Martinko |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2020-05-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0812296990 |
A detailed study of early historical preservation efforts between the 1780s and the 1850s In Historic Real Estate, Whitney Martinko shows how Americans in the fledgling United States pointed to evidence of the past in the world around them and debated whether, and how, to preserve historic structures as permanent features of the new nation's landscape. From Indigenous mounds in the Ohio Valley to Independence Hall in Philadelphia; from Benjamin Franklin's childhood home in Boston to St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina; from Dutch colonial manors of the Hudson Valley to Henry Clay's Kentucky estate, early advocates of preservation strove not only to place boundaries on competitive real estate markets but also to determine what should not be for sale, how consumers should behave, and how certain types of labor should be valued. Before historic preservation existed as we know it today, many Americans articulated eclectic and sometimes contradictory definitions of architectural preservation to work out practical strategies for defining the relationship between public good and private profit. In arguing for the preservation of houses of worship and Indigenous earthworks, for example, some invoked the "public interest" of their stewards to strengthen corporate control of these collective spaces. Meanwhile, businessmen and political partisans adopted preservation of commercial sites to create opportunities for, and limits on, individual profit in a growing marketplace of goods. And owners of old houses and ancestral estates developed methods of preservation to reconcile competing demands for the seclusion of, and access to, American homes to shape the ways that capitalism affected family economies. In these ways, individuals harnessed preservation to garner political, economic, and social profit from the performance of public service. Ultimately, Martinko argues, by portraying the problems of the real estate market as social rather than economic, advocates of preservation affirmed a capitalist system of land development by promising to make it moral.
African Americans in the Visual Arts
Title | African Americans in the Visual Arts PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Otfinoski |
Publisher | Infobase Publishing |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2014-05-14 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1438107773 |
While social concerns have been central to the work of many African-American visual artists, painters
Afromodernisms
Title | Afromodernisms PDF eBook |
Author | Fionnghuala Sweeney |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2013-02-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0748678778 |
This book stretches and challenges current canonical configurations of modernism by considering the centrality of black artists, writers and intellectuals as core presences in the development of a modernist avant-garde; and by interrogating 'blackness' as
The Negro in Art
Title | The Negro in Art PDF eBook |
Author | Alain Locke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Art |
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