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Korean Art in the Freer and Sackler Galleries

By: Freer Gallery of Art

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Korean Art in the Freer and Sackler Galleries

By: Freer Gallery of Art

With more than 200 color and archival images, this handy volume presents the full scope of the museums' Korean art collections. First, it traces the formation of the Freer Gallery of Art's collection of 540 Korean objects, reversing the usual chronological order by following the path of the museum founder, Charles Lang Freer, who began in the 1890s by collecting Joseon-period ceramics. The book then describes how the Freer's Korean collection has continued to grow since the 1960s and presents the late twentieth-century Korean art that the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery has acquired as part of its commitment to representing modern and contemporary art movements in Asia.

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216

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Freer Gallery of Art

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0934686238

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9780934686235

An Ideal Country

Paintings by Dwight William Tryon in the Freer Gallery of Art

By: Linda Merrill

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An Ideal Country

Paintings by Dwight William Tryon in the Freer Gallery of Art

By: Linda Merrill

A lavishly illustrated book explores the life & work of a 19th-century American landscape painter.

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200

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University Press of New England

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0874515394

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9780874515398

Hokusai's Brush

Paintings, Drawings, and Sketches by Katsushika Hokusai in the Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art

By: Frank Feltens

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Hokusai's Brush

Paintings, Drawings, and Sketches by Katsushika Hokusai in the Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art

By: Frank Feltens

Experience the breathtaking masterworks of one of the most influential artists in Japan's history. Hokusai's Brush is a companion to the Freer Gallery of Art's yearlong exhibition that celebrates the artist's fruitful career. The Freer, home to the world's largest collection of paintings by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, has put on view for the first time in a decade his incredible and rarely seen sketches, drawings, and paintings. Together with essays that explore his life and career, Hokusai's Brush offers an in-depth breakdown of each painting, providing amazing commentary that highlight Hokusai's mastery and detail. While best known for his woodblock print series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" and particularly the widely recognizable "The Great Wave off Kanagawa," Hokusai is said to have produced 30,000 pieces of art. He lived to ninety years old, and his last words were reportedly to say that if heaven were to grant him another five or ten years, then he could become a true painter. Every stunning page of Hokusai's Brush is a testament to the humility of that statement, emphasizing his artistry and skill, the likes of which shaped the Impressionist movement by inspiring artists such as Monet, Degas, and van Gogh.

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157

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Smithsonian Institution

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1588347001

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9781588347008

The Poetics of Jacobean Drama

By: Coburn Freer

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The Poetics of Jacobean Drama

By: Coburn Freer

Originally published in 1982. The Poetics of Jacobean Drama argues for a rediscovered approach to the study of Renaissance drama. Coburn Freer observes that most modern criticism of this drama treats the plays as if they were written in prose, thus overlooking whole areas of dramatic meaning that were understood in the past. Such an understanding, he asserts, was common among writers, actors, audiences, and readers of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, and a knowledge of it is essential to a full appreciation of the characterization and dramatic structures in these plays. Freer explores the evolution of the modern reluctance to approach Renaissance drama as one would dramatic poetry—from the standpoint of a listener. Blank verse, the author shows, provided Jacobean dramatists with a poetic form against which they could work the pressures of experience within their characters. The writers' ability to work with and against this form provided infinite resources for delineating character and creating significant coherences in the structure of a play. The Poetics of Jacobean Drama offers insights into what the Renaissance writer, actor, and playgoer would have regarded as the domain of poetry in drama. Topics discussed include the conditions of stage performance and the style of acting, Elizabethan education, the rise of printed texts and collected editions, and the comments of Elizabethan audiences and readers. Freer's commentary and theoretical explanations suggest both why and how we should pay closer attention to the poetry of Renaissance drama.

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357

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JHU Press

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142143430X

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9781421434308

Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture

By: Joanna Freer

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Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture

By: Joanna Freer

This volume explores the complex fiction of Thomas Pynchon within the context of 1960s counterculture.

