Masonic Symbols in American Decorative Arts
Author | : Barbara Franco |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1976 |
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ISBN | : 9780962110757 |
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Author | : Barbara Franco |
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Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1976 |
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ISBN | : 9780962110757 |
Author | : Scottish Rite Masonic Museum of Our National Heritage |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Decoration and ornament |
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Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1975 |
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Author | : Gerard C. Wertkin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 2004-08-02 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1135956154 |
For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of American Folk Art web site. This is the first comprehensive, scholarly study of a most fascinating aspect of American history and culture. Generously illustrated with both black and white and full-color photos, this A-Z encyclopedia covers every aspect of American folk art, encompassing not only painting, but also sculpture, basketry, ceramics, quilts, furniture, toys, beadwork, and more, including both famous and lesser-known genres. Containing more than 600 articles, this unique reference considers individual artists, schools, artistic, ethnic, and religious traditions, and heroes who have inspired folk art. An incomparable resource for general readers, students, and specialists, it will become essential for anyone researching American art, culture, and social history.
Author | : Carolyn L. White |
Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2005-09-08 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 075911465X |
Bracelets, buckles, buttons, and beads. Clasps, combs, and chains. Items of personal adornment fill museum collections and are regularly uncovered in historical period archaeological excavations. But until the publication of this comprehensive volume, there has been no basic guide to help curators, registrars, historians, archaeologists, or collectors identify this class of objects from colonial and early republican America. Carolyn L. White helps the reader understand and interpret these artifacts, discussing their source, manufacture, materials, function, and value in early American life. She uses them as a window on personal identity, showing how gender, age, ethnicity, and class were often displayed through the objects worn. White draws not only on the items themselves, but uses their portrayal in art, contemporary writings, advertisements, and business records to assess their meaning to their owners. A reference volume for the shelf of anyone interested in early American material culture. Over 100 illustrations and tables.
Author | : Reva Wolf |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2019-11-28 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1501337971 |
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2020 With the dramatic rise of Freemasonry in the eighteenth century, art played a fundamental role in its practice, rhetoric, and global dissemination, while Freemasonry, in turn, directly influenced developments in art. This mutually enhancing relationship has only recently begun to receive its due. The vilification of Masons, and their own secretive practices, have hampered critical study and interpretation. As perceptions change, and as masonic archives and institutions begin opening to the public, the time is ripe for a fresh consideration of the interconnections between Freemasonry and the visual arts. This volume offers diverse approaches, and explores the challenges inherent to the subject, through a series of eye-opening case studies that reveal new dimensions of well-known artists such as Francisco de Goya and John Singleton Copley, and important collectors and entrepreneurs, including Arturo Alfonso Schomburg and Baron Taylor. Individual essays take readers to various countries within Europe and to America, Iran, India, and Haiti. The kinds of art analyzed are remarkably wide-ranging-porcelain, architecture, posters, prints, photography, painting, sculpture, metalwork, and more-and offer a clear picture of the international scope of the relationships between Freemasonry and art and their significance for the history of modern social life, politics, and spiritual practices. In examining this topic broadly yet deeply, Freemasonry and the Visual Arts sets a standard for serious study of the subject and suggests new avenues of investigation in this fascinating emerging field.
Author | : Kenneth L. Ames |
Publisher | : Winterthur Museum |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
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This bibliography of the study of household furnishings used in the United States from the seventeenth century to the early twentieth century contains twenty-one sections. Each section begins with an essay that outlines the development of scholarship in the files and points toward new directions for research with annotated entries on the most significant works. Three chapters present the basic reference tools and surveys of art and architecture. These are followed by chapters devoted to such topics as furniture; metals, including silver and gold, pewter, and Britannia metal; ceramics and glass; textiles; timepieces; household activities and systems; and craftsmen and the Arts and Crafts Movement in America. Includes an author/title index.
Author | : Ronald Hoffman |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 479 |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807838357 |
These thirteen original essays are provocative explorations in the construction and representation of self in America's colonial and early republican eras. Highlighting the increasing importance of interdisciplinary research for the field of early American history, these leading scholars in the field extend their reach to literary criticism, anthropology, psychology, and material culture. The collection is organized into three parts--Histories of Self, Texts of Self, and Reflections on Defining Self. Individual essays examine the significance of dreams, diaries, and carved chests, murder and suicide, Indian kinship, and the experiences of African American sailors. Gathered in celebration of the Institute of Early American History and Culture's fiftieth anniversary, these imaginative inquiries will stimulate critical thinking and open new avenues of investigation on the forging of self-identity in early America. The contributors are W. Jeffrey Bolster, T. H. Breen, Elaine Forman Crane, Greg Dening, Philip Greven, Rhys Isaac, Kenneth A. Lockridge, James H. Merrell, Donna Merwick, Mary Beth Norton, Mechal Sobel, Alan Taylor, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and Richard White.
Author | : Nancy Goyne Evans |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 519 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Furniture making |
ISBN | : 1584654937 |
The definitive work on the production of Windsor furniture, from one of America's premier authorities.
Author | : Elizabeth A. Davison |
Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 0759119554 |
A full-color catalog and in-depth examination of the distinctive furniture made by pro-British carpenter and joiner John Shearer, one of the most accomplished furniture makers of the post-Revolutionary period. This publication is co-sponsored by the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts at Old Salem, the Daughters of the American Revolution Museum, and the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley.