Devour the Land

Devour the Land
Author: Makeda Best
Publisher: Harvard Art Museums
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-09-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300260083

Tracing the impacts of militarism on the American landscape, through the lens of art, environmental studies, and politics Devour the Land considers how contemporary photographers have responded to the US military's impact on the domestic environment since the 1970s, a dynamic period for environmental activism as well as for photography. This catalogue presents a lively range of voices at the intersection of art, environmentalism, militarism, photography, and politics. Alongside interviews with prominent contemporary artists working in the landscape photography tradition, the images speak to photographers' varied motivations, personal experiences, and artistic approaches. The result is a surprising picture of the ways violence and warfare surround us. Although most modern combat has taken place abroad, the US domestic landscape bears the footprint of armed conflict--much of the environmental damage we live with today was caused by our own military and the expansive network of industries supporting its work. Designed to evoke a field book and to nod toward ephemera produced by earlier artists and activists, the catalogue features works by dozens of photographers, including Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Dorothy Marder, Alex Webb, Terry Evans, and many more.

American Paintings at Harvard

American Paintings at Harvard
Author: Theodore E. Stebbins
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 649
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 030015352X

This volume features nearly 500 paintings, watercolors, pastels, and miniatures from Harvard University's storied, yet little-known, collection of American art. These works, many unpublished, are drawn from the Harvard Art Museums, the University Portrait Collection, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and other entities, and date from the early colonial years to the mid-19th century. Highlights include a rare group of 17th-century portraits, along with important paintings by Robert Feke, John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, and Washington Allston, in addition to works depicting western and Native American subjects by Alexandre de Batz, Henry Inman, and Alfred Jacob Miller, among others. Each work is accompanied by scholarly commentary that draws on extensive new research, as well as a complete exhibition and reference history. An introduction by Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. describes the history of the collection. Lavishly illustrated in color, this compendium is a testament to the nation's oldest collection of American art, and an essential resource for scholars and collectors alike.

A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley

A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley
Author: Jane Kamensky
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 557
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0393608611

"A stunning biography…[A] truly singular account of the American Revolution." —Amanda Foreman, author of A World on Fire Through an intimate narrative of the life of painter John Singleton Copley, award-winning historian Jane Kamensky reveals the world of the American Revolution, rife with divided loyalties and tangled sympathies. Famed today for his portraits of patriot leaders like Samuel Adams and Paul Revere, Copley is celebrated as one of America’s founding artists. But, married to the daughter of a tea merchant and seeking artistic approval from abroad, he could not sever his own ties with Great Britain. Rather, ambition took him to London just as the war began. His view from abroad as rich and fascinating as his harrowing experiences of patriotism in Boston, Copley’s refusal to choose sides cost him dearly. Yet to this day, his towering artistic legacy remains shared by America and Britain alike.

The Philosophy Chamber

The Philosophy Chamber
Author: Ethan W. Lasser
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 030022592X

"This publication accompanies the exhibition The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard's Teaching Cabinet, 1766-1820, on view at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from May 19 through December 31, 2017, and at The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, Scotland, in 2018."

Doris Salcedo

Doris Salcedo
Author: Mary Schneider Enriquez
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300222513

In Context: Violence and Contemporary Art in Colombia -- Salcedo's Influences: Artists, Works, Practices -- The Six Visual Strategies -- Organic and Ephemeral: Materiality in Salcedo's Most Recent Works -- Inherent Vice and the Ship of Theseus / Narayan Khandekar -- Artist Biography and Exhibition History

A Laboratory for Art

A Laboratory for Art
Author: Francesca Gabrielle Bewer
Publisher: Harvard Art Museums
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300154696

"[Book title] is the first book to explore the crucial role the Fogg [Museum] played in the evolution of conservation in the United States and abroad. It traces the efforts of staff and students who developed protocols for the treatment and documentation of works, sometimes through trial and error; disseminated research findings by establishing professional forums and a seminal journal; set standards for contemporary artists' materials during the New Deal; and led the Allied drive to protect monuments and works of art during World War II."--Back cover.

Harvard Guide to American History

Harvard Guide to American History
Author: Frank Freidel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 644
Release: 1974
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674375604

Editions for 1954 and 1967 by O. Handlin and others.

The Art of Curating

The Art of Curating
Author: Sally Anne Duncan
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2018-08-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1606065696

From 1921 until 1948, Paul J. Sachs (1878–1965) offered a yearlong program in art museum training, “Museum Work and Museum Problems,” through Harvard University’s Fine Arts Department. Known simply as the Museum Course, the program was responsible for shaping a professional field—museum curatorship and management—that, in turn, defined the organizational structure and values of an institution through which the American public came to know art. Conceived at a time of great museum expansion and public interest in the United States, the Museum Course debated curatorial priorities and put theory into practice through the placement of graduates in museums big and small across the land. In this book, authors Sally Anne Duncan and Andrew McClellan examine the role that Sachs and his program played in shaping the character of art museums in the United States in the formative decades of the twentieth century. The Art of Curating is essential reading for museum studies scholars, curators, and historians.

The Harvard Guide to African-American History

The Harvard Guide to African-American History
Author: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 968
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674002760

Compiles information and interpretations on the past 500 years of African American history, containing essays on historical research aids, bibliographies, resources for womens' issues, and an accompanying CD-ROM providing bibliographical entries.

From Slave Ship to Harvard

From Slave Ship to Harvard
Author: James H. Johnston
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0823239500

A true story of six generations of an African American family in Maryland. Based on paintings, photographs, books, diaries, court records, legal documents, and oral histories, the book traces Yarrow Mamout and his in-laws, the Turners, from the colonial period through the Civil War to Harvard and finally the present day.