Author: Jim CorriganPublisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780766031340
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Describes the important world, national, and cultural developments of the decade 1950-1959.
American Decades
Author: Vincent TompkinsPublisher: American Decades
ISBN: 9780810357266
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Intended as a reference source for American social history, this volume discusses the people, events and ideas of the 1940s. After an introductory overview and chronology, subject chapters follow with subject-specific timelines and alphabetically arranged entries.
The Lost Decade
Author: Dermot KeoghPublisher: Mercier Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This book brings to light the social, cultural, political and economic complexities and contradictions of Ireland in the 1950s. There is a strong emphasis on the development of economic thinking and cultural life in Ireland during the 1950s. There are contributions on the role of women in society, the question of abortion and attitudes towards adoption The academic panel, which includes John Banville, Andrew McCarthy, John Bradley and Gerry O'Hanlon, has contributed essays based on original research.
Author: Sig Mickelson
Author: R. Barton PalmerMark Rothko
Author: Bradford R. CollinsPublisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847839001
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The first publication dedicated exclusively to Mark Rothko’s art during the critical formative period of the 1940s. Examining the development and artistic exploration of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, this unprecedented volume presents the works of American artist Mark Rothko from the 1940s, a time when his most essential development as a painter occurred, dramatically and in a very compact space of time. During this period, Rothko moved from expressive figurative and surrealist canvases to more abstract multiform subjects and finally to his signature abstractions—luminous rectangles of color suspended in space. Richly illustrated with works by Rothko and his contemporaries, introduction by Todd Herman and essays by prominent Rothko scholars, this important new book deepens our understanding of Rothko’s art during this vital period, and that of the mature works that emerged from it.
Author: Arnold Shaw
Author: Stephen H. PaschenSongs of the 1950s - The New Decade Series: E-Z Play Today Volume 365
Author: Hal Leonard CorpPublisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9781495062704
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
(E-Z Play Today). Simplified E-Z Play Today versions of this collection of 100 of the biggest hits of the '50s. Songs include: Ain't That a Shame * All Shook Up * At the Hop * Be-Bop-A-Lula * Blue Suede Shoes * Blueberry Hill * Chantilly Lace * Come Go with Me * Don't Be Cruel (To a Heart That's True) * Earth Angel * Fever * Great Balls of Fire * Heartbreak Hotel * Hound Dog * I Walk the Line * Jailhouse Rock * Jambalaya (On the Bayou) * Love Me Tender * Mister Sandman * Mona Lisa * Peggy Sue * Peter Gunn * Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) * Rock Around the Clock * Sixteen Tons * A Teenager in Love * Tequila * That'll Be the Day * Unchained Melody * Volare * Why Do Fools Fall in Love * Yakety Yak * You Send Me * Your Cheatin' Heart * and more.
Fierce Poise
Author: Alexander NemerovPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525560203
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A National Book Critics Circle finalist • One of Vogue's Best Books of the Year A dazzling biography of one of the twentieth century's most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler, as she came of age as an artist in postwar New York “The magic of Alexander Nemerov's portrait of Helen Frankenthaler in Fierce Poise is that it reads like one of Helen's paintings. His poetic descriptions of her work and his rich insights into the years when Helen made her first artistic breakthroughs are both light and lush, seemingly easy and yet profound. His book is an ode to a truly great artist who, some seventy years after this story begins, we are only now beginning to understand.” ―Mary Gabriel, author of Ninth Street Women At the dawn of the 1950s, a promising and dedicated young painter named Helen Frankenthaler, fresh out of college, moved back home to New York City to make her name. By the decade's end, she had succeeded in establishing herself as an important American artist of the postwar period. In the years in between, she made some of the most daring, head-turning paintings of her day and also came into her own as a woman: traveling the world, falling in and out of love, and engaging in an ongoing artistic education. She also experienced anew―and left her mark on―the city in which she had been raised in privilege as the daughter of a judge, even as she left the security of that world to pursue her artistic ambitions. Brought to vivid life by acclaimed art historian Alexander Nemerov, these defining moments--from her first awed encounter with Jackson Pollock's drip paintings to her first solo gallery show to her tumultuous breakup with eminent art critic Clement Greenberg―comprise a portrait as bold and distinctive as the painter herself. Inspired by Pollock and the other male titans of abstract expressionism but committed to charting her own course, Frankenthaler was an artist whose talent was matched only by her unapologetic determination to distinguish herself in a man's world. Fierce Poise is an exhilarating ride through New York's 1950s art scene and a brilliant portrait of a young artist through the moments that shaped her.
