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  • Trade catalogs from Crane Co.

    Variant company name
    "Modern American home"
    Company Name
    Crane Co.
    Related companies
    Crane Export Corp. ; Crane, Ltd.
    Notes content
    Corwith family of lavatories, baths, sinks, dressing tables ; water systems, heaters, softeners
    Includes
    Trade catalog and photographs
    Black and white images
    Color images
    Physical description
    2 pieces; 1 box
    Type of material
    Trade catalogs
    Trade literature
    Place
    Chicago, Illinois, United States
    Date range
    1800s-1900s
    Topic (Romaine term)
    Water wheels; water motors and waterpower equipment
    Plumbing supplies and fixtures
    Appliances (household)
    Topic
    Household appliances
    Hydraulic engineering
    Hydraulic machinery
    Plumbing equipment industry
    Plumbing fixtures
    Water-power
    Water-wheels
    Record ID
    SILNMAHTL_10162
    Location
    Trade Literature at the American History Museum Library
    Collection
    Smithsonian Libraries Trade Literature Collections
    Data source
    Smithsonian Libraries
  • Trade catalogs from Clemens Riefler

    Variant company name
    Est. 1841 ; Nesselwang, Germany ; filed under "Riefler"
    Company Name
    Clemens Riefler
    Related companies
    F. Weber & Co. (Philadelphia, PA) ; Sigmund Riefler ; S. Riefler ; Riefler Industry GmbH & Co.
    Notes content
    One envelope OVERSIZE ; some catalogs also in English ; exhibition pamphlet from World's Columbian Exhibition, Chicago, 1893 ; mathematical instruments ; nickel steel compensation pendulum ; electric apparatus for time-service installations in observatories ; pendulum clocks ; drawing and measuring instruments ; astronomical clock ; mercurial compensation pendulum ; 1927
    Includes
    Trade catalog and price lists
    Black and white images
    Physical description
    21 pieces; 5 boxes
    Type of material
    Trade catalogs
    Trade literature
    Place
    Munich, Germany
    Date range
    1800s-1900s
    Topic (Romaine term)
    Artists; drafting; crafts materials and supplies
    Clocks and watches (including clock-making and watch-making equipment)
    Electrical apparatus and equipment
    Fairs and exhibitions
    Measuring; calculating and testing devices
    Scientific and optical instruments
    Topic
    Artists' materials
    Calculators
    Clocks and watches
    Electric apparatus and appliances
    Fairs
    Handicraft
    Measuring instruments
    Mechanical drawing
    Optical instruments
    Scientific apparatus and instruments
    Trade shows
    Weighing instruments
    Record ID
    SILNMAHTL_12083
    Location
    Trade Literature at the American History Museum Library
    Collection
    Smithsonian Libraries Trade Literature Collections
    Data source
    Smithsonian Libraries
  • L'autoportrait photographique américain : 1839-1939 / Marie Cordié Lévy

