Sarah Burns

Traces the near-fatal 1989 Central Park attack on a woman and the ensuing media frenzy and public hysteria that culminated in the wrongful convictions of five Latino teens, in a report that analyzes regional class and race struggles and the failures of local government and law enforcement.

A Chronicle of a City Wilding

The Central Park Five

Eugène Lepoittevin

Fanny Woodcock

Bawdy Tales and Trifles of Devilries for Ladies and Gentlemen of Experience

Sarah Burns takes the reader on a thrilling, action-packed adventure in this her first novel. In it, she and her older sister, Ashley, somehow fall into the pages of a book they are reading, a book in which a dreadful beast is attacking a town and all those who live there. " A touching story of sisterly love in the face of great adversity" - JES

The Never Ending Story

Emphatically Queer Career of Artist Perkins Harnly and His Bohemian Friends

The Theory and History of Presidential Unilateralism

Politics of War Powers

John Davis

From the simple assertion that "words matter" in the study of visual art, this comprehensive but eminently readable volume gathers an extraordinary selection of words—painters and sculptors writing in their diaries, critics responding to a sensational exhibition, groups of artists issuing stylistic manifestos, and poets reflecting on particular works of art. Along with a broad array of canonical texts, Sarah Burns and John Davis have assembled an astonishing variety of unknown, little known, or undervalued documents to convey the story of American art through the many voices of its contemporary practitioners, consumers, and commentators. American Art to 1900 highlights such critically important themes as women artists, African American representation and expression, regional and itinerant artists, Native Americans and the frontier, popular culture and vernacular imagery, institutional history, and more. With its hundreds of explanatory headnotes providing essential context and guidance to readers, this book reveals the documentary riches of American art and its many intersecting histories in unprecedented breadth, depth, and detail.

A Documentary History

American Art to 1900

Rural Life in Nineteenth-century American Art and Culture

Pastoral Inventions

David Boyle

Sherry Clark

This report looks at the concept of co-production, the process whereby public service clients work alongside professionals, often in the local community to make their work more effective, to see how it works, how much it helps clients and public services, and how public services can best be broadened in this way. As the debate on the future of public services increasingly looks to the participation of ordinary people alongside professionals, this is the first comprehensive piece of research in the UK to look at co-production as a possible way forward. The research studied a range of projects that broadly answered the definition of co-production in London, Glasgow and the Welsh Valleys, looking at how they were supporting and enabling their clients and beneficiaries to play an active role in their recovery and that of their neighbours, and how far this helped create social cohesion, better recovery and a changed relationship between public service institutions and the communities they serve. People outside paid work from the local communities that were being studied were trained up as researchers to undertake this study. Among their findings was that co-production is effective, but that it is both more widespread, and more challenging for large-scale public service institutions, than had been understood.

Co-production by People Outside Paid Employment

Hidden Work

American Art to 1900 presents an astonishing variety of unknown, little-known, or undervalued documents to convey the story of American art through the many voices of its contemporary practitioners, consumers, and commentators. The volume highlights such critically important themes as women artists, African American representation and expression, regional and itinerant artists, Native Americans and the frontier, and more. With its hundreds of explanatory headnotes, this book reveals the documentary riches of American art and its many intersecting histories. -back cover.

Robert Henri

Erika Doss

Brigham Young University. Museum of Art

Marian Wardle

Seldom recognized, yet contributing significantly to the structure of early American modernism is a group of women who were once the art students of the popular and perhaps most influential American art teacher of the twentieth century, Robert Henri (1865-1929). Henri encouraged an art that was expressive of personal emotions and experience and that was grounded in life. He preached equality among different media and approaches to art. Giving heed to his teachings, his women students engaged in a wide variety of artistic production. Collectively, the stunning variety and power of their work in painting, sculpture, printmaking, textiles, decorative arts, and furniture broadens our understanding of American modernism and illuminates the role of women artists in shaping it. Yet, these women have remained largely unstudied, and virtually unknown, even among art historians. The seven new essays included in this volume move beyond the famed Ashcan School-the small group of Henri's male students who worked in a narrow range of urban realist subjects-to recover the lesser known work of his women students. The contributors, who include well-known scholars of art history, American studies, and cultural studies demonstrate how these women participated in the "modernizing" of women's roles during this era; how gender controlled their art, productivity, sales, and reception; how their many styles, media, and subjects enrich our understanding of modern American art; and how the work of modern women artists relates to women's involvement in other areas of modern American society and culture, including labor and social reform, patronage, literature, dance, and music. Lavishly illustrated and complemented by short biographies of more than 400 of Henri's students, this delightful collection adds a long-ignored but deserving dimension to an expanded story of American modernism and to women's contributions to the arts.

The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910-1945

American Women Modernists

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