Photographs of New York Interiors at the Turn of the Century

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131 rare photographs capture some of the most remarkable Victorian-Edwardian interiors ever created. Extraordinary furnished drawing rooms, dining rooms, studies, libraries, bedrooms, music rooms, kitchens and bathrooms in the homes of well-to-do New Yorkers recall turn-of-the-century charm.

New York Interiors at the Turn of the Century: 131 Photographs from the Byron Collection of the Museum of the City of New York

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New York Interiors at the Turn of the Century: 131 Photographs from the Byron Collection of the Museum of the City of New York
Joseph Byron , and Clay Lancaster
Manufacturer: Peter Smith Pub
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ASIN: 084465518X

Photographs Of New York Interiors At The Turn Of The Century From The Byron Collection Of The Museum Of The City Of New York

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Photographs Of New York Interiors At The Turn Of The Century From The Byron Collection Of The Museum Of The City Of New York
Joseph with text by Clay Lancaster Byron
Manufacturer: NY: Dover Publications Inc., (1976)
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ASIN: B000ROFNLA

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Brilliant!

BIG on promise, little on delivery: I just cannot learn from a book like this. It's written for some kind of ROBOT.

How to Draw People: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners with 10 Projects (How to Draw)
Susie Hodge
Manufacturer: New Holland
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 1845370503

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For most beginners, people are the most rewarding, yet the most difficult subject. But experienced artists know a variety of secrets and shortcuts which are revealed here by a popular art educator. Ten progressive step-by-step demonstrations turn a beginner into a practiced artist by emphasizing particular challenges such as proportion, posture, balance, and clothing, as well as the elusive facial expression qualities of personality and character. Each project matches a unique combination of subject and medium: young woman standing (charcoal); young man standing (soft pencils); people on holiday (pastel pencils); child sitting (pencil); girl dancing (charcoal and chalk); wedding group (range of pencils); children playing (pastel pencils); people in sepia (conté); people sitting (colored pencils); and family gathering (line and wash).

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Brilliant!.......2007-04-11

I have taught art for the last 20 years. I teach both 11-18 year olds and adults and bought this book because the most difficult area for beginners is learning to draw the human figure. Few other books manage to help beginners; they usually assume prior knowledge and understanding of the subject, but this book begins with basics, showing and explaining to readers how to look, see, understand shape, negative space, proportion, structure, tone, fabric folds and texture. At any point, readers can stop and either leave their drawings or carry on to extremely detailed finish. The variety of subjects and materials used are also refreshing and with every project, there is an alternative picture for readers to work from and an example of the original drawing in an alternative medium.

I wish I'd had this book when I was learning to draw, or at least over the last 20 years since I've been teaching. Many of my students of all ages and levels have responded brilliantly to this book and have improved speedily and well. I would recommend it to anyone and will certainly buy more books by this author.

BIG on promise, little on delivery: I just cannot learn from a book like this. It's written for some kind of ROBOT........2006-05-04

"How to Draw People" by Susie Hodge

I have learned by now, to sense an "alert" at certain key words found on the cover of drawing books, that indicate gimmicky advertising promises, and these kind of books never measure up to their purpose. Warning Words such as: "ultimate," or "complete-guide-to" or "absolute" and so forth. Good drawing books never use extreme claims. The Warning Word in "How to Draw People" is on the back cover:

"...the ESSENTIAL starting point for beginners who want to learn the basics and enjoy drawing."

So, with the word "ESSENTIAL," the author/publisher is telling us that this method is EXCLUSIVE of all other drawing methods. None of the other methods will work. Only this method. This method is the very ....ESSENCE.

The back cover goes on to clarify:

"10 practical demonstrations broken down into STEP-BY-STEP STAGES".

So much for how the publisher saw this book. Allow me to tell you how I saw it. On the page of each "step-by-step" lesson, I saw illustrations that I could never draw, but worse, 1/2 to 3/4ths of the lesson pages were full of wordy text, attempting to clarify what the author's illustrations could not teach.