    author
    Cordié Lévy, Marie
    Physical description
    292 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 21 cm
    Type
    Books
    History
    Place
    United States
    Date
    2014
    19th century
    20th century
    Notes
    "Un des premiers daguerréotypes pris aux Etats-Unis est l'autoportrait de Henry Fitz qui ouvrit un studio à Baltimore dès qu'Arago eut proclamé qu'il donnait cette invention au monde. Qui était-il, d'où tirait-il son inspiration et comment le fit-il ? L'autoportrait photographique américain de 1839 à 1939 se propose de déchiffrer une trentaine d'autoportraits par une lecture micro-analytique de l'image ancrée dans littérature. Du geste fondateur de Henry Fitz, l'autoportrait devient pendant la guerre de sécession avec Mathew Brady un lieu de questionnement sur la position du médium. Au tournant du XXe siècle, les divergences entre le pictorialiste Fred Holland Day et l'inventeur de la photo pure, Alfred Stieglitz s'exposent dans leurs autoportraits respectifs; les Africains Américains comme les frères Good-ridge montrent comment ils vivent la ségrégation et les féministes comme Imogen Cunningham rêvent d'un avenir libéré. Avec l'invention du Leica plus maniable, l'autoportrait exprime un point de vue plus intime sur le monde par le biais du masque comme chez Paul Outerbridge, de la solarisation comme chez Man Ray et Lee Miller, ou de l'anamorphose comme chez Clarence John Laughlin. Ce livre qui permet d'appréhender l'histoire visuelle des Etats-Unis sous un angle sensible s'adresse à tous les passionnés de l'image qui trouveront, dans cette mise en lumière de la conscience de soi qu'est l'autoportrait, l'élément fondateur de toute prise de vue: la liberté du photographe." -- P. [4] of cover
    Contents
    Le portrait -- Taxinomie picturale appliquée à la photographie -- L'autoportrait en peinture -- L'autoportrait en photographie aux États-Unis -- Micro-analyse -- 1. Les daguerréotypes -- Henry Fitz Jr., 1839 : La sentinelle endormie -- Robert Cornelius, 1839 : L'autoportrait en flux tendu -- Albert S. Southworth, 1840, 1848 : Le dérèglement climatique de l'homme au torse nu -- Josiah Johnson Hawes, 1845-50 et 1890 : L'autoportrait anachronique -- Mathew Brady, 1850: L'autoportrait triple ou la poésie intime des mains féminines -- Conclusion -- 2. Rupture et mirage -- Mathew Brady, 1861, 1863, 1865 : L'observateur du pouvoir -- Alexander Gardner, 1864: Dans la tourmente du champ de bataille -- Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1867 : Un autoportrait hanté -- Edward S. Curtis, 1899 : " L'attrapeur d'ombre " ou l'indien incorporé -- Lenora Blandin, ca 1917 : Premier autoportrait indien triple -- Conclusion -- 3. Enjeux esthétiques du tournant du siècle -- Fred Holland Day, 1898 : L'exquise souffrance d'une profanation -- Alfred Stieglitz, 1911 : La force de l'obscurité -- Edward Steichen, 1898, 1929 : Autoportraits discrets en noir et blanc -- Conclusion -- 4. "La petite nation " -- Frederick Douglass : De l'autobiographie à l'engagement photographique -- Goodridge Brothers, 1879 : Premier autoportrait double -- Thomas Askew, 1900 : Un rêve paradoxal -- James Van Der Zee, 1922 : Usage de la mesure dans l'oscillation -- Conclusion -- 5. Les féministes visionnaires -- Frances Benjamin Johnston, ca 1898: La perfection d'une visibilité éphémère -- Gertrude Kasebier, 1910 : Un jeu de patience sur la pointe des pieds -- Tina Modotti, 1918 : L'échappée belle -- Anne Brigman, 1908, 1915, 1928: Le tourment ailé d'une pionnière -- Imogen Cunningham, 1909, 1915, 1925, 1932 : Au dessus du plafond de verre -- Conclusion -- 6. L'explosion formelle -- Alfred Stieglitz, 1916 : " Ombres sur le lac " -- Paul Outerbridge, 1927: Le masque de la génération perdue -- Ralph Steiner, 1929 : Autoportrait et déchirure -- Otto Hagel, Charles Rivers, 1930 : De l'instabilité dans l'élévation -- Man Ray, 1931, Lee Miller, 1932 : Les autoportraits solarisés -- John Gutmann, 1933 : Elévation californienne -- Lotte Jacobi, 1936 : De la parenthèse comme érotique féminine -- Berenice Abbott, 1937 : De la déformation nécessaire à une chambre à soi -- Clarence John Laughlin, 1937, Norman Rhoad Garrett, 1939 : De la divergence en anamorphose -- 520 00
    Topic
    Portrait photography--History
    Self-portraits, American
    Call number
    TR575 .C67 2014
    Data Source
    Smithsonian Libraries
  • "The greatest poem" : American art from the Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. and Mark Thornton collection

