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The Jungle

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Description: The Jungle
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Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 1: The...
The concept of Latin America as a geographical and political entity took shape in the 1850s in response to struggles over international trade routes, the territorial and capitalist expansion of the United States, and the need to defend multiracial...
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PublisherHarvard University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.227-256
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00145.016
Description: Seeing Through Paintings: Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies
The most significant information revealed by study of the support is the approximate age of the painting and whether the work has survived in complete or fragmentary form. These are crucial questions for anyone interested in a paintings subject matter or history, or in its formal characteristics. Examination of the support can also reveal the painting’s condition and any structural restoration that it has received. This can be essential in determining its authenticity or provenance. …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.5-65
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00110.004
Description: Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s
The upbeat lyric by Ira Gershwin quoted in the epigraph, set to a bouncy, captivating melody recovered from the papers left by his recently deceased brother George, served as the official anthem of the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair. “Dawn of a New Day,” like the fair itself, exemplified one sort of possible response to recent, worrisome historical events. Its metaphors were not very fresh—gray skies, the wolf at the door—but the message was none the less attractive for that. Perhaps the hard …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.49-120
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00101.005

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