Author: Karen O. Janovy
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 080327629X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
"All of the 90 pieces selected from more than 350 works in the collection are presented here in full color, each accompanied by a brief discussion of the artist and his or her work by leading scholars in the field as well as authorities on the collection. The essays examine the works of sculptors represented in the Sheldon's collection, including Barlach, Brancusi, Calder, Duchamp, Moore, and Rodin, and present a concise yet comprehensive overview of pertinent scholarship that will be of value to both students and experts in the field."--BOOK JACKET.
Sculpture from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
Author: Karen O. Janovy
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 080327629X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
"All of the 90 pieces selected from more than 350 works in the collection are presented here in full color, each accompanied by a brief discussion of the artist and his or her work by leading scholars in the field as well as authorities on the collection. The essays examine the works of sculptors represented in the Sheldon's collection, including Barlach, Brancusi, Calder, Duchamp, Moore, and Rodin, and present a concise yet comprehensive overview of pertinent scholarship that will be of value to both students and experts in the field."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 080327629X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
"All of the 90 pieces selected from more than 350 works in the collection are presented here in full color, each accompanied by a brief discussion of the artist and his or her work by leading scholars in the field as well as authorities on the collection. The essays examine the works of sculptors represented in the Sheldon's collection, including Barlach, Brancusi, Calder, Duchamp, Moore, and Rodin, and present a concise yet comprehensive overview of pertinent scholarship that will be of value to both students and experts in the field."--BOOK JACKET.
Singular Expressions
Mending Skins
Author: Eric Gansworth
Publisher: Bison Books
ISBN: 9780803271180
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Opening Addresses -- Part One: Feeling Bolts -- Switching Foundations -- Parting Weighs -- Connecting Flights -- Border One: Burying Voices -- Part Two: Cutting Patterns -- Leaving Messages -- Identifying Marks -- Answering Calls -- Border Two: Burning Memories -- Part Three: Hiding Seams -- Matching Lots -- Tanning Hides -- Fraying Threads -- Epilogue: Noting Entries
Publisher: Bison Books
ISBN: 9780803271180
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Opening Addresses -- Part One: Feeling Bolts -- Switching Foundations -- Parting Weighs -- Connecting Flights -- Border One: Burying Voices -- Part Two: Cutting Patterns -- Leaving Messages -- Identifying Marks -- Answering Calls -- Border Two: Burning Memories -- Part Three: Hiding Seams -- Matching Lots -- Tanning Hides -- Fraying Threads -- Epilogue: Noting Entries
The Irretrievable Opportunity of Serving the Young
Edwin Dickinson
Author: Douglas Dreishpoon
Publisher: Hudson Hills
ISBN: 9781555952143
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This work surveys Edwin Dickinson's life and career, both of which revolved around Cape Cod, Buffalo, and New York's Finger Lakes region. It covers the artist's influential career as a teacher, and analyzes Dickinson's self-portraits and major symbolic paintings.
Publisher: Hudson Hills
ISBN: 9781555952143
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This work surveys Edwin Dickinson's life and career, both of which revolved around Cape Cod, Buffalo, and New York's Finger Lakes region. It covers the artist's influential career as a teacher, and analyzes Dickinson's self-portraits and major symbolic paintings.
