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Vernacular Visionaries
Outsider Art is a name for the often mesmerizing creations of those who live and work at a distance from prevailing notions about mainstream artistic trends, individuals who are frequently unaware of themselves as artists or their works as art. This book presents and discusses some of the 20th century's most significant examples of Outsider Art. artists from around the world, including Gedewon, a cleric from Ethiopia who made unique and psychedelic talismans; William Hawkins, an African-American self-taught artist with a unique pop sensibility; the Mexican artist Martin Ramirez, creator of large-scale works that tell tales of mestizo life; Nek Chand Saini, whose Rock Garden in India is a lea...
A Gathering of Metcalf's
"The purpose of this work is to produce as accurate as possible genealogy report centering on our Grandparents William S. Metcalf and Lida Budgett."--Page vii.
The Temptation
Why, beginning in the late 1960s, did expressive objects made by poor people come to be regarded as "twentieth-century folk art," increasingly sought after by the middle class and the wealthy? Julia Ardery explores that question through the life story of
Ray Gun
Toy ray guns conjure a wealth of meanings & associations. Their outlandish shapes & fanciful colors evoke fond childhood memories of Buck Rogers & Captain Video, of backyard spaceships that blasted off for the endless reaches of space. Toy ray guns are intended to protect us from our deepest fears of the dark unknown. The first toy ray guns were produced in the 1930s, part of the Buck Rogers craze that swept the U.S. This volume provides an intro. to the development of these toys, with vivid color photos of ray guns & their ephemera, such as ads, movie posters, comics, badges & buttons, up to the 1970s, when the toy space guns made in America, Europe & Japan were replaced by high-tech electronic ray guns made in China.
Victoria Crosses on the Western Front – Battles of the Scarpe 1918 and Drocourt-Queant Line
In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He resolved to find out. In 1988, in the midst of his army career, research for this book commenced and over the years numerous sources have been consulted. Victoria Crosses on the Western Front: Battles of the Scarpe & Drocourt- Quéant Line, is designed for the battlefield visitor as much as the armchair reader. A thorough account of each VC action is set within the wider strategic and tactical context. Detailed sketch maps show the area today, together with the battle-lines and movements of the combatants. It will allow visitors to stand upon the spo...
American Studies
This volume supplements the acclaimed three volume set published in 1986 and consists of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1984 and 1988. There are more than 6,000 descriptive entries in a wide range of categories: anthropology and folklore, art and architecture, history, literature, music, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, science and technology, and sociology.
Annual Report of the Attorney General of the State of New York
Includes a section called Opinions of the Attorney General.
