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Searching for America : essays on art and architecture / edited by Robert Sheardy Jr. ; with an introductory essay by David Sokol.
- Title
- Searching for America : essays on art and architecture / edited by Robert Sheardy Jr. ; with an introductory essay by David Sokol.
- Publication
- Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2006.
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- Description
- xii, 208 p. : ill., map; 22 cm.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Note
- " ... presented as papers at the 2006 annual conference for the Art and Architecture Area of the American Culture Association."--P. [xi].
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-200) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : what is American art? / David Sokol -- Shaping American aesthetics : art notes from The ladies repository / Marleen Hoover -- The influence of architecture in Henry James's The Bostonians / Jennifer Eimers -- The Rubaiyat project : the illustrations of Elihu Vedder / Robert Sheardy, Jr. -- Dressing up : Robert Henri's portrait of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney / Alexis L. Boylan -- The search for a usable past : George Luks' Faneuil Hall, Boston, 1923 / Robert Gambone -- The work of Morris Topchevsky : landscapes as visual narratives of social activism / Donna S. Korey and Amy K. Galpin -- Cinderella meets a prince : 30s art magazines transformed / Alice Goldfarb Marquis -- The beautiful side of ugly : murals, social work, education and incarceration : models towards change / Ella Turenne -- Art, politics, and terror in DeLillo's Mao II and Warhol's Death and disaster series / Amy Fenstermaker -- Flesh, mud, and floors : Georges Bataille's The big toe and Ana Mendieta's earthworkds / Maria Eugenia Achurra -- Louis I. Kahn's travels : a source of his philosophy of architecture / Junko Tsuchida -- Light as the definer of spaces in the Kimbell Art Museum / Mohammad Garipour and Christopher N. Dochney -- Issues and trends in the transformation of marginal linear urban spaces / Alex Bitterman -- Realizing and rationalizing Central Park's gates / Dean Turner.
- ISBN
- 1847180817
- 9781847180810
- OCLC
- 169582761
- SCSB-10269609
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library