Light bumping to edges. Size: 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. NOT Ex-library. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Education; ISBN: 0028970284. ISBN/EAN: 9780028970288. Inventory No: 022114.

Athletics and Academe: An Anatomy