American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A catalogue of works by artists born between 1865 and 1885
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870999230
Category : Sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Volume One: This volume catalogues the distinguished and comprehensive collection of approximately 400 works of American sculpture by artists born before 1865. This publication includes an introduction on the history of the collection's formation, particularly in the context of the Museum's early years of acquisitions, and discusses the outstanding personalities involved. --Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870999230
Category : Sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Volume One: This volume catalogues the distinguished and comprehensive collection of approximately 400 works of American sculpture by artists born before 1865. This publication includes an introduction on the history of the collection's formation, particularly in the context of the Museum's early years of acquisitions, and discusses the outstanding personalities involved. --Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Cookbook
Author: Jean L. Martin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780960201815
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Paintings, drawings & sculpture from the Sheldon Gallery's contemporary American collection illustrate this middlewestern gathering of recipes, representing 27 countries whose settlers began this area. Here are recipes from 42 artists, 8 menus, as well as over 1,200 ideas for gourmet or just-plain cooking
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780960201815
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Paintings, drawings & sculpture from the Sheldon Gallery's contemporary American collection illustrate this middlewestern gathering of recipes, representing 27 countries whose settlers began this area. Here are recipes from 42 artists, 8 menus, as well as over 1,200 ideas for gourmet or just-plain cooking
Art Information and the Internet
Author: Lois Swan Jones
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135933383
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
In the first book of its kind, art information expert Lois Swan Jones discusses how to locate visual and textual information on the Internet and how to evaluate and supplement that information with material from other formats--print sources, CD-ROMS, documentary videos, and microfiche sets--to produce excellent research results. The book is divided into three sections: Basic Information Formats; Types of Websites and How to Find Them; and How to Use Web Information. Jones discusses the strengths and limitations of Websites; scholarly and basic information resources are noted; and search strategies for finding pertinent Websites are included. Art Information and the Internet also discusses research methodology for studying art-historical styles, artists working in various media, individual works of art, and non-Western cultures--as well as art education, writing about art, problems of copyright, and issues concerning the buying and selling of art. This title will be periodically updated.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135933383
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
In the first book of its kind, art information expert Lois Swan Jones discusses how to locate visual and textual information on the Internet and how to evaluate and supplement that information with material from other formats--print sources, CD-ROMS, documentary videos, and microfiche sets--to produce excellent research results. The book is divided into three sections: Basic Information Formats; Types of Websites and How to Find Them; and How to Use Web Information. Jones discusses the strengths and limitations of Websites; scholarly and basic information resources are noted; and search strategies for finding pertinent Websites are included. Art Information and the Internet also discusses research methodology for studying art-historical styles, artists working in various media, individual works of art, and non-Western cultures--as well as art education, writing about art, problems of copyright, and issues concerning the buying and selling of art. This title will be periodically updated.
Annual Report
Author: National Endowment for the Arts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to the arts
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Reports for 1980-19 also include the Annual report of the National Council on the Arts.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to the arts
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Reports for 1980-19 also include the Annual report of the National Council on the Arts.
Painting from the Collection of the Sheldon Museum of Art
Author: Sheldon Museum of Art
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803248695
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In honor of the 50th birthday of the Sheldon Museum of Art’s Philip Johnson–designed building and the 125th anniversary of the Sheldon Art Association and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln art collection, Painting from the Collection of the Sheldon Museum of Art showcases the Sheldon’s impressive collection, featuring reproductions of 125 major works along with smart, engaging entries by a team of respected scholars. The catalog presents some of the museum’s most beloved and widely known canvases, including eighteenth- and nineteenth-century masterpieces by Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, and Benjamin West; iconic pictures by twentieth-century artists such as Edward Hopper, Lee Krasner, Barnett Newman, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol; and works by both emerging artists and giants in the contemporary field, including Dan Christensen, Carmen Herrera, Hung Liu, Ed Ruscha, Patssi Valdez, and Philemona Williamson. This survey highlights the artistic, cultural, and geographic conflicts and concurrences that shaped more than two centuries of American painting and offers art enthusiasts and scholars alike a means to reconnect with old favorites while discovering new ones—all freshly interpreted based on recent discoveries and research.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803248695
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In honor of the 50th birthday of the Sheldon Museum of Art’s Philip Johnson–designed building and the 125th anniversary of the Sheldon Art Association and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln art collection, Painting from the Collection of the Sheldon Museum of Art showcases the Sheldon’s impressive collection, featuring reproductions of 125 major works along with smart, engaging entries by a team of respected scholars. The catalog presents some of the museum’s most beloved and widely known canvases, including eighteenth- and nineteenth-century masterpieces by Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, and Benjamin West; iconic pictures by twentieth-century artists such as Edward Hopper, Lee Krasner, Barnett Newman, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol; and works by both emerging artists and giants in the contemporary field, including Dan Christensen, Carmen Herrera, Hung Liu, Ed Ruscha, Patssi Valdez, and Philemona Williamson. This survey highlights the artistic, cultural, and geographic conflicts and concurrences that shaped more than two centuries of American painting and offers art enthusiasts and scholars alike a means to reconnect with old favorites while discovering new ones—all freshly interpreted based on recent discoveries and research.