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Marble Halls
Civic and Urban Architecture in the Gilded Age
by Wayne Craven
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Delaware Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-692-88421-8, ISBN: 0-692-88421-1

"Marble Halls is about the great civic buildings that were designed in the style of Beaux-Arts classicism during the Gilded Age (1865–1918) and about the City Beautiful movement that was intended to improve the setting for the buildings and the urban environment for the people. The Industrial Revolution, which arrived belatedly in the United States, provided the wealth required for grand architecture, and the classical Beaux-style was im ..."






American Art(Updated)
History and Culture, Revised First Edition
by Wayne Craven
Paperback, 688 Pages, Published 2002 by Mcgraw-Hill Education
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-282329-5, ISBN: 0-07-282329-1

""American Art" set the standard for American art survey courses for the last decade by providing a thorough and engaging chronology of American art, including painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, photography, folk art, and graphic arts. Wayne Craven presents art and artists within the context of their times, including insights into the intellectual, spiritual, and political environment. Along the way, Craven charts the gr ..."






American Art(1st Edition)
History And Culture
by Wayne Craven
Paperback, 688 Pages, Published 1993 by Mcgraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
ISBN-13: 978-0-697-16763-7, ISBN: 0-697-16763-1

"American Art: History and Culture is a thorough and engaging chronology of American art, including painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, photography, folk art, and graphic arts. Wayne Craven presents art and artists within the context of their times, including insights into the intellectual, spiritual, and political environment. Along the way Craven charts the growth of a distinctly American art culture. The resulting ..."






American Art(1st Edition)
History and Culture
by Professor Wayne Craven
Hardcover, 687 Pages, Published 1994 by Harry N Abrams Inc
ISBN-13: 978-0-8109-1942-6, ISBN: 0-8109-1942-7

"Here is the most thorough, well-researched, and beautifully illustrated study ever to examine American art from a cultural perspective. The author presents art and artists within the context of their times, including insights into the styles, trends, and political climate that defined each important era. He covers: * Painting * Sculpture * Decorative arts * Folk Art * Architecture * Photography Highlighted by more than 750 magnificen ..."






Stanford White
Decorator in Opulence and Dealer in Antiquities
by Wayne Craven
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2005 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-13344-9, ISBN: 0-231-13344-8

"The designer of such landmarks as the Washington Square Arch, the New York Herald and Tiffany Buildings, and the homes of captains of American industry, Stanford White is a legendary figure in the history of American architecture. Yet while the exteriors and floor plans of his designs have been extensively studied and written about, no book has fully examined the other aspect of his career, which claimed at least half of his time and cr ..."






American Art(1st Edition)
History and Culture
by Wayne Craven
Hardcover, 688 Pages, Published 2002 by Mcgraw-Hill Professional
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-141524-8, ISBN: 0-07-141524-6

"Here is the most thorough, well-researched, and beautifully illustrated study ever to examine American art from a cultural perspective. The author presents art and artists within the context of their times, including insights into the styles, trends, and political climate that defined each important era. He covers: * Painting * Sculpture * Decorative arts * Folk Art * Architecture * Photography Highlighted by more than 750 ..."






Colonial American Portraiture
by Wayne Craven
Hardcover, 480 Pages, Published 1986 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-32044-3, ISBN: 0-521-32044-5

"In this new and provocative study, the renowned art scholar Wayne Craven examines early American portraiture not just in terms of the genius of particular artists, but as a complex expression of society and the individual. Historians of American art have long identified the evolution of styles in early portraits; Professor Craven asks why those styles developed as they did, looking beyond the formal boundaries of traditional art history ..."






Sculpture in America(Updated)
by Wayne Craven
Hardcover, 782 Pages, Published 1984 by Cornwall Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8453-4776-8, ISBN: 0-8453-4776-4

"An illustrated story of how the art form developed in America from the seventeenth-century colonial artisans to the newest abstract forms"






Sculpture in America(1st Edition)
From the Colonial Period to the Present
by Wayne Craven
Hardcover, 722 Pages, Published 1968 by Crowell
ISBN-13: 978-0-690-72240-6, ISBN: 0-690-72240-0

"An illustrated story of how the art form developed in America from the seventeenth-century colonial artisans to the newest abstract forms"






200 Years of American Sculpture(1st Edition)
by Tom Armstrong, Rosalind E. Krauss, Wayne Craven, Norman Feder, Barbara Haskell, Daniel Robbins, Marcia Tucker, Etc. Thomas Armstrong
Hardcover, 350 Pages, Published 1976 by David R Godine Pub
ISBN-13: 978-0-87923-185-9, ISBN: 0-87923-185-8

"An illustrated, historical and critical survey of sculpture in America, beginning with a discussion of the sculpture of the aboriginal inhabitants and augmented by brief biographies of the sculptors noted"






Two Hundred Years of American Art
by Professor Wayne Craven, Richard Martin, Ricahrd Martin
Paperback, 101 Pages, Published 1986 by University Of Washington Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-295-96457-7, ISBN: 0-295-96457-X

"The Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute."