    writer of added commentary
    Harper, Dennis
    publisher
    Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art
    Subject
    Ekelund, Robert B (Robert Burton) 1940- Art collections
    Thornton, Mark Art collections
    Physical description
    73 pages : color illustrations ; 20 x 27 cm
    Type
    Exhibitions
    Place
    Alabama
    Auburn
    Date
    2015
    19th century
    20th century
    Notes
    Catalog of an exhibition held at Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn, Alabama, May 23-September 6, 2015.
    Essay by Dennis Harper.
    Topic
    Art, American
    Art--Private collections
    Data Source
    Smithsonian Libraries
  • Mexican graphic art / Milena Oehy ; edited by ZürcherKunstgesellschaft/Kunsthaus Zürich ; translations: Lisa Rosenblatt

    author
    Oehy, Milena 1984-
    collector
    Haab, Armin
    writer of foreword
    Becker, Christoph 1960-
    owner
    Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft
    host institution
    Kunsthaus Zürich
    Subject
    Haab, Armin Art collections
    Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft
    Physical description
    319 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
    Type
    Catalogs
    History
    Exhibition catalogs
    Place
    Mexico
    Date
    2017
    19th century
    20th century
    Notes
    "This publication presents the comprehensive collection of Mexican graphic art gifted to the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft by Armin Haab and is published to coincide with the exhibition Mexican Graphic Art, Kunsthaus Zürich, May 19 - August 27, 2017. The exhibition presents a selection of the works in this book."--Colophon.
    Summary
    "This new book, published to coincide with an exhibition at Kunsthaus Zurich in summer 2017 offers an overview of the development of Mexican graphic art between the late 19th-century and the 1970s, ranging from figurativism to early abstract works. It features around 50 key works on paper, printed using a range of techniques, that deal with issues such as poverty and wealth, love and cruelty, and the poetry and hardships of everyday life. In addition to prints by Jose Guadalupe Posada, there are characteristic Realist works by Leopoldo Mendez, Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros as well as abstracts by Rufino Tamayo and Francisco Toledo. Revolutionary ideas and engagement with socio-cultural and socio-political concerns play a key role in the history of Mexican art. The members of Taller de Grafica Popular, a people's graphic art workshop established in 1937 by a collective of international artists in Mexico, produced flyers and posters for the masses supporting trade unions, popular education and socialist issues in the country. Their editions exemplify the typical Mexican tradition of black-and-white woodcuts and linoleum prints. The images depict Mexican life and the customs and characteristics of its indigenous populations, but also include the country's first forays into abstract art. The images are complemented by an introductory essay and brief texts on the artists and featured works. The Mexican Graphic Art exhibition runs from 19 May to 27 August 2017, Kunsthaus Zurich." -- provided by publisher.
    Topic
    Graphic arts--History
    Drawing, Mexican
    Prints, Mexican
    Lithography, Mexican
    Engraving, Mexican
    Call number
    NE544 .O4413 2017
    Data Source
    Smithsonian Libraries
  • In this Academy : the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976 : a special bicentennial exhibition / organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

    Author
    Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
    Subject
    Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
    Physical description
    322 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm
    Type
    Exhibitions
    Date
    1976
    20th century
    19th century
    Topic
    Art, American
    Call number
    N6510 .I5X
    N6510.I5X
    Data Source
    Smithsonian Libraries
  • Artists and East Hampton : a 100 year perspective : a Bicentennial exhibition, Museum Section, Guild Hall of East Hampton, East Hampton, N.Y., August 14-October 3, 1976 / text and editorial, Phyllis Braff

    Author
    Guild Hall of East Hampton
    Braff, Phyllis
    Physical description
    51 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
    Type
    Exhibitions
    Place
    New York (State)
    East Hampton
    Date
    1976
    [c1976]
    19th century
    20th century
    Notes
    Includes index.
    Topic
    Artist colonies
    Art, American
    Call number
    N6535.E2G8 1976X
    Data Source
    Smithsonian Libraries
  • Ödön Lechner in context : studies of the international conference on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Ödön Lechner's death / edited by Zsombor Jékely with the assistance of Zsuzsa Margittai and Klára Szegzárdy-Csengery ; English translation: Stephen Kane and others

