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The Scrapbook in American Life

2006 Crafts & Hobbies
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Release : 2006
Genre : Crafts & Hobbies
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Book Rating : 786/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Scrapbook in American Life by : Susan Tucker

Download or read book The Scrapbook in American Life written by Susan Tucker. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the history of scrapbook-making, its origins, uses, changing forms and purposes as well as the human agents behind the books themselves. Scrapbooks bring pleasure in both the making and consuming - and are one of the most enduring yet simultaneously changing cultural forms of the last two centuries. Despite the popularity of scrapbooks, no one has placed them within historical traditions until now. This volume considers the makers, their artefacts, And The viewers within the context of American culture. The volume's contributors do not show the reader how to make scrapbooks or improve techniques but instead explore the curious history of what others have done in the past and why these splendid examples of material and visual culture have such a significant place in many households.

Writing with Scissors

2012-11-02 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2012-11-02
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Writing with Scissors by : Ellen Gruber Garvey

Download or read book Writing with Scissors written by Ellen Gruber Garvey. This book was released on 2012-11-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men and women 150 years ago grappled with information overload by making scrapbooks-the ancestors of Google and blogging. From Abraham Lincoln to Susan B. Anthony, African American janitors to farmwomen, abolitionists to Confederates, people cut out and pasted down their reading. Writing with Scissors opens a new window into the feelings and thoughts of ordinary and extraordinary Americans. Like us, nineteenth-century readers spoke back to the media, and treasured what mattered to them. In this groundbreaking book, Ellen Gruber Garvey reveals a previously unexplored layer of American popular culture, where the proliferating cheap press touched the lives of activists and mourning parents, and all who yearned for a place in history. Scrapbook makers documented their feelings about momentous public events such as living through the Civil War, mediated through the newspapers. African Americans and women's rights activists collected, concentrated, and critiqued accounts from a press that they did not control to create "unwritten histories" in books they wrote with scissors. Whether scrapbook makers pasted their clippings into blank books, sermon collections, or the pre-gummed scrapbook that Mark Twain invented, they claimed ownership of their reading. They created their own democratic archives. Writing with Scissors argues that people have long had a strong personal relationship to media. Like newspaper editors who enthusiastically "scissorized" and reprinted attractive items from other newspapers, scrapbook makers passed their reading along to family and community. This book explains how their scrapbooks underlie our present-day ways of thinking about information, news, and what we do with it.

Some of My Lives

2011-10-11 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2011-10-11
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Some of My Lives by : Rosamond Bernier

Download or read book Some of My Lives written by Rosamond Bernier. This book was released on 2011-10-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosamond Bernier has lived an unusually full life—remarkable for its vividness and diversity of experience—and she has known many (one is tempted to say all) of the greatest artists and composers of the twentieth century. In Some of My Lives, Bernier has made a kind of literary scrapbook from an extraordinary array of writings, ranging from diary entries to her many contributions to the art journal L'OEIL, which she cofounded in 1955. The result is a multifaceted self-portrait of a life informed and surrounded by the arts. Through the stories of her encounters with some of the twentieth century's great artists and composers—including Pablo Picasso, Leonard Bernstein, Max Ernst, Aaron Copeland, Malcolm Lowry, and Karl Lagerfeld—we come to understand the sheer richness of Bernier's experiences, interactions, and memories. The result is pithy, hilarious, and wise—a richly rewarding chronicle of many lives fully lived.

The Scrapbook Memoirs of an African-American Artist

2017-11-13 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2017-11-13
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Scrapbook Memoirs of an African-American Artist by : Debbie Bell Jarratt

Download or read book The Scrapbook Memoirs of an African-American Artist written by Debbie Bell Jarratt. This book was released on 2017-11-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is the illustrated story, laced with portrait vignettes of my American family, and my life as a creative artist. I have filled these memoirs with a retrospective of my art; pleasant ephemera, family papers, genealogies, love stories, newspaper clippings, church history, scripture and vintage photographs, presented in a scrapbook format."--Page 1.

Lucy & Desi

2004-10-13 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2004-10-13
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Lucy & Desi by : Elizabeth Edwards

Download or read book Lucy & Desi written by Elizabeth Edwards. This book was released on 2004-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During their marriage, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz filled over 100 scrapbooks with all manner of memorabilia. Now fans can take a rare peek at the details of the famous TV couple's lives with this fantastic replica composite. Lucy & Desi, our exclusive, real-life scrapbook of the couple's lives, contains 25 interactive, three-dimensional paper-engineered replicas of actual items—from Desi's report card to important telegrams—which have never been published before. Vintage snapshots of happy family moments, touching love letters, passports, and other precious minutiae, with more than 150 photographs, both black-and-white and color, fill this wonderful, engrossing look back at the golden years of television comedy, when Lucy and Desi charmed America with humor and song. This official scrapbook is a must-have for the millions of devoted fans.

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