Gilded Mansions(1st Edition)
Grand Architecture and High Society
by Wayne Craven
Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2008 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-06754-5, ISBN: 0-393-06754-8

"A lavishly illustrated history of the opulent art and architecture of the Gilded Age. The Gilded Age (1865–1918) saw the sudden rise of America's first High Society, including such prominent families as the Astors, Whitneys, and Vanderbilts. As an aristocracy based on fortunes recently acquired, these families endeavored to live like Europe's blue-blooded nobility, shedding Puritan restraint as they joyously flaun ..."






Sculpture in America
by Wayne Craven
Published 1989
ISBN-13: 978-0-317-54879-2, ISBN: 0-317-54879-4






Sculpture in America
(American Art Journal/Kennedy Galleries Book)
by Wayne Craven
Hardcover, 782 Pages, Published 1983 by University Of Delaware Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-87413-225-0, ISBN: 0-87413-225-8

"An illustrated story of how the art form developed in America from the seventeenth-century colonial artisans to the newest abstract forms"






The sculptures at Gettysburg(1st Edition)
by Wayne Craven, Milo Stewart, Kenneth Elkins
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1982 by Eastern Acorn Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-915992-22-5, ISBN: 0-915992-22-1

"Book by Craven, Wayne"






Mr. Luman Reed's Picture Gallery(1st Edition)
A Pioneer Collection of American Art
by Ella M. Foshay, Luman Reed, Wayne Craven, Timothy Anglin Burard
Hardcover, 228 Pages, Published 1990 by Harry N Abrams Inc
ISBN-13: 978-0-8109-3751-2, ISBN: 0-8109-3751-4

"Between 1830 and his death in 1836, New York merchant Luman Reed assembled one of the first significant collections of American art, which he displayed in a specially designed gallery in his townhouse on Greenwich Street in lower Manhattan. Reed's entire collection was purchased after his death by an association of Reed's friends in 1844, when it became the nucleus of the New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts. In 1858, it was given to the N ..."






Cogs in Time
by Sj Davis, Cindy J. Smith, Catherine Stovall, Eada Janes, Faith Marlow, Robert Craven, Samantha Ketteman, Deborah Dalton, Emma Michaels, Nina Stevens, Amanda Gatton, Cecilia Clark, Zoe Adams, Wayne Clark, Mj Baerman, Andrea Staum
Paperback, 324 Pages, Published 2014 by Crushing Hearts And Black Butterfly Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-615-94786-0, ISBN: 0-615-94786-7

"Go on an adventure through unheard of places in time and existence. Here in these remote areas, thriving cities, and secret worlds, a strange technological revolution reigns. Inside these pages inventors, dreamers, and revolutionist rule in worlds of steam driven machines, cog powered humanoids, clockwork miracles, and paranormal magic. Dressed in corsets, top hats, and cog lined finery the heroes and heroines face down immense obstacle ..."






Scholarship in Museums
Roles and Responsibilities
by Wilcomb E. Washburn, Jr. Craven Wayne, Craig Gilborn, Douglas E. Evelyn, Phillip Johnston
Paperback, 73 Pages, Published 1989 by Univ Of Delaware Museum Studies
ISBN-13: 978-0-925050-02-1, ISBN: 0-925050-02-4






Stanford White
Decorator in Opulence and Dealer in Antiquities by Wayne Craven
by Wayne Craven
288 Pages, Published 2005 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-50824-7, ISBN: 0-231-50824-7

"New York: Braziller, 1971. Schiaparelli, Attilio. La Casa Fiorentina e i suoi arredi nei secoli XIV e XV. Florence: Sansoni, 1908. Schottmüller, Frieda. Furniture and Interior Decoration of the Italian Renaissance. New York: Brentano, 1921. Seligman, Germain. Merchants of Art: 1880–1960, Eighty Years of Professional Collecting. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1961. Sheldon, George William, ed. Artistic Houses: Being a Series of ..."






E-Study Guide for
American Art: History and Culture, Revised First Edition by Wayne Craven, ISBN 9780072823295
by Cti Reviews, Cram101 Textbook Reviews, Wayne Craven
Digital, 132 Pages, Published 2012 by Academic Internet Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-1-61905-926-9, ISBN: 1-61905-926-6

"Banner: A bannerisaflag orother piece of clothbearing a symbol, logo, slogan or other message. Bannermaking is an ancient craft. German developed the word to mean an official edict or proclamation and since such written orders often ... down in Marmaris, Turkey in 1996 primarily as an action vehicle for the international TV and film industry. Nowadays the tall ship is used mainly in sailing events, for corporate or private charter, ..."



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