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219

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Cambridge University Press

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1107076056

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9781107076051

The Accessory Handbook

A Costume Designer's Secrets for Buying, Wearing, and Caring for Accessories

By: Alison Freer

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The Accessory Handbook

A Costume Designer's Secrets for Buying, Wearing, and Caring for Accessories

By: Alison Freer

A practical and inspiring guide to how to style, wear, buy, and care for every kind of accessory, from the New York Times best-selling author of How to Get Dressed. Costume designer and writer Alison Freer is beloved for her sassy, rule-breaking fashion advice, which emphasizes that style should be fun, personal, and functional. Instead of prescribing what to wear or own, Freer empowers you to wear whatever you want—and shows how to pull it off—with humor and wit. In The Accessory Handbook, Freer breaks down every type of accessory—from hats and hosiery to jewelry, bags, and shoes—and explains how to best shop for, care for, and wear each with flair.

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194

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Ten Speed Press

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0399580808

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9780399580802

The Foley Family Volume One

By: Tony Freer Minshull

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The Foley Family Volume One

By: Tony Freer Minshull

The family history and genealogy of the Foley family from the late 1500s. The book also deals with those families associated with the Foleys, e.g. Minshull, Barlow, Downe, and Freer. It gives fascinating insights into the notable historical events of the times, many of which involved these families directly.

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162

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Lulu.com

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1847530168

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9781847530165

The Shadow of the Lion

By: Mercedes Lackey,Eric Flint,Dave Freer

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The Shadow of the Lion

By: Mercedes Lackey,Eric Flint,Dave Freer

ADVENTURES IN AN OTHER-WORLDLY NEW-AGE VENICE it is the year 1537. The great winged Lion stares over a Venice where magic thrives. The rich Venetian Republic is a bastion of independence and tolerance. Perhaps for that reason, it is also corrupt, and rotten with intrigue. But for the young brothers Marco and Benito Valdosta, vagabond and thief, Venice is simply-home. They have no idea that they stand at the center of the city's coming struggle for its very life. They know nothing of the powerful forces moving in the background. They have barely heard of Chernobog, demonlord of the North, who is shifting his pawns to attack Venice in order to cut into the underbelly of the Holy Roman Empire. All Marco and Benito know is that they're hungry and in dangerous company: Katerina the smuggler, Caesare the sell-sword, Montagnard assassins, church inquisitors, militant Knights of the Holy Trinity, Dottore Marina the Strega mage . . . and Maria. Maria might be an honest canaler, but she had the hottest temper a boy could find. Yet among the dark waters of the canals lurk far worse dangers than a hot-tempered girl. Chernobog has set a monster loose to wreak havoc on the city. Magic, murder and evil are all at work to pull Venice down. Fanatical monks seek to root out true witchcraft with fire and sword. Steel-clad Teutonic knights, wealth traders, church dignitaries and great Princes fight and plot for control of the jewel of the Mediterranean. And somehow all of these, from thieves to mages to princes, must gather around Marco and his brother Benito, under the shadow of the great winged lion of Venice. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). "The prolific Lackey and cohorts Flint and Freer whip up a luscious bouillabaisse of politics, intrigue, love and black magic set in an "Other-worldly, New-Age Venice. . . ." The authors' use of contemporary American vernacular . . . instead of pompous period speech keeps the pages turning fast. . . ." ¾Publishers Weekly "[A] massive concoction of alternate history, high fantasy, and historical romance set in the sixteenth-century Venice of an alternate world . . . rich plotting, vivid characterization, and splendid evocation of Renaissance ethics and culture should make readers turn all the pages." ¾Booklist ". . . a sweeping alternate history. .. .The authors deftly wield the juxtaposition of fantasy and history into a finely crafted story." ¾Romantic Times "[A] top pick . . . fast-paced action and complex, believable settings." ¾The Bookwatch

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1208

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Baen Publishing Enterprises

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1618243292

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9781618243294

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Korean Art in the Freer and Sackler Galleries

Korean Art in the Freer and Sackler Galleries

An Ideal Country

An Ideal Country

Hokusai's Brush

Hokusai's Brush

The Poetics of Jacobean Drama

The Poetics of Jacobean Drama

Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture

Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture

The Accessory Handbook

The Accessory Handbook

The Foley Family Volume One

The Foley Family Volume One

The Shadow of the Lion

The Shadow of the Lion

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