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William S. Rice
Author Ellen Treseder Sexauer, Rice's granddaughter, presents a synthesis of scholarly and uniquely personal perspectives, examining the artist's development, artistic methods, and private life. Insightful passages from interviews with Roberta Rice Treseder, Rice's daughter, and illuminating excerpts from Rice's own published articles and books provide an intimate portrait of Rice as artist, naturalist, teacher, writer, and father.
William S. Rice
William Seltzer Rice (American, 1873-1963) was a young artist of twenty-seven when he stepped off a train in Stockton, California, in 1900; he had left his home in Pennsylvania to take the job of assistant art supervisor for the Stockton public schools. California became not only his lifelong home but also his muse, inspiring a prolific career in art. Rice soon moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where the region's Arts and Crafts movement was flowering. He was talented in several mediums, but block printing ultimately became his favorite, for it gave him the opportunity to combine draftsmanship, carving, and printing. California's flora, fauna, and landscapes-from the Sierra Nevada to the ...
Seamus Heaney
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Langston Hughes, Poet of His People
A biography of the black poet whose poems were influenced greatly by jazz and blues rhythms.
Art and the Crisis of Marriage
Between the two world wars, middle-class America experienced a "marriage crisis" that filled the pages of the popular press. Divorce rates were rising, birthrates falling, and women were entering the increasingly industrialized and urbanized workforce in larger numbers than ever before, while Victorian morals and manners began to break down in the wake of the first sexual revolution. Vivien Green Fryd argues that this crisis played a crucial role in the lives and works of two of America's most familiar and beloved artists, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) and Edward Hopper (1882-1967). Combining biographical study of their marriages with formal and iconographical analysis of their works, Fryd sh...
Gender on the Divide
Taking issue with a substantial body of criticism predicated upon the differences between men and women, Feldman reinterprets modernism. She traces the influence of the dandy, as depicted by the 19th-century French writers Theophile Gautier, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, and Charles Baudelaire, on the work of the three 20th-century writers, Willa Cather, Wallace Stevens, and Vladimir Nabokov. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Public Art of Robert Dafford
The Public Art of Robert Dafford provides a vivid depiction of the renowned artist's work through text and images by acclaimed photographer Philip Gould. Dafford is one of the most prolific and successful American muralists working today, with over 350 large scale public works in the United States and overseas. His work has garnered numerous awards--including the Bronze Medaille d'Honneur de la Suresnes, France, and an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Shawnee State University (Portsmouth, Ohio)--and has been featured in Smithsonian, National Geographic, Southern Living, the New York Times, the Seattle Times, the Los Angeles Time, the Ottawa Sun, and Le Droit. The Public Art of Robert Dafford focuses on murals painted along the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys and puts his work into the context of the towns surrounding the murals.
Margaret Fuller
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Behold the Day
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