    Author
    Lechner, Ödön 1845-1914
    Jékely, Zsombor
    Margittai, Zsuzsa
    Szegzárdy-Csengery, Klára
    Subject
    Lechner, Ödön 1845-1914
    Physical description
    231 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
    Type
    Congresses
    Conference papers and proceedings
    History
    Place
    Hungary
    Europe
    Date
    2015
    19th century
    20th century
    Notes
    "The conference was jointly organized by the Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest and the Institute of Art History, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences"--Title page verso.
    Papers from a conference focusing on the role and architecture of European museums of decorative arts, orientalism in late 19th century architecture, architecture and technology, and European architects contemporary to Lechner.
    Contents
    The œuvre of the architect Ödön Lechner (1845-1914) and research on Lechner / Katalin Keserü. Ödön Lechner : maverick, dreamer, patriot : an architect of modernisation. I. Applied arts : museums of applied arts. Genuineness and oldness : issues of authenticity in the applied arts in the later nineteenth century / Stefan Muthesius. The Berlin Kunstgewerbemuseum : from common welfare to social segregation / Michaela Marek. "Good taste" on display : the Bavarian Museum of Applied Arts (1869-1989) and the design reform movement / Roland Prügel. Designing modernity : the Museum of Technology and Industry in Cracow / Piotr Kopszak. The Museum of Industry in Kolozsvár and its collections / Jenő Murádin -- János Vadona's collection of Japanese and Chinese objects in the Museum of Industry in Kolozsvár / Miklós Székely -- II. Orientalism and ornament. Nursing the ciphers and chimeras of orientalist presence and absence in architecture around 1900 / Jeremy Howard. Sarmatism in Polish applied arts and architecture at the turn of the nineteenth century / Magdalena Długosz. Enthralled by national ornament : debates at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries about the origins of Hungerian conquest period decorative art / Ádám Bollók. Oriental architecture and decoration in architecture training and art instruction / Júlia Katona. The Damascus Room, Lechner, and the domestication of the oriental space / Iváan Szánto -- III. Architecture, architecture as art, engineering architecture. Frames of colour : the emergence of the polychromatic city in Third Republic Paris / Barry Bergdoll. The role of the Berlin Bauakademie in the training of Ödön Lechner and other Hungarian architects, and the limitations of opportunities of historicism / József Sisa. Invention or experiment : the public lobby in Hungarian Royal Postal Savings Bank / Gyula Dávid -- IV. Ödön Lechner : 'father figure' of the modern Hungarian architecture : followers, criticism and reception of Lechner in the first half of the 20th century. Rationalism, soul, and form : Dutch architecture around 1900. Jan Kotěra : between the ideas shaping modern Czech architecture / Ladislav Zikmund-Lender. Struggle for modern architecture in Vienna and Budapest : Otto Wagner and Ödön Lechner / Béla Kerékgyártó
    Topic
    Architecture--History
    Architecture--Oriental influences
    Decorative arts--History
    Decorative arts--Oriental influences
    Decorative arts--Collectors and collecting--History
    Data Source
    Smithsonian Libraries
  • Illustrations of the book of Job / by William Blake ; being all the water-colour designs, pencil drawings and engravings reproduced in facsimile ; with an introduction by Laurence Binyon, C.H., late keeper of the prints at the British Museum and Geoffrey Keynes, M.A., M.D. Cantab., F.R.C.S. Eng

