Since the inception of photography in the early nineteenth century, photographs have been made, used, collected, and discarded in greatly increasing numbers. Despite the photograph's persistence in daily life, until...
In this inviting narrative, Bernard L. Herman welcomes readers into the communities, stories, and flavors that season a land where the distance from tide to tide is often less than five miles.
A Land and Life Remembered: Americo-Liberian Folk Architecture
Examining town planning, churches, forts, merchants' stores, state houses, and farm houses, this collection shows how the powerful visual language of architecture and design allowed the people of this era to maintain common cultural ...
This book invites readers into a growing, dynamic conversation among scholars and critics around a vibrant community of artists from an African American South.
"Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions. ... studying the interplay between physical construction ...
Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic gives proof to the insights architecture offers into who we are culturally as a community, a region, and a nation.
In this abundantly illustrated volume, Bernard Herman provides a history of urban dwellings and the people who built and lived in them in early America.
Town House: Architecture and Material Life in the Early American City, 1780-1830
This book offers the first in-depth critical treatment of Lockett's art, alongside sixty full-color plates of the artist's paintings and assemblages, shedding light on Lockett's career and work.
This abundantly illustrated volume provides an architectural and social history of urban dwellings and the people who built and lived in them in early America.
... Dial's works, “Dial didn't pass judgment on his new subjects, however, because to him everyone is part of'the Lord's ... history. 44. Folklorist and labor historian Brenda McCallum, who insightfully charts the intertwined links between ...
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Great and Mighty Things: Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 3-June 9, 2013"--T.p. verso.