On page 13 there are 2 illustrations of the SIMPLIFIED FIGURETTE, or BLOCK PUPPETS. Mind you now, that's 2 pictures, and NOT 2 pages full of pictures of the human figure image that most books use many times over to show the human figure sitting, standing, bending, and/or lying down. NOT a single SIMPLIFIED FIGURETTE is used to show any kind of human ACTION, or activity at all. No ball-throwing, no jumping, no kicking, no bending around, no punching. Nothing. Nada. Ninguno. Zip. This book is supposed to be ONLY about drawing PEOPLE and nothing else. But they are people who just sit or stand like posing for some photograph.

The author is limited to using only one single style of drawing. There are several styles or methods possible. Most drawing books show a little of each. For example, you can use blocks, or cubes, or triangles to roughly draw the human figures. You might use sticks, or even OVALS. Then there are Line Drawings, and Gesture Drawings. This author relies almost entirely on Line Drawings Only. So if you hope to get a broad or general view such as most beginner books teach, you will not find that here. The author's drawings are rather perfect. So if a beginner tries to draw perfect LINE DRAWINGS, and fails, how is that beginner going to feel? Just terrible. I know I would. That's a method of STEP-BY-STEP instruction that I call very hurtful to a BEGINNER.

This book is so strange, that it does not even mention drawing on ordinary NEWSPRINT [the common drawing paper that is the same stuff that newspapers are printed on] in the section on MATERIALS. I just reviewed another book today that says: "Newsprint is invaluable for sketching and preliminary work." Go figure.

Many BEGINNER artists are children. With all the wordy text on the lesson pages, this would not be an easy drawing book for children at all.

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From the 1890s onward, Edward S. Curtis took thousands of photographs of Native Americans all over the West. These were published (1907-1930) in twenty volumes of illustrated text and twenty portfolios of photographs; the project was supported by Theodore Roosevelt and funded in part by J. Pierpont Morgan, and spawned exhibitions, postcards, magazine articles, lecture series, a "musicale," and the very first narrative documentary film. Neither a eulogy to Curtis' achievement nor a debunking of it, this book is an honest study of the project as a collective whole.

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a great photographer.......2007-07-05

For those who have long admired Curtis' classic photos of Native Americans, but who have wondered to know more about Curtis himself, Gidley provides good background. He laboriously traces Curtis' life and habits. The prediliction for outdoors living is a constant theme of the book. Combined with his skills at photography. We see early experiences in studio photography. But Curtis seemed (luckily to history) to find that somewhat confining.

His subsequent travels throughout the American West brought his interests and talents into sharp focus. Letting him document what was believed to be a dying way of life. Which was perhaps largely true. Most of the natives in his photographs were no longer the plains nomads of American folklore.

This book does not reproduce many of Curtis' photos. Largely because you can find those elsewhere. Gidley concentrates on the details of his life.

Excellent work on Curtis.......2000-09-18

This is an excellent series of discussions of the many different aspects of E.S. Curtis and his photographic and ethnographic project on the North American Indian. I would highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in both background history of Curtis and his project, as well as an interesting interpretive perspective on Curtis and his work.

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Gives the best of Chaykin --.......2005-11-21

-- and some of the worst. So let's start positive.

What's best is his figures, and his fascination with 1940s style. OK, this is early `50s, but close enough. The style lets men look good, and lets women look better - curves were OK back then. More of the good comes from his narrative pace, but especially his framing. Somehow, every panel comes across as important, nothing is there just to fill a hole in the page. And any strip with a DC3 in it has some personal nostalgia for me.

The story is the kind that Chaykin does well, something bordering on film noir style, but with more daylight. Everyone has a layer of grime on them the just won't wash off. And the time of the story had its ugly points, too. Rosa Parks hadn't made her famous bus ride yet, and if someone was anti-semitic, "he didn't mean anything by it."