    Blake's illustrations of the Book of Job
    illustrator
    Blake, William 1757-1827
    writer of introduction
    Binyon, Laurence 1869-1943
    Keynes, Geoffrey 1887-1982
    printer
    Johnson, John de Monins 1882-1956
    printer of plates
    Merton, Wilfred 1888-1957
    Kent, William active 1935
    Emery Walker Limited
    Physical description
    6 parts : illustrations (some color) ; 39 cm, in box 41 cm
    Type
    Books
    Illustrated works
    Drawings
    Engravings
    Facsimiles
    Watercolors
    Facsimiles (Publishing)
    Place
    Great Britain
    New York
    Date
    1935
    19th century
    1825
    20th century
    Notes
    Issued in 6 parts (fascicles) in gray stiff paper covers, with blue cloth spines and mounted title labels
    "The number of designs in the water-colour sets is twenty-one; there are twenty-four pencil sketches, but two of these are first studies and one was not used. The number of engraved plates, however, is twenty-two, a title page with a design of seven angels being added to this series."--Fascicle 1, page 13
    "All the reproductions, except the collotypes in the text of the introduction, have been made and printed by Messrs. Emery Walker Ltd. under the care of Mr. Wilfred Merton and Mr. William Kent. The introductory section has been printed by Mr. John Johnson at the University Press, Oxford" --Page [5] of the introduction
    Printed in Great Britain
    Bentley, G.E. Blake books, 374
    Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1852
    AAPGRB and CHMRB each have a copy.
    AAPGRB copy (N40.1 .B63B55 1935 folio AAPGRB; barcode 39088000337162) has stamps: 1. Smithsonian Institution, National Gallery of art, Oct. 29, 1935, "cancelled"; 2. Smithsonian Institution, National Collection of Fine Arts, May 1942; 3. NMAA/NPG Library, Smithsonian Institution, Jan. 27, 1986. Accession numbers: 4867-4872. With a handwritten note in pencil in the upper left corner of the title page in fascicle 1: 1495, purchased Pierpont Morgan Library, Nat. Gallery of Art, 6 books, $75.00
    AAPGRB copy has the fascicles bound in their original paper covers, housed in a blue cloth clamshell box with printed paper spine label, as issued
    CHMRB copy has call number NC1115 .B63 1935 folio CHMRB and barcode 39088006916019
    CHMRB preservation buckram enclosures supported by the Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF) in 2014
    Contents
    I. Introduction -- II. Twenty-one water-colour drawings made for Thomas Butts -- III. Twenty-one water-colour drawings made for John Linnell -- IV. Pencil drawings made for the reduced water-colours -- V. Twenty-one reduced water-colours known as the New Zealand set -- 6. Illustrations of the Book of Job, in twenty-one plates, invented and engraved by William Blake, [facsimile of the original volume published with the engravings in 1826]
    Topic
    Illumination of books and manuscripts
    Color
    Reproductions
    Call number
    NC1115 .B63 1935
    NC1115.B63 1935
    Data Source
    Smithsonian Libraries
  • The painters' America: rural and urban life, 1810-1910 organized for the Whitney Museum of American Art by Patricia Hills

    Author
    Hills, Patricia
    Whitney Museum of American Art
    Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
    Oakland Museum
    Physical description
    xxiii, 160 p. illus. (part col.) 25 cm
    Type
    Exhibitions
    In art
    Place
    United States
    Date
    1974
    [1974]
    19th century
    20th century
    Notes
    Exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Sept. 20-Nov. 10, 1974; at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Dec. 5, 1974-Jan. 19, 1975; and at the Oakland Museum, Feb. 10-Mar. 30, 1975.
    Topic
    Painting, American
    Call number
    ND210 .H47X
    ND210.H47X
    Data Source
    Smithsonian Libraries
  • Making black Los Angeles : class, gender, and community, 1850-1917 / Marne L. Campbell

