American Visions

American Visions
Author: Robert Hughes
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 635
Release: 1997
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781860463723

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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.

New Visions for Metropolitan America

New Visions for Metropolitan America
Author: Anthony Downs
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2001-06-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0815723091

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In this volume, the author analyzes the problems of urban America and presents economically sound alternatives to guide the growth and development of metropolitan areas without increasing traffic congestion and air pollution; endlessly raising taxes, or sacrificing the availability of affordable housing. Copublished with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Transporting Visions

Transporting Visions
Author: Jennifer L. Roberts
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2014-01-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0520251849

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"Published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation."

A Culture of Conspiracy

A Culture of Conspiracy
Author: Michael Barkun
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2003
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780520248120

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Unravelling the genealogies and permutations of conspiracist worldviews, this work shows how this web of urban legends has spread among sub-cultures on the Internet and through mass media, and how this phenomenon relates to larger changes in American culture.

Visions of War

Visions of War
Author: David D. Perlmutter
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2014-05-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1466872500

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Visions of War provides a historical survey, an anatomy, an interpretation, and a polemic about the ways human beings have created pictures of battle and conflict from the Stone Age to the Gulf War. From the dawn of time to the present, from the days of mammoth hunting to the era of Scud-busting, pictures of war constitute the most persistent genre of images human beings have created. In fact, human beings are the only creatures who engage in these two activities--organized violence and the making of pictorial images--and the author shows how both art and war emerge from the same source: the hunter's eye. David D. Perlmutter's Visions of War explores and analyzes the thirteen thousand-year legacy of pictures of war from various cultures over the centuries, from the Stone Age cave paintings and monumental sculpture of the ancient Near East to the art of the classical period and the Middle Ages, from pre-contact Mesoamerican imagery to Napoleonic propaganda and totalitarian art and on to the instantaneous images of the Gulf War.

Yes Means Yes!

Yes Means Yes!
Author: Jaclyn Friedman
Publisher: Seal Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2019-03-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 158005899X

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This groundbreaking feminist classic dismantles the way we view rape in our culture and replaces it with a genuine understanding and respect for female sexual pleasure. In the original edition, feminist, political, and activist writers alike presented their ideas for a paradigm shift from the "No Means No" model--and the result was the groundbreaking shift to today's affirmative consent model ("Yes Means Yes," as coined by this book). With a timely new introduction, refreshed cover, and the timeless contributions of authors from Kate Harding to Jill Filipovic, Yes Means Yes brings to the table a dazzling variety of perspectives and experiences focused on the theory that educating all people to value female sexuality and pleasure leads to viewing women differently, and ending rape. Yes Means Yes has radical and far-reaching effects: from teaching men to treat women as collaborators and not conquests, encouraging men and women that women can enjoy sex instead of being shamed for it, and ultimately, that our children can inherit a world where rape is rare and swiftly punished.

Early Visions and Representations of America

Early Visions and Representations of America
Author: M. Carmen Gomez-Galisteo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2012-11-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1441195947

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When the Europeans first arrived in America, they had a number of preconceptions, prejudices, expectations and hopes about what life in the New World would be like. This book examines the different visions and representations of America conveyed in the writings of Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and the Pilgrim leader William Bradford, taking both writers within their respective literary and historical contexts. Anthologies of American literature have consistently ignored Spanish-language achievements on the grounds of a restrictive interpretation of American literature based on linguistic boundaries. Consequently, Spanish-language texts such as Cabeza de Vaca's or the account by the Hidalgo de Elvas, to name but two examples, have been marginalized in the narrative of American literary history. In seeking to redress this neglect, Galisteo contributes to scholarship which seeks to analyze Early America as a whole, including not only Anglo American perspectives but also the Spanish American aspect of the colonization process.

Storm of Visions

Storm of Visions
Author: Christina Dodd
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2009-08-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781101105306

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First in a new back-to- back series from the New York Times bestselling author Hailed as "a star in any genre,"(New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward) Christina Dodd delivers an exciting new paranormal romance that introduces The Seven, a secret society created to combat evil in all its deadly forms...

Dylan's Visions of Sin

Dylan's Visions of Sin
Author: Christopher Ricks
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2005-07-26
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0060599243

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