American Radiance

American Radiance
Author: Luisa Muradyan
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2018-09-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1496207750

Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, American Radiance, at turns funny, tragic, and haunting, reflects on the author’s experience immigrating as a child to the United States from Ukraine in 1991. What does it mean to be an American? Luisa Muradyan doesn’t try to provide an answer. Instead, the poems in American Radiance look for a home in history, folklore, misery, laughter, language, and Prince’s outstretched hand. Colliding with the grand figures of late ’80s and early ’90s pop culture, Muradyan’s imagination pushes the reader forward, confronting the painful loss of identity that assimilation brings.

American Radiance

American Radiance
Author: Museum of American Folk Art
Publisher:
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2001-12
Genre: Art
ISBN:

"Combining new research, never-before-published color photographs, and detailed entries on each artwork, American Radiance is indispensable for students and collectors, yet broadly appealing to the folk art market. The book celebrates the opening of the Museum's new building, where the Esmerian Collection is the widely publicized inaugural exhibition."--BOOK JACKET.

American Radiance

American Radiance
Author: Luisa Muradyan
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2018-09-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1496210921

Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, American Radiance, at turns funny, tragic, and haunting, reflects on the author's experience immigrating as a child to the United States from Ukraine in 1991. What does it mean to be an American? Luisa Muradyan doesn't try to provide an answer. Instead, the poems in American Radiance look for a home in history, folklore, misery, laughter, language, and Prince's outstretched hand. Colliding with the grand figures of late '80s and early '90s pop culture, Muradyan's imagination pushes the reader forward, confronting the painful loss of identity that assimilation brings.

A Fierce Radiance

A Fierce Radiance
Author: Lauren Belfer
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2010-06-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0061999504

“An engrossing and ambitious novel that vividly portrays a critical time in American history.” — Booklist (starred review) “Enthralling. A Fierce Radiance shines with fascinating detail.... Belfer’s powerful portrayal of how people are changed in pursuit of a miracle makes this book an especially compelling read.” — Nancy Horan, author of Loving Frank Set during the uncertain early days of World War II, this suspenseful story from the New York Times bestselling author of City of Light follows the work of photojournalist Claire Shipley as she captures America’s race to develop life-saving antibiotics—an assignment that will involve blackmail, espionage, and murder.

The Radiance of My People

The Radiance of My People
Author: Rudolph Carl Gorman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1992
Genre: Navajo artists
ISBN: 9780963327109

The renowned Navajo artist relates the story of his life and progression of his art, accompanied by numerous photographs of Gorman at work, along with full-page color reproductions of his lithographs, paintings, and drawings.

Crave Radiance

Crave Radiance
Author: Elizabeth Alexander
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-09-28
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781555975685

The first career retrospective by the award-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander, including her poem delivered at Barack Obama's presidential inauguration We crave radiance in this austere world, light in the spiritual darkness. Learning is the one perfect religion, its path correct, narrow, certain, straight. —from "Allegiance" Over twenty years, Elizabeth Alexander has become one of America's most exciting and important poets, and her selection as the inaugural poet by President Obama confirmed her place as one of the indispensable voices of our time. Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990–2010 gathers twenty pages of new poetry, along with generous selections from her previous work. The result is the definitive volume to date by this American master.

Zinc Sculpture in America, 1850-1950

Zinc Sculpture in America, 1850-1950
Author: Carol A. Grissom
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Total Pages: 720
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780874130317

Introduced in the United States as a new material for statuary in the mid-nineteenth century, zinc has properties that allowed replication at low cost. It was used to produce modestly priced serial sculpture displayed throughout the nation on fountains, public monuments, and war memorials. Imitative finishes created the illusion of more costly bronze, stone, or polychrome wood. This first comprehensive overview of American zinc sculpture is interdisciplinary, engaging aspects of art history, popular culture, local history, technology, and art conservation. Included is a generously illustrated catalogue presenting more than eight hundred statues organized by type: trade figures and Indians, gods and goddesses, fountain figures, animals, famous men, military figures, firemen, cemetery memorials, and religous subjects. The compilation of data on these statues will be valuable to scholars, filling the current void in research libraries. The author's experience as a conservator will also make the an essential resource for historic preservationists seeking to repair statues now damaged by years of outdoor exposure. This book has 555 illustrations, 354 of which are in color. Carol Grissom is Senior Objects Conservator at the Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute.

Radiant Church

Radiant Church
Author: Tara Beth Leach
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2021-02-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830847634

In an era where the church has lost much of its credibility, pastor Tara Beth Leach casts a vision for Christians to rediscover a robust, attractive witness and form the radiant communities God intends. Challenging idolatrous false images of God and calling out toxic patterns, she shows how we can recover a winsome picture of a kingdom of abundance and goodness.

Folk Art in Maine

Folk Art in Maine
Author: Kevin D. Murphy
Publisher: Down East Books
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2008-05-06
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1461745101

Folk art proves that producing utilitarian objects can provide an opportunity for self-expression. From decoys to sea chests, folk art is not only rooted in the useful but in the realities of living. Some folk art makes daily chores more fun, while others, such as mourning art, help people face life's saddest occasions. This volume is an introduction for the novice and a treasure for the collector.

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Author: Carol Crown
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 519
Release: 2013-06-03
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1469607999

Folk art is one of the American South's most significant areas of creative achievement, and this comprehensive yet accessible reference details that achievement from the sixteenth century through the present. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores the many forms of aesthetic expression that have characterized southern folk art, including the work of self-taught artists, as well as the South's complex relationship to national patterns of folk art collecting. Fifty-two thematic essays examine subjects ranging from colonial portraiture, Moravian material culture, and southern folk pottery to the South's rich quilt-making traditions, memory painting, and African American vernacular art, and 211 topical essays include profiles of major folk and self-taught artists in the region.