    Author
    Campbell, Marne L
    Physical description
    xiii, 285 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
    Type
    Books
    History
    Place
    California
    Los Angeles
    Los Angeles (Calif.)
    Date
    2016
    19th century
    20th century
    Contents
    Myths & origins : racial formation in Los Angeles -- Heaven ain't hard to find : the formation of the African American community -- Establishing and maintaining institutions -- The development of the underclass -- They were all filled with the Holy Ghost! : the early years of the Azusa Street revival -- Booker T. Washington goes west
    Summary
    "Black Los Angeles started small. The first census of the newly formed Los Angeles County in 1850 recorded only twelve Americans of African descent alongside a population of more than 3,500 Anglo Americans. Over the following seventy years, however, the African American founding families of Los Angeles forged a vibrant community within the increasingly segregated and stratified city. In this book, historian Marne L. Campbell examines the intersections of race, class, and gender to produce a social history of community formation and cultural expression in Los Angeles. Expanding on the traditional narrative of middle-class uplift, Campbell demonstrates that the black working class, largely through the efforts of women, fought to secure their own economic and social freedom by forging communal bonds with black elites and other communities of color. This women-led, black working-class agency and cross-racial community building, Campbell argues, was markedly more successful in Los Angeles than in any other region in the country. Drawing from an extensive database of all African American households between 1850 and 1910, Campbell vividly tells the story of how middle-class African Americans were able to live, work, and establish a community of their own in the growing city of Los Angeles."--Publisher's description.
    Topic
    African Americans--Social conditions
    Community life--History
    Race relations
    History
    Data Source
    Smithsonian Libraries
  • Americas : the changing face of Latin America and the Caribbean / Peter Winn

    Author
    Winn, Peter
    Physical description
    xv, 639 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm
    Type
    Books
    Place
    Latin America
    Caribbean Area
    Date
    1992
    C1992
    20th century
    1810-1945
    1945-
    Topic
    History
    Call number
    F1414.W56 1992X
    Data Source
    Smithsonian Libraries
  • The "writing" of modern life : the etching revival in France, Britain, and the U.S., 1850-1940 / Elizabeth Helsinger and others

    Author
    Helsinger, Elizabeth K. 1943-
    David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art
    Subject
    David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art
    Physical description
    viii, 101 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
    Type
    Exhibitions
    Exhibition catalogs
    Place
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Date
    2008
    19th century
    20th century
    Notes
    Catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, Nov. 18, 2008-Apr. 19, 2009.
    Contents
    Preface and acknowledgments -- The new language of etching in nineteenth-century England / Martha Tedeschi -- Seduced by the etcher's needle : French writers and the graphic arts in nineteenth-century France / Anna Arnar -- Toward a Gothic vision / Peyton Skipwith -- The "writing" of modern life / Elizabeth Helsinger -- Process, experimentation, and la belle "preuve" / Alison Morehead -- Catalogue entries on F'lix Bracquemond, the upper part of a door, and F'lix Buhot, a landing in England -- Catalogue entries / Eerin Nerstad -- Checklist of the exhibition
    Topic
    Etching
    Data Source
    Smithsonian Libraries
  • Light on darkness? : missionary photography of Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / T. Jack Thompson

    Author
    Thompson, T. Jack
    Physical description
    xviii, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
    Type
    Books
    Place
    Africa, Sub-Saharan
    Date
    2012
    19th century
    20th century
    Notes
    Reviewed by Paul S. Landau in Africa (London) 84 (2) May 2014, pages 344-345 (DT1.A1 A258 ANTH).
    Contents
    The beginnings of photography -- The photographer and the artist : visual representation on Livingstone's Zambezi expedition -- "Dr. Livingstone, I presume" : visual representations of Stanley's expedition to "find" Livingstone -- Creating an Africa for Africans? : Scottish missions in South Africa and Malawi -- The camera and the Congo : missionary photography and Leopold's atrocities -- Missionaries and the magic lantern -- New ways of seeing : radical missionaries and critical theories
    Topic
    Missions--History
    Photography--History
    Church history
    Data Source
    Smithsonian Libraries
  • Minerva J. Chapman : a retrospective exhibition : October 4 to November 15, 1971

