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Author : Edward Palmer Thompson
Release : 1983
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 675/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Visions of History by : Edward Palmer Thompson
Download or read book Visions of History written by Edward Palmer Thompson. This book was released on 1983. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jennifer D. Keene
Release : 2009-07-28
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 051/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Visions of America : A History of the United States, Myhistorylab, Pass Code by : Jennifer D. Keene
Download or read book Visions of America : A History of the United States, Myhistorylab, Pass Code written by Jennifer D. Keene. This book was released on 2009-07-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jaś Elsner
Release : 1999
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 207/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Voyages and Visions by : Jaś Elsner
Download or read book Voyages and Visions written by Jaś Elsner. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A much-needed contribution to the expanding interest in the history of travel and travel writing, Voyages and Visions is the first attempt to sketch a cultural history of travel from the sixteenth century to the present day. The essays address the theme of travel as a historical, literary and imaginative process, focusing on significant episodes and encounters in world history. The contributors to this collection include historians of art and of science, anthropologists, literary critics and mainstream cultural historians. Their essays encompass a challenging range of subjects, including the explorations of South America, India and Mexico; mountaineering in the Himalayas; space travel; science fiction; and American post-war travel fiction. Voyages and Visions is truly interdisciplinary, and essential reading for anyone interested in travel writing. With essays by Kasia Boddy, Michael Bravo, Peter Burke, Melissa Calaresu, Jesus Maria Carillo Castillo, Peter Hansen, Edward James, Nigel Leask, Joan-Pau Rubies and Wes Williams.
Author : Robert Hughes
Release : 1997
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 723/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis American Visions by : Robert Hughes
Download or read book American Visions written by Robert Hughes. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Hughes begins where American art itself began, with the Native Americans and the first Spanish invaders in the Southwest; he ends with the art of today. In between, in a scholarly text that crackles with wit, intelligence and insight, he tells the story of how American art developed. Hughes investigates the changing tastes of the American public; he explores the effects on art of America's landscape of unparalleled variety and richness; he examines the impact of the melting-pot of cultures that America has always been. Most of all he concentrates on the paintings and art objects themselves and on the men and women - from Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins to Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe, from Arthur Dove and George Bellows to Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko -awho created them. This is an uncompromising and refreshingly opinionated exploration of America, told through the lens of its art.
Author : Robert A. Rosenstone
Release : 1995
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 987/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Visions of the Past by : Robert A. Rosenstone
Download or read book Visions of the Past written by Robert A. Rosenstone. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosenstone investigates how a visual medium, subject to conventions of drama and fiction, might be used as a serious vehicle for thinking about our relationship with the past. Employing such films as Reds, JFK, and Sans Soleil, he considers issues like the rapport between fact and film and the documentary as visionary truth.
