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Death by Hogarth
In early modern England, public executions were as popular as pleasure gardens, fairs, and theater extravaganzas. The grisly entertainments were staged northwest of London at the three-sided gallows known as Tyburn. William Hogarth (1697-1764) fleshed out numerous prints with references to criminal culture and the dramatic rituals that accompanied executions. Given his interest in manners and urban life, it is no surprise that he peppered his prints with references to crime, execution and intricate plot lines. This catalogue includes three essays, 42 catalogue entries, index and bibliography. (Harvard University Art Museums)
Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800
Bringing together diverse scholars to represent the full historical breadth of the early modern period, and a wide range of disciplines (literature, women's studies, folklore, ethnomusicology, art history, media studies, the history of science, and history), Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800 offers an unprecedented perspective on the development and cultural practice of popular print in early modern Britain. Fifteen essays explore major issues raised by the broadside genre in the early modern period: the different methods by which contemporaries of the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries collected and "appreciated" such early modern popular forms; the preoccupation in the early modern period with news and especially monsters; the concomitant fascination with and representation of crime and the criminal subject; the technology and formal features of early modern broadside print together with its bearing on gender, class, and authority/authorship; and, finally, the nationalizing and internationalizing of popular culture through crossings against (and sometimes with) cultural Others in ballads and broadsides of the time.
Survive the Bomb
Attention, citizens and fellow travelers of the Cold War: Survive the Bomb is your familys ultimate fallout shelter companion. Keep this book at the ready next to the emergency drinking water and vacuum-packed canned meats and vegetables for that moment when the saber-rattling between the worlds superpowers turns Atomic. Here are all the tips and information youll need to keep your family safe and secure:· A convenient set of Civil Defense carrying cards for your wallet or purse· Steps for the home handyman toward building a well-furnished fallout shelter· How to convert your homes snack bar into a cozy secondary shelter· A checklist of items youll need close at hand while awai...
Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads
Broadside ballads-folio-sized publications containing verse, a tune indication, and woodcut imagery-related cautionary tales, current events, and simplified myth and history to a wide range of social classes across seventeenth century England. Ballads straddled, and destabilized, the categories of public and private performance spaces, the material and the ephemeral, music and text, and oral and written traditions. Sung by balladmongers in the streets and referenced in theatrical works, they were also pasted to the walls of local taverns and domestic spaces. They titillated and entertained, but also educated audiences on morality and gender hierarchies. Although contemporaneous writers publi...
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El Taller de Gráfica Popular
This catalogue accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art June 13-Sept. 13, 2015. It includes full-color images of every work in the exhibition and many supplementary works produced by the Mexican printmaking workshop, as well as essays by Deborah Caplow, Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell, Helga Prignitz-Poda, collector Michael T. Ricker, Arturo García Bustos and Pablo Méndez, each addressing a different aspect of the workshop. Catalogue entries provide more information on the individual works. It is the most comprehensive and most completely illustrated publication on the workshop and is an essential reference work as well as a handsome publication for the layperson. --! From publisher's description.
The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London
An in-depth study of the nineteenth-century London ballad-singer, a central figure in British cultural, social and political life.
Carleton Watkins
Issued in connection with an exhibition held Apr. 24-Aug. 17, 2014, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
