Michael Henderson, Melissa Mednicov, Rebecca Finley, Ronald E. Shields
Sērija : Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Jan-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781648432309)
As the creator of the 67-foot-tall Big Sam statue overlooking Interstate 45, David Adickes is a pivotal, if sometimes enigmatic, figure in Texas art. This book tells the story of how a young artist from rural Texas studied with Fernand Léger in Pari...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Dec-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781648432323)
Robert Craig Bunch has interviewed sixty current Texas artists, focusing on painters, printmakers, sculptors, and others whose work, broadly speaking, is inspired by dreams, visions, myths, and imagined worlds. Working in the tradition of predecesso...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Aug-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781648431357)
In the aftermath of World War II, the United States experienced a rapid expansion of church and synagogue construction as part of a larger religious boom. The synagogues built in that era illustrate how their designs pushed the envelope in aestheti...Lasīt vairāk
Robbie Moore Sanders, Sandra Chipley Kellogg, Marvin E. Beck, Mark Winslett
Sērija : Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Jan-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781623499280)
Bastrop, Texas: a picturesque community of modest size located at the edge of the Lost Pines Forest in Central Texas. Yet, from its vantage point on the banks of the Colorado River, this town boasts 131 sites listed in the National Register of His...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Dec-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781648430527)
Birdsall P. Briscoe (18761971) practiced architecture from 1912 to 1956, the span of years during which Houston was transformed from an ambitious town on Buffalo Bayou into an international city, its economy powered by cotton, trade, and oil. Th...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Nov-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781648430077)
Always have a view, one of Preston Boltons favorite sayings, speaks to his architecture, which made the landscape an integral part of the built environment. In his sixty-plus-year architectural career, Bolton, outstanding alumnus of the Texas A&M...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 17-Aug-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781623498634)
Roger Winter has always been preoccupied with &;recording reality in all its strangeness,&; in the words of biographer and art historian Susie Kalil. His works partake of wide-ranging influences: childhood memories of gospel hymns blaring...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Sep-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781623497941)
Many of the historic houses in and around the town of Victoria, Texas, were built between 1875 and 1910 by immigrant owners. From 1973 to 1975, with the support of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rick Gardner traveled throughout the...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Mar-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781623497729)
On July 20, 1969, humanity paused with attention locked to television and radio broadcasts as the astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission dramatically touched down on the dusty face of the moon. The first word from the lunar surface: Houston....Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Sep-2018, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781623496326)
In this expansive and vigorous survey of the Houston art scene of the 1970s and 1980s, author Pete Gershon describes the city’s emergence as a locus for the arts, fueled by a boom in oil prices and by the arrival of several catalyzing figu...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Dec-2016, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781623494582)
Since the beginnings of their architectural practice in 1992, William Curtis and Russell Windham have dedicated their work to the principle that classical architecture, in its best sense, should embody the same rigor, the same attention to surro...Lasīt vairāk
W. Eugene George, Mary Carolyn Hollers George, Mariį Eugenia Guerra, Stephen Fox
Sērija : Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Oct-2016, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781623494520)
In 1865, Heinrich Portscheller immigrated to Mexico from his native Germany, perhaps motivated by a desire to avoid compulsory military service in the Austro-Prussian War. The scion of a well-known family of masons and master builders, he had the mi...Lasīt vairāk
Howard Barnstone, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ezra Stoller, Peter Brink
Sērija : Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Dec-2014, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781623492472)
Of all the books about Galveston, one of the best continues to be architect Howard Barnstones The Galveston That Was, published many years ago. This poignant and vivid record of the great mansions and public buildings of the historic island cit...Lasīt vairāk
Dorothy Knox Howe Houghton, Barrie M. Scardino Bradley, Sadie Gwin Blackburn, Katherine S. Howe
Sērija : Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Nov-2014, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781623492465)
This ambitious book tells a richly detailed story of Houston home life and culture from the settlement of Harrisburg and Houston in the 1820s and 1830s to World War I, when r...Lasīt vairāk
Alice (Barrie) M. Scardino Bradley, Doreen Stoller, Stephen Fox
Sērija : Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 26-Nov-2013, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781623490362)
Richly illustrated with rare period photographs, Houston’s Hermann Park: A Century of Community provides a vivid history of Houston’s oldest and most important urban park. Author and historian Barrie Scardino Bradley se...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Sep-2007, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781585445950)
In the early 1920s, architect John F. Staub, a native of Knoxville, Tennessee, who had studied at MIT and worked in New York, came to the burgeoning city of Houston as an assistant to nationally prominent architect Harrie T. Lindeberg. Staub was...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2007, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781585445820)
Alleys and back buildings have been largely overlooked in studies of the American urban environment. And yet, rental alley houses, servant and slave quarters, carriage houses, stables, and other secondary structures have lined the alleys and fil...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Jan-2005, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781585442706)
For centuries Texas has fired the imagination of artists as well as explorers and settlers. Before modern photography, engravings were the principal type of illustration used by artists to portray images of the state. Now, in this extensive cata...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Aug-2000, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9780890968819)
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The Queen of the Gulf that was Galveston in the late 1800s. Praised for its splendor and riches, its thriving commercial spirit, and its strategic location at one of the Gulf Coasts most accessible ports, the booming island city owed much of its...Lasīt vairāk
