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Corcoran Gallery of Art
Author | : Corcoran Gallery of Art |
Publisher | : Lucia Marquand |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Painting |
ISBN | : 9781555953614 |
This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.
A Patriot's History of the United States
Author | : Larry Schweikart |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 1350 |
Release | : 2004-12-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1101217782 |
For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history.
Trust in Numbers
Author | : Theodore M. Porter |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2020-08-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0691210543 |
A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification What accounts for the prestige of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is desirable in social investigation as a result of its successes in science. Trust in Numbers questions whether such success in the study of stars, molecules, or cells should be an attractive model for research on human societies, and examines why the natural sciences are highly quantitative in the first place. Theodore Porter argues that a better understanding of the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research brings a fresh perspective to its role in psychology, physics, and medicine. Quantitative rigor is not inherent in science but arises from political and social pressures, and objectivity derives its impetus from cultural contexts. In a new preface, the author sheds light on the current infatuation with quantitative methods, particularly at the intersection of science and bureaucracy.
The Silver Canvas
Author | : Bates Lowry |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2000-02-03 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0892365366 |
By the middle of the nineteenth century, the most common method of photography was the daguerreotype—Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s miraculous invention that captured in a camera visual images on a highly polished silver surface through exposure to light. In this book are presented nearly eighty masterpieces—many never previously published—from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s extensive daguerreotype collection.
History of Pike and Dubois Counties, Indiana
Author | : Goodspeed Brothers |
Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 770 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 5875212225 |
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal
Author | : The J. Paul Getty Museum |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1991-03-21 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0892361786 |
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 18 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, and sculpture and works of art. This volume includes a supplement introduced by John Walsh with a fully illustrated checklist of the Getty’s recent acquisitions. Volume 18 includes articles written by Anthony Cutler, David A. Scott, Maya Elston, Ranee Katzenstein, Ariane can Suchtelen, Klaus Fittschen, Peggy Fogelman, and Catherine Hess.
Disquisitiones Arithmeticae
Author | : Carl Friedrich Gauss |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 491 |
Release | : 2018-02-07 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1493975609 |
Carl Friedrich Gauss’s textbook, Disquisitiones arithmeticae, published in 1801 (Latin), remains to this day a true masterpiece of mathematical examination. .
Galveston Harbor, Tex
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Harbors |
ISBN | : |
Each Wild Idea
Author | : Geoffrey Batchen |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2002-02-22 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9780262523240 |
Essays on photography and the medium's history and evolving identity. In Each Wild Idea, Geoffrey Batchen explores a wide range of photographic subjects, from the timing of the medium's invention to the various implications of cyberculture. Along the way, he reflects on contemporary art photography, the role of the vernacular in photography's history, and the Australianness of Australian photography. The essays all focus on a consideration of specific photographs—from a humble combination of baby photos and bronzed booties to a masterwork by Alfred Stieglitz. Although Batchen views each photograph within the context of broader social and political forces, he also engages its own distinctive formal attributes. In short, he sees photography as something that is simultaneously material and cultural. In an effort to evoke the lived experience of history, he frequently relies on sheer description as the mode of analysis, insisting that we look right at—rather than beyond—the photograph being discussed. A constant theme throughout the book is the question of photography's past, present, and future identity.