Even if his art is as good as ever, maybe better than some of his older, more angular look, the story wallows in the dark side. There are a few put-upon, likeable characters. There was the black secretary back when they weren't called blacks, and the hooker with a heart of gold, not that her heart was ever part of the deal. Everyone else, Our Hero included, just makes you glad to be someone else. It's good, but Chaykin has done better.

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Grotesquely Overpraised.......2005-07-29

I'd heard a lot of buzz about "American Century" for quite awhile and I finally decided to check it out, expecting great things. There's been a good deal of critical praise for this title floating about, and I have fond memories of Chaykin's work on the independent "American Flagg" (not related to this work) from back in the '80s. Imagine my crushing disappointment to discover that this book is bad, bad in so irredeemable a way that it would be a colossal struggle for it to claw its way up to being just mediocre.

Our "hero" is a grown-up amoral gun-running Holden Caulfield manque, smug in his self-righteousness, sneering at all the lesser people around him who are mired in soul-crushing conformity. That's why he has no choice but to stage an unlikely fake death in a plane crash (at the hands of the Air Force, no less), and drifts down to Central America to work for criminals in an unstable banana republic. Essentially he's in a stand-in for the real-world Guatemala during the U.S. Fruit Company-initiated overthrow of the government. It looks like Chaykin read something about this in a high school history book once and has never recovered from the monstrous injustice of it all. And so he subjects us to his version of this blight on America's past and makes certain that a few of the bad guys catch a round through the head.

As ever, the art is not at all shabby, and Chaykin remains one of your go-to guys if you need to see shapely women prancing about in lingerie. Of course, that's about the only vaguely positive thing about his female characters: for the most part, they're cheaters, thieves, liars, or outright hookers who would take up with anyone at all with a few pesos to spare, no matter how vile or murderous they might be.

This book is just so infuriating, preachy, pedantic, pandering, and bad all at the same time that I'm convinced that I must have received a defective copy, because I certainly didn't end up reading whatever it was that had the critics raving. Anti-heroes can be compelling, but the one in this title is just repellent and irritating. Avoid this book at all costs, and if you simply must have a Chaykin fix, pick up the "American Flagg" collection instead.

Could have been far better.......2004-01-18

A comic book exploring the early '50s from the standpoint of a nonconformist, featuring many historical people? The idea hooked me in. Unfortunately, after about six issues I stopped buying. Harry Kraft is a central character without either ideals or roguish charm, which what would be needed to make the series work. He's just a jerk. The last straw was when he says to the husband who who has just blown away his cheating wife (who was only minutes before was having sex with *Harry*) "You're a good man, Dave" or words to that effect. That was enough, I didn't buy any more.
Oh, and I think Jerry Lewis has a slander case against the authors.

A fine start..........2001-11-08

Scars & Stripes contains issues 1 through 4 (the first story arc) from the Vertigo title, American Century. The first issue alone is worth the price of the book, as it sets up Harry's wandering ways. Imagine a character similiar to Indiana Jones that leans more towards an anti-hero. That is Harry. Love the artwork from Marc Lamning! 'Pulp' definitely is the best way to describe this series. The future for this title is bright. Definitely for adults.

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Fiction writer, journalist, and essayist, Lillie Devereux Blake (1833-1913) published seven novels, two collections of stories and essays, and hundreds of other pieces during her lifetime. She also played a major role in the struggle for women's rights, eventually becoming Elizabeth Cady Stanton's candidate to succeed Susan B. Anthony as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

Yet for all her remarkable accomplishments, Lillie Blake's story has been all but forgotten. As Grace Farrell reveals in this richly textured biography, Blake's creative writings did not survive the canonical purges of women authors at the turn of the twentieth century, and her contributions to the suffrage movement were simply ignored in the official histories sanctioned by Susan B. Anthony. From the traces that remain, Farrell reconstructs an extraordinary life of passion and purpose. She chronicles Blake's literary career from Civil War correspondent to novelist and provides an inside view of suffrage politics, correcting some long-held misconceptions perpetuated by Anthony and her supporters.

