Reproduced in its entirety with twenty color plates, this annotated edition of The Country Seats of the United States includes notes on the sites shown and a biographical essay situating Birch within his artistic and political world.
Reproduced in its entirety with twenty color plates, this annotated edition of The Country Seats of the United States includes notes on the sites shown and a biographical essay situating Birch within his artistic and political world.
Pavel Petrovich Svin'in (1787/88-1839) was a painter, diplomat, and journalist who spent two years as part of the first Russian diplomatic mission to the United States. Soon after returning to Russia, Svin'in published a travel narrative of his experiences.
This study traces the development of American architecture from the age of Jefferson to the antebellum era, providing a survey of this important period. W. Barksdale Maynard overturns the long-accepted notions that the chief theme of early 19th-century American architecture was a patriotic desire to escape from European influence and that competing styles chiefly reflected the American struggle for cultural uniqueness. Instead, deep and consistent aesthetic ties, especially with England, shaped American architecture and house designs. Maynard shows that the Greek Revival in particular was an international phenomenon, with American achievements inspired by British example and with taste taking precedence over patriotism.
George William Russell, better known as AE (1867-1935), mystic, poet, painter, journalist, editor, and practical rural economist, was a pivotal figure in the Irish literary revival and in the emergence of modern Ireland. From the beginning of the twentieth century he formed life-long friendships with W. B. Yeats, George Moore, Lord Dunsany, James Stephens, Stephen Mackenna (translator of the Enneads of Plotinus), James Joyce, and other writers, thinkers, and artists, and was closely associated with the Irish National Theatre Society (later the Abbey Theatre). Russell's influence was as extensive in practical and political affairs as it was in the more intimate spiritual domain. The length and breadth of his thinking on the social issues of his day, which are only heightened in ours, is evident in this present work. This exhaustive and unsurpassed bibliography of the works of George William Russell, includes, in addition to a chronological listing of all his published written works, Notes on his Paintings and Portraits by Alan Denson, a Foreword by Padraic Colum, Reminiscences of AE by M. J. Bonn, and a Note on AE and Painting by Thomas Bodkin. Of the compiler, Alan Denson, the late Oliver St John Gogarty wrote: 'I do not know anyone who is better equipped to write about AE.' Mr. Denson also edited The Letters of AE (available again from Coracle Pr
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