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Violet Oakley

An Artist’s Life

By: Bailey Van Hook

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Violet Oakley: An Artist's Life is the first full-length biography of Violet Oakley (1874–1961), the only major female artist of the beaux-arts mural movement in the United States, as well as an illustrator, stained glass artist, portraitist and author. There is much human interest here: a pampered and spoiled young woman who suddenly finds herself in near poverty, forced to make a living in illustration to support her parents; a sensitive and idealistic young woman who, in a desperate attempt to save her neurasthenic father, embraces Christian Science, a religion derided by her family and friends; a 28 year old woman who receives one of the plum commissions of the era, a mural cycle in the Pennsylvania State Capitol, in a field dominated by much older and predominantly male artists; a woman in her forties who although professionally successful finds herself very much alone and bonds with her student, Edith Emerson; a friend of artists like dancer Ruth St. Denis and violinist Albert Spalding who nevertheless was supremely conscious of social mores, the “Miss Oakley” of the Social Register who preferred the company of upper class to bohemian society; the tireless self-promoter who traveled abroad to become the unofficial visual historian of the League of Nations yet who ironically was increasingly regarded as a local artist.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1611495865

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9781611495867

Angels of Art

Women and Art in American Society, 1876-1914

By: Bailey Van Hook

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Angels of Art

Women and Art in American Society, 1876-1914

By: Bailey Van Hook

Images of women were ubiquitous in America at the turn of the last century. In painting and sculpture, they took on a bewildering variety of identities, from Venus, Ariadne, and Diana to Law, Justice, the Arts, and Commerce. Bailey Van Hook argues here that the artists' concepts of art coincided with the construction of gender in American culture. She finds that certain characteristics such as &"ideal,&" &"beautiful,&" &"decorative,&" and &"pure&" both describe this art and define the perceived role of women in American society at the time. Most late nineteenth-century American artists had trained in Paris, where they learned to use female imagery as a pictorial language of provocative sensuality. Van Hook first places the American artists in an international context by discussing the works of their French teachers, including Jean-L&éon G&ér&ôme and Alexandre Cabanel. She goes on to explore why they soon had to distance themselves from that context, primarily because their art was perceived as either openly sensual or too obliquely foreign by American audiences. Van Hook delineates the modes of representation the American painters chose, which ranged from the more traditional allegorical or mythological subjects to a decorative figure painting indebted to Whistler. Changing American culture ultimately rejected these idealized female images as too genteel and, eventually, too academic and European. Angels of Art is the first study to discuss the predominance of images of women across stylistic boundaries and within the wider context of European art. It relies heavily on contemporary sources both to document critical responses and to find intersecting patterns in attitudes toward women and art.

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Penn State Press

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0271024798

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9780271024790

The Virgin & the Dynamo

Public Murals in American Architecture, 1893-1917

By: Bailey Van Hook

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The Virgin & the Dynamo

Public Murals in American Architecture, 1893-1917

By: Bailey Van Hook

Annotation The first book in almost a century to concentrate exclusively on the beaux-arts mural movement in the United States.

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Ohio University Press

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0821415018

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Violet Oakley

An Artist’s Life

By: Bailey Van Hook

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Ancient Letters and the New Testament

A Guide to Context and Exegesis

By: Hans-Josef Klauck,Daniel P. Bailey

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Ancient Letters and the New Testament

A Guide to Context and Exegesis

By: Hans-Josef Klauck,Daniel P. Bailey

This volume places the New Testament letters squarely in the middle of all the important letter corpora of antiquity. Chapters cover the basic letter formula, papyrus and postal delivery, non-literary and diplomatic correspondence, Greek and Latin literary letters, epistolary theory, letters in early Judaism, and all the letters of the New Testament. Part I of each chapter surveys each corpus, followed by detailed exegetical examples in Part II. Comprehensive bibliographies and 54 exercises with answers suit this guide to student and scholar alike."--Publisher's website.

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Baylor University Press

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1932792406

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Index to the Congressional Globe for the Second Session Forty-Second Congress

By: F. J. Rives,George A. Bailey

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Index to the Congressional Globe for the Second Session Forty-Second Congress

By: F. J. Rives,George A. Bailey

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382812320

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Angels of Art

Women and Art in American Society, 1876-1914

By: Bailey Van Hook

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Women and Art in American Society, 1876-1914

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The Virgin & the Dynamo

Public Murals in American Architecture, 1893-1917

By: Bailey Van Hook

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The Virgin & the Dynamo

Public Murals in American Architecture, 1893-1917

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Annotation The first book in almost a century to concentrate exclusively on the beaux-arts mural movement in the United States.

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Violet Oakley

Violet Oakley

Angels of Art

Angels of Art

The Virgin & the Dynamo

The Virgin & the Dynamo

Violet Oakley

Violet Oakley

Ancient Letters and the New Testament

Ancient Letters and the New Testament

Index to the Congressional Globe for the Second Session Forty-Second Congress

Index to the Congressional Globe for the Second Session Forty-Second Congress

Angels of Art

Angels of Art

The Virgin & the Dynamo

The Virgin & the Dynamo

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