[PDF] American Artists Sale eBook

Author : Fifth Avenue Art Galleries
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 30,92 MB
Release : 2017-10-28
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781528514095

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Excerpt from Catalogue of the Fourth Annual Sale of Paintings by American Artists: To Be Sold by Auction Tuesday and Wednesday Evenings, January 28th and 29th, at Eight O'clock Upon failure to comply with the above conditions the money deposited in part payment shall be forfeited all Lots uncleared within t e time aforesaid shall be te-sold b public or private Sale, without further notice. And the e ciency (if any) attending such re-sale, shall be made good by the defaulter at this Sale, together with all charges attending the same. This condition is with out prejudice to the right of the Auctioneer to enforce the Contract made at this Sale, without such re-sale, it he thinks fit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Hannah Crafts
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 36,15 MB
Release : 2002-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0759527644

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Possibly the first novel written by a black woman slave, this work is both a historically important literary event and a gripping autobiographical story in its own right. When her master is betrothed to a woman who conceals a tragic secret, Hannah Crafts, a young slave on a wealthy North Carolina plantation, runs away in a bid for her freedom up North. Pursued by slave hunters, imprisoned by a mysterious and cruel captor, held by sympathetic strangers, and forced to serve a demanding new mistress, she finally makes her way to freedom in New Jersey. Her compelling story provides a fascinating view of American life in the mid-1800s and the literary conventions of the time. Written in the 1850's by a runaway slave, THE BONDSWOMAN'S NARRATIVE is a provocative literary landmark and a significant historical event that will captivate a diverse audience.

Author : Maurie D. McInnis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,18 MB
Release : 2011-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226559335

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In 1853, Eyre Crowe, a young British artist, visited a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia. Harrowed by what he witnessed, he captured the scene in sketches that he would later develop into a series of illustrations and paintings, including the culminating painting, Slaves Waiting for Sale, Richmond, Virginia. This innovative book uses Crowe’s paintings to explore the texture of the slave trade in Richmond, Charleston, and New Orleans, the evolving iconography of abolitionist art, and the role of visual culture in the transatlantic world of abolitionism. Tracing Crowe’s trajectory from Richmond across the American South and back to London—where his paintings were exhibited just a few weeks after the start of the Civil War—Maurie D. McInnis illuminates not only how his abolitionist art was inspired and made, but also how it influenced the international public’s grasp of slavery in America. With almost 140 illustrations, Slaves Waiting for Sale brings a fresh perspective to the American slave trade and abolitionism as we enter the sesquicentennial of the Civil War.

Author : W. Jackson Rushing III
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 17,37 MB
Release : 2013-09-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 1136180036

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This illuminating and provocative book is the first anthology devoted to Twentieth Century Native American and First Nation art. Native American Art brings together anthropologists, art historians, curators, critics and distinguished Native artists to discuss pottery, painitng, sculpture, printmaking, photography and performance art by some of the most celebrated Native American and Canadian First Nation artists of our time The contributors use new theoretical and critical approaches to address key issues for Native American art, including symbolism and spirituality, the role of patronage and musuem practices, the politics of art criticism and the aesthetic power of indigenous knowledge. The artist contributors, who represent several Native nations - including Cherokee, Lakota, Plains Cree, and those of the PLateau country - emphasise the importance of traditional stories, myhtologies and ceremonies in the production of comtemporary art. Within great poignancy, thye write about recent art in terms of home, homeland and aboriginal sovereignty Tracing the continued resistance of Native artists to dominant orthodoxies of the art market and art history, Native American Art in the Twentieth Century argues forcefully for Native art's place in modern art history.