    Author
    Chapman, Minerva J. 1858-1947
    Adams Davidson Galleries
    Subject
    Chapman, Minerva J. 1858-1947
    Physical description
    57 pages : illustrations (some color), portrait ; 26 cm
    Type
    Exhibitions
    Exhibition catalogs
    Place
    United States
    Date
    1971
    [1971]
    19th century
    20th century
    Topic
    Painting, American
    Landscape painting
    Call number
    N40.1.C465 A2
    N40.1.C465A2
    Data Source
    Smithsonian Libraries
  • Stony the road : Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow / Henry Louis Gates, Jr

    Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow
    author
    Gates, Henry Louis Jr.
    Physical description
    xxii, 296 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
    Type
    Books
    History
    Place
    United States
    Date
    2019
    1863-1877
    1877-1964
    19th century
    20th century
    Notes
    NMAFMAI copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment.
    Contents
    One. Antislavery/antislave -- Backlash : the white resistance to black Reconstruction -- Two. The Old Negro -- Race, science, literature, and the birth of Jim Crow -- Chains of being : the black body and the white mind -- Three. Framing blackness. Sambo art and the visual rhetoric of white supremacy -- The United States of race : mass-producing stereotypes and fear -- Four. The New Negro. Redeeming the race from the redeemers -- Reframing race : enter the New Negro
    Summary
    "A profound new rendering of the struggle by African Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counterrevolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring stain on the American mind. The story of the abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar one, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. But the century in between remains a mystery: If emancipation came in Lincoln's America, why was it necessary to march in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s America? In a history that moves from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance, Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of our leading chroniclers of the African American experience, brings a lifetime of wisdom to bear as a scholar, filmmaker, and public intellectual to answer that question. Interwoven with this history, Stony the Road examines America's first postwar clash of images utilizing modern mass media to divide, overwhelm--and resist. Enforcing a stark color line and ensuring the rollback of the rights of formerly enslaved people, racist images were reproduced on an unprecedented scale thanks to advances in technology such as chromolithography, which enabled their widespread dissemination in advertisements, on postcards, and on an astonishing array of everyday objects. Yet, during the same period when the Supreme Court stamped 'separate but equal' as the law of the land, African Americans advanced the concept of the 'New Negro' to renew the fight for Reconstruction's promise. Against the steepest of odds, they waged war by other means: countering depictions of black people as ignorant, debased, and inhuman with images of a vanguard of educated and upstanding black women and men who were talented, cosmopolitan, and urbane. The story Gates tells begins with Union victory in the Civil War and the liberation of nearly four million enslaved people. But the terror unleashed by white paramilitary groups in the former Confederacy, combined with deteriorating economic conditions and diminished Northern will, restored 'home rule' to the South. One of the most violent periods in our history followed the retreat from Reconstruction, with thousands of African Americans murdered or lynched and many more afflicted by the degrading impositions of Jim Crow segregation. An essential tour through one of America's fundamental historical tragedies, [this book] is also a story of heroic resistance, as figures from Frederick Douglass to W E. B. Du Bois created a counternarrative, and culture, inside the lion's mouth. Gates charts the noble struggle of black people to defeat racism and force the country to honor the 'new birth of freedom' that Lincoln pledged would be the legacy of the Civil War, and uncovers the roots of racism in our time. Understanding this bitter struggle is essential if America's deepest wounds are ever truly to heal."--Dust jacket.
    Topic
    African Americans--Segregation--History
    Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
    African Americans--History
    White supremacy movements--History
    Racism in popular culture--History
    Visual communication--Social aspects--History
    Race relations
    History
    Data Source
    Smithsonian Libraries
  • Impressionist and modern masters

