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c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 3
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An introduction to the role of artists and the arts during one of the most difficult periods in United States history. The paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, literature, drama, films, and music created by Americans between 1929 and 1941 were vital to expressing the varied and discouraging experiences of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. For grades 6-9.
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Pub. Date
1993
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AIDS is moving through every corner of the American landscape with frightening speed and force, but its presence is perhaps most deeply felt in the arts community, where it is having a shaping influence on the kind of work being produced. In this searingly powerful, daring, vitally important work from the front lines of the crisis, Andrea Vaucher explores, for the first time, the impact of AIDS on the work of artists who have tested HIV-positive themselves,...
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Pub. Date
2011
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Published in conjunction with a 2011 exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, this volume celebrates the energetic waves of 19th-century-American ingenuity in a variety of cultural endeavors. Perry, who initiated and curated the exhibition, begins with Charles Wilson Peale's famous Philadelphia museum--the first American "Hall of Wonders." She then discusses democracy, Niagara Falls, the buffalo, trains, and big trees, among other topics--all...
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Pub. Date
2000
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"From the late twenties to the early fifties, photographer George Platt Lynes, painter Paul Cadmus, and critic Lincoln Kirstein jointly and separately were among the most influential figures in the burgeoning art scene. Centered in New York City, they helped create and define the esthetic and the institutions of the American art world and had an enormous impact around the world. With an overlapping circle of friends, lovers, collaborators, and models,...
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