At the same time, Farrell expands the generic boundaries of biography by recounting not only a life and the causes of its erasure but also her own process of recovering that life. She brings the reader along with her as she follows Blake's path in the world, touches her diary, reads her letters, and campaigns to prevent Yale University from demolishing Blake's childhood home in New Haven.

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Highlights the need for purchasing to be seen as a underlying business process and not a specific function.

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Loooooooooved it!.......2002-01-27

I teach a preschool class of five 2-year-olds. Needless to say, I have used every activity in this book! I hesitated to stuff socks with newspaper but, "Harry" is the favorite toy. Great ideas with sound developmental pacing. I can't wait for them to turn three so I can get the next book.

A great book!.......2001-06-05

A friend of mine gave me this book when my son turned three. As a teacher and parent, I have found this book to be very helpful. There are activties for each month of the year. All of the activities that I have tried have been a huge success. From fingerpainting, to sorting and matching, to talking about the seasons, I have not only enjoyed playing with my son, but he has learned new skills from these activities. I also appreciate that the craft projects are easy to figure out and require materials that I already have in the house! A great book for anyone looking for fun and creative activities to do with their child.

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"Race relations" are a controversial topic in today's Germany. Have Germans learned from the past? How far back must one go to understand the tensions, prejudices, and strategies that have marked race relations in the recently unified nation? The Imperialist Imagination explores the German preoccupation with racial and ethnic differences throughout the past two centuries, in a colonial and "postcolonial" context.

Germany's belated national unification in 1870, its short colonial period (1884-1918), and the loss of its colonies as a consequence of World War I, rather than through wars of liberation, generated very different colonial and postcolonial conditions from those in Britain and France. This volume's sixteen essays investigate how, as a consequence of these conditions, Germans imagined their relationship to racial and ethnic others: how they supported and contested colonization during the colonial period, how their colonial fantasies fed into the Nazis' racial and expansionary policies after the loss of German colonies, and how they represent their relationship to German minorities and "foreigners" within and outside Germany today.

The contributors include scholars in literature, history, art history, political science, philosophy, ethnography, film, popular culture, photography, and theater. The anthology will appeal not only to Germanists but to all those interested in postcolonial and cultural studies.

Sara Friedrichsmeyer is Professor of German, University of Cincinnati. Sara Lennox is Professor of German, University of Massachusetts. Susanne Zantop is Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College.

Science, Colonialism and Ireland (Irish Cultural Studies)

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Science, Colonialism and Ireland (Irish Cultural Studies)
Nicholas Whyte
Manufacturer: Cork University Press
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ASIN: 1859181848

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Looking at the activities of Irish scientists between 1890 and 1930, at the very moment of independence, revolution and civil war, this book demonstrates how the activities of science are shaped by the society in which it is situated. The different fates of the Royal Dublin Society, Trinity College, the Royal College of Science, the Royal Irish Academy, and the National University show the decisive impact which political events had on Irish science and on individual scientists in Ireland.

The issue of colonialism, though "proved" in the areas of literature and culture, is not easily resolved with regard to science. Using case studies - the Atlantic slope crustacea, the Tyrone trilobite and the Wright foraminifera - and research on other â€~colonialâ€™ or â€~imperialâ€™ sciences, Whyte demonstrates the complex relationship between imperial and Irish science.

The other major question revolves around the Catholic churchâ€™s restrictions on the practice of scientific research. Whyte contends that there is very little evidence to show that this was the case in nineteenth- or twentieth-century Ireland.

"Science, Colonialism and Ireland"will become the defining study of the history of science in Ireland

Understanding Northern Ireland: Colonialism, Control and Consociation

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Understanding Northern Ireland: Colonialism, Control and Consociation
Brendan O'Leary
Manufacturer: Routledge
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New Perspectives on Ireland: Colonialism & Identity: Selected Papers from the Desmond Greaves Summer School and Related Essays

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New Perspectives on Ireland: Colonialism & Identity: Selected Papers from the Desmond Greaves Summer School and Related Essays

Manufacturer: Leirmheas
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