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Author : Philippa Hobbs
Release : 2014
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Book Synopsis Listening to Distant Thunder by : Philippa Hobbs
Download or read book Listening to Distant Thunder written by Philippa Hobbs. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philippa Hobbs
Release : 2014-10-15
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Listening to Distant Thunder by : Philippa Hobbs
Download or read book Listening to Distant Thunder written by Philippa Hobbs. This book was released on 2014-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published by the Standard Bank as part of a curated exhibition in May 2011, this prestigious volume celebrates the life and works of Peter Clarke (1929–2014), one of South Africa’s foremost artists. A mere 500 copies were originally published, all taken up at the exhibition, and continued demand has led to its re-release. Clarke left his job as a dockworker in Simon’s Town to devote himself to art. The wisdom of this decision is reflected in a remarkable career, which extended over some six decades and was acknowledged in the awards of the Order of Ikhamanga (silver) in 2005 and a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010. Listening to distant thunder: The art of Peter Clarke recounts an artist’s life in the context of the social history of South Africa from the 1940s onwards. His images reflect the social disruption of the Cape Flats, and the trauma of his community’s forced removal from Simon’s Town to the bleak apartheid township of Ocean View. Yet Clarke’s images have avoided bitterness, and his work is a perceptive scrutiny and celebration of life in all its aspects. Illustrated with over 200 reproductions and photographs, this book was researched and written by well-known South African art historians Philippa Hobbs and Elizabeth Rankin, in close collaboration with the artist over almost seven years.
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Release : 1973
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Author : Jan Drexler
Release : 2018-09-18
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Sound of Distant Thunder (The Amish of Weaver's Creek Book #1) by : Jan Drexler
Download or read book The Sound of Distant Thunder (The Amish of Weaver's Creek Book #1) written by Jan Drexler. This book was released on 2018-09-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katie Stuckey and Jonas Weaver are both romantics. Seventeen-year-old Katie is starry-eyed, in love with the idea of being in love, and does not want to wait to marry Jonas until she is eighteen, despite her parents' insistence. So much can happen in a year. Twenty-year-old Jonas is taken in by the romance of soldiering, especially in defense of anti-slavery, even though he knows war is at odds with the teachings of the church. When his married brother's name comes up in the draft list, he volunteers to take his brother's place. But can the commitment Katie and Jonas have made to each other survive the separation? From the talented pen of Jan Drexler comes this brand new Amish series set against the backdrop of the Civil War. She puts her characters to the test as they struggle to reconcile their convictions and desires while the national conflict threatens to undermine and engulf their community.
Author : Mark M. Smith
Release : 2015-12-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Listening to Nineteenth-Century America by : Mark M. Smith
Download or read book Listening to Nineteenth-Century America written by Mark M. Smith. This book was released on 2015-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing for the importance of the aural dimension of history, Mark M. Smith contends that to understand what it meant to be northern or southern, slave or free--to understand sectionalism and the attitudes toward modernity that led to the Civil War--we must consider how antebellum Americans comprehended the sounds and silences they heard. Smith explores how northerners and southerners perceived the sounds associated with antebellum developments including the market revolution, industrialization, westward expansion, and abolitionism. In northern modernization, southern slaveholders heard the noise of the mob, the din of industrialism, and threats to what they considered their quiet, orderly way of life; in southern slavery, northern abolitionists and capitalists heard the screams of enslaved labor, the silence of oppression, and signals of premodernity that threatened their vision of the American future. Sectional consciousness was profoundly influenced by the sounds people attributed to their regions. And as sectionalism hardened into fierce antagonism, it propelled the nation toward its most earsplitting conflict, the Civil War.