    Kouros Galleries ... Perspectives
    Author
    Kouros Gallery
    Physical description
    [64] p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm
    Type
    Exhibitions
    Date
    1990
    1990?
    20th century
    19th century
    Notes
    Library copy was received in June 1990; Gallery Publications list on p. [64] ends with 1989.
    Topic
    Art, Modern
    Call number
    N6490 .I445 1990
    Data Source
    Smithsonian Libraries
  • From Hopper to Rothko : America's road to modern art / edited by Ortrud Westheider and Michael Phillip ; exhibition, Susan Behrends Frank ; with contributions by Susan Behrends Frank and 6 others

    editor
    Westheider, Ortrud
    Philipp, Michael 1962-
    writer of added text
    Frank, Susan Behrends
    host institution
    Museum Barberini (Potsdam, Germany)
    Subject
    Phillips, Duncan 1886-1966 Art patronage
    Phillips Collection
    Physical description
    247 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
    Type
    Exhibitions
    Exhibition catalogs
    Place
    United States
    Date
    2017
    19th century
    20th century
    Notes
    Catalog of an exhibition held at Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany, June 17-October 3, 2017.
    Summary
    This collection of rarely seen masterpieces from The Phillips Collection traces the development of American art from Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism. During the Gilded Age, American artists like Julian Alden Weir, John Henry Twachtman, Ernest Lawson, and others developed landscape paintings which set the course for modern art in America. Revelations such as these are common within the pages of this book, which examines Duncan Phillips's interest in collecting and his promotion of living artists. Including essays by European and American experts, this publication of 68 works by 50 artists presents paintings by Maurice Prendergast, Arthur Dove, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Charles Sheeler, Winslow Homer, Marsden Hartley, and Richard Diebenkorn. Together these magnificent works tell the tale of a nation and artistic expression growing in confidence and diversity. Exhibition: Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany (17.06.-03.10.2017).
    Topic
    Painting, American
    Modernism (Art)
    Data Source
    Smithsonian Libraries
  • Monet : a bridge to modernity / Anabelle Kienle Poňka ; with essays by Richard Thomson, Simon Kelly = Monet : un pont vers la modernité / Anabelle Kienle Poňka ; avec des essais de Richard Thomson, Simon Kelly

    Bridge to modernity
    author
    Poňka, Anabelle Kienle
    Author
    Monet, Claude 1840-1926
    writer of supplementary textual content
    Thomson, Richard 1953-
    Kelly, Simon (Simon R.)
    Author
    Monet, Claude 1840-1926 Paintings Selections
    Poňka, Anabelle Kienle Monet : a bridge to modernity
    Poňka, Anabelle Kienle Monet : a bridge to modernity French
    issuing body
    National Gallery of Canada
    Subject
    Monet, Claude 1840-1926
    Monet, Claude 1840-1926 Themes, motives
    Physical description
    101 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 x 31 cm
    Type
    Exhibitions
    Exhibition catalogs
    Utställningskataloger
    Date
    2015
    19th century
    20th century
    Notes
    "Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Monet : a bridge to modernity' organized by the National Gallery of Canada and presented in Ottawa from 30 October 2015 to 15 February 2016"--Title page verso.
    Contents
    Towards the modern landscape: Monet's Le pont de bois in context / Annabelle Kienle Poňka -- Reconstruction and reassurance in paintings: representing the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War / Richard Thomson -- "Great works of human industry": imaging the bridges of Paris, 1852-75 / Simon Kelly -- Chronology / Kiersten Appleyard
    Vers le paysage monderne: mise en contexte de l'oeuvre Le pont de bois de Monet / Annabelle Kienle Poňka -- Reconstruction et réconfort: les conséquences de la guerre franco-prussienne en images / Richard Thomson -- "Des grands travaux de l'industrie himaine": les ponts de Paris, de 1852 à 1875 / Simon Kelly
    Topic
    Bridges in art
    Impressionism (Art)
    Art, French
    Data Source
    Smithsonian Libraries
  • Baccarat / by Dany Sautot

    author
    Sautot, Dany
    Subject
    Compagnie des cristalleries de Baccarat History
    Physical description
    79 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
    Type
    Books
    History
    Place
    France
    Date
    1998
    19th century
    20th century
    Topic
    Crystal glass--History
    Data Source
    Smithsonian Libraries

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