Who was who in American History, Arts and Letters
Author: Marquis Who's Who, Inc
Publisher:
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 658
ISBN-13:
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Who was who in American History
More Than Words
Author: Liza Kirwin
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2005-10-27
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781568985237
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Words speak volumes, but, as every letter writer knows, there are times when they simply won't do. When the author happens to be a visual artist, he has an added advantage - one that transforms ordinary stationery into a canvas. This book chronicles those occasions when words were not enough, and some of America's most revered artists turned their talents to illustrating their most intimate thoughts and feelings. Writing to wives, lovers, friends, patrons, clients, and confidants, premiere artists such as Frederick Edwin Church, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, Rockwell Kent, Lyonel Feininger, John Sloan, Alfred Frueh, Man Ray, Alexander Calder, Dorothea Tanning, Gio Ponti, Andy Warhol, and Frida Kahlo picture the world around them in charming vignettes, caricatures, portraits, and landscapes. Together, the words and images of these autobiographical works of art, created for private consumption, reveal the joys and successes, loves and longings, triumphs and frustrations of their distinguished authors' personal lives and professional careers."--Jacket.
American Letters
Author: Jackson Pollock
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2011-04-11
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0745651550
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents letters written by the American painter and his brothers and parents from the late 1920s to the late 1940s.
Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts
Author: Christopher K. Ho
Publisher:
Published: 2021-02-24
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781736507902
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of seventy-three letters written in 2020 captures an unprecedented moment in politics and society through the experiences of Asian-American artists, curators, educators, art historians, editors, writers, and designers. The form of the letter offers readers intimate insights into the complexities of Asian American experiences, moving beyond the model-minority myth. Chronicling everyday lives, dreams, rage, family histories, and cultural politics, these letters ignite new ways of being, and modes of creating, at a moment of racial reckoning.
The American Academy of Arts and Letters
Author: National Institute of Arts and Letters (New York (N.Y.))
Publisher:
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Cultural Cold War
Author: Frances Stonor Saunders
Publisher: New Press, The
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 1595589147
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy’s most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA—whether they knew it or not. Called "the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA’s] activities between 1947 and 1967" by the New York Times, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIA’s undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at home, drawing together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA’s astonishing campaign to deploy the likes of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock as weapons in the Cold War. Translated into ten languages, this classic work—now with a new preface by the author—is "a real contribution to popular understanding of the postwar period" (The Wall Street Journal), and its story of covert cultural efforts to win hearts and minds continues to be relevant today.
Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Canada
Author: Jeffrey Brison
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2005-12-01
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0773572694
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the first half of the twentieth century, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation helped to create and maintain a cultural and intellectual infrastructure in Canada that benefited key institutions such as University of Toronto, McGill University, the National Gallery, the Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Canadian Social Science Research Council. Jeffrey Brison documents how American philanthropy facilitated the transformation from a private, localized system of cultural, intellectual, and academic patronage to a complex, nation-based system of incorporated patronage - a system in which the major patron was the federal state. His study calls into question our essentialistic notions of contrasting national identities and the now-mythologized juxtaposition of an American culture fueled by the free market with a Canadian one sustained by state support.
Letters & Papers of John Singleton Copley and Henry Pelham, 1739-1776
