Picturing Old New England
Author | : William H. Truettner |
Publisher | : Smithsonian Inst National Museum of |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780937311479 |
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Author | : William H. Truettner |
Publisher | : Smithsonian Inst National Museum of |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780937311479 |
Author | : Joseph A. Conforti |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2003-01-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807875066 |
Say "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quintessential icon of the region--the idyllic white village. Such images remind us that, as Joseph Conforti notes, a region is not just a territory on the ground. It is also a place in the imagination. This ambitious work investigates New England as a cultural invention, tracing the region's changing identity across more than three centuries. Incorporating insights from history, literature, art, material culture, and geography, it shows how succeeding generations of New Englanders created and broadcast a powerful collective identity for their region through narratives about its past. Whether these stories were told in the writings of Frost or Harriet Beecher Stowe, enacted in historical pageants or at colonial revival museums, or conveyed in the pages of a geography textbook or Yankee magazine, New Englanders used them to sustain their identity, revising them as needed to respond to the shifting regional landscape.
Author | : William Barcham |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2014-10-02 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1443868256 |
The concept of ‘happiness’ is central to most civilized cultures. This volume investigates the many ways in which Western art has visualized the concept from the early Middle Ages to the present. Employing different methodological approaches, the essays gathered here situate the concept of human happiness within discourses on gender, religion, intellectual life, politics and ‘New-Age’ culture. Operating as a cultural agent, art communicates the idea of happiness as both a physical and spiritual condition by exploiting specific formulae of representation. This volume combines art history, cultural analyses and intellectual studies in order to explore the complexities of iconographic programs that represent various forms of happiness, or its explicit absence, and to expose the implications embedded in the artistic works in question. Through innovative readings, the ten authors presented in this book survey different artistic and/or cultural paradigms and offer new interpretations of happiness or of its absence.
Author | : Bluford Adams |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2014-01-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 047205208X |
A cultural history of New England examining the notions of regional identity and its transformation between 1865 and 1900
Author | : Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0300097670 |
"Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was a painter, poet, writer, and pioneer of American modernism. Born in Lewiston, Maine, he lived a peripatetic life, working in Paris, Berlin, New York, Mexico, New Mexico, Bermuda, and elsewhere before returning to Maine in 1934. This superbly illustrated book encompasses the extraordinary range and depth of Hartley's creative output. Some one-hundred and five of his works - landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and abstract paintings - demonstrate the visual power for which Hartley gained acclaim as well as the development of his art over the course of his thirty-five year career." "The book gathers together the most recent scholarship on Hartley's work, discussing such topics as the artist's working methods, his self-portraits, the influence of Cezanne on his work, and Hartley's attitudes toward Native Americans. A chronology of his life is included, and each painting is accompanied by a full catalogue entry." "This book also serves as the catalogue of an exhibition organized by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and traveling to the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : Matthew McKenzie |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2011-01-11 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1584659459 |
A social and ecological history of the rise and demise of Cape Cod's coastal fisheries in the nineteenth century
Author | : Christine M. Delucia |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2018-01-01 |
Genre | : Collective memory |
ISBN | : 0300201176 |
A powerful study of King Philip's War and its enduring effects on histories, memories, and places in Native New England from 1675 to the present
Author | : Martha J. McNamara |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2017-06-20 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0253027055 |
A compelling regional and historical study that transforms our understanding of film history, Amateur Movie Making demonstrates how amateur films and home movies stand as testaments to the creative lives of ordinary people, enriching our experience of art and the everyday. Here we encounter the lyrical and visually expressive qualities of films produced in New England between 1915 and 1960 and held in the collections of Northeast Historic Film, a moving image repository and study center that was established to collect, preserve, and interpret the audiovisual record of northern New England. Contributors from diverse backgrounds examine the visual aesthetics of these films while placing them in their social, political, and historical contexts. Each discussion is enhanced by technical notes and the analyses are also juxtaposed with personal reflections by artists who have close connections to particular amateur filmmakers. These reflections reanimate the original private contexts of the home movies before they were recast as objects of study and artifacts of public history.
Author | : Peter C. Holloran |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 661 |
Release | : 2017-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1538102196 |
New England, the most clearly defined region in the United States, includes the six states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. First colonized by the French in 1604 and the British in 1607, the New England colonies were the first to secede from the British Empire and were among the first states admitted to the union. No region has claimed more presidents as native sons (seven) or produced more men and women of exceptional accomplishment and fame. Many Americans see New England as a touchstone for the founding ideas of the nation, and the region served as a source of inspiration for many artists and writers. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of New England contains a chronology, an introduction, appendix, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, places, institutions, and events. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about New England.
Author | : Blake A. Harrison |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Rural tourism |
ISBN | : 9781584655916 |
With its small native population, proximity to major metropolitan areas, and bucolic rural beauty, Vermont was fated to be a tourist mecca, forever associated in the popular imagination with maple syrup, fall colors, and ski bunnies. Tourism, for good and ill, has always been the decisive factor in the conception of rural Vermont. What is surprising, however, is the degree to which we have accepted this notion of rural Vermont as a somehow timeless entity. Blake Harrison's rich and rewarding study instead presents the construction of Vermont's landscape as a complex and ever-changing dynamic informed by progressive, modernist, and reformist thought, competing views of economic expansion, rural and urban prejudice and social exclusion, and (more recently) by land use planning and environmentalism. This broad-based study includes the early history of Vermont tourism, the concomitant abandonment of farms with the rise of the summer home, the creation of an "unspoiled" Vermont (from billboards, at least), the impact of Vermont's ski industry on tradition-bound tourism, and later efforts to legislate growth and protect an increasingly static ideal of a rural Vermont.While grounded within a specific Vermont view, Harrison has much to contribute to broader studies of rural places, tourism, and landscapes in American culture. His analysis of how physical landscapes affect and are affected by our imagined landscape, and the insight afforded by his juxtaposition of leisure and labor, will deeply inform our understanding of rural tourist landscapes for years to come. This is a truly interdisciplinary work that will satisfy and challenge historians and geographers alike.