Fred Orton's Books

Figuring Jasper Johns

By: Fred Orton

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The author begins this challenging monograph by probing Modernism's surfaces and subjects, its public and private meanings, in order to establish Johns's importance as the modern allegorical artist in the years after Abstract Expressionism. Yet, Figuring Jasper Johns is not an essay that presumes to offer an instant interpretation. Rather, Fred Orton self-consciously constructs a "Jasper Johns" whose work is introduced and explained in three chapters, each of which addresses a specific picture or sculpture like Flag, Painted Bronze (Savarin) and Untitled 1992. These in-depth studies situate individual works in their social context as well as in Johns's oeuvre. Fred Orton's purpose is to get to terms with and find terms for a difficult and elusive body of work by one of the most important artists of the 20th century.

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254

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Reaktion Books

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ISBN 10

0948462582

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9780948462580

Aesthetic Thinking: Essays on Intention, Painting, Action, and Ideology

By: Fred Orton

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Aesthetic Thinking: Essays on Intention, Painting, Action, and Ideology

By: Fred Orton

Aesthetic Thinking: Essays on Intention, Painting, Action, and Ideology anthologises some of Fred Orton’s important contributions to rethinking the social history of art and art practice. More than that, it offers a vivid demonstration of how theory can generate new interpretations and unsettle old ones.

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218

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BRILL

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9004503331

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9789004503335

Murdering the President

Alexander Graham Bell and the Race to Save James Garfield

By: Fred Rosen

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Murdering the President

Alexander Graham Bell and the Race to Save James Garfield

By: Fred Rosen

Shortly after being elected president of the United States, James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau. But contrary to what is written in most history books, Garfield didn’t linger and die. He survived. Alexander Graham Bell raced against time to invent the world’s first metal detector to locate the bullet in Garfield’s body so that doctors could safely operate. Despite Bell’s efforts to save Garfield, however, and as never before fully revealed, the interventions of Garfield’s friend and doctor, Dr. D. W. Bliss, brought about the demise of the nation’s twentieth president. But why would a medical doctor engage in such monstrous behavior? Did politics, petty jealousy, or failed aspirations spark the fire inside Bliss that led him down the path of homicide? Rosen proves how depraved indifference to human life—second-degree murder—rather than ineptitude led to Garfield’s drawn-out and painful death. Now, more than one hundred years later, historian and homicide investigator Fred Rosen reveals through newly accessed documents and Bell’s own correspondence the long list of Bliss’s criminal acts and malevolent motives that led to his murder of the president.

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248

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U of Nebraska Press

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1612347681

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9781612347684

Engineering Geology and Construction

By: Fred G. Bell

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Engineering Geology and Construction

By: Fred G. Bell

Winner of the 2004 Claire P. Holdredge Award of the Association of Engineering Geologists (USA).The only book to concentrate on the relationship between geology and its implications for construction, this book covers the full scope of the subject from site investigation through to the complexities of reservoirs and dam sites. Features include inter

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CRC Press

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1482264668

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9781482264661

Book's by Fred Orton

Figuring Jasper Johns

Figuring Jasper Johns

Aesthetic Thinking: Essays on Intention, Painting, Action, and Ideology

Aesthetic Thinking: Essays on Intention, Painting, Action, and Ideology

Murdering the President

Murdering the President

Engineering Geology and Construction

Engineering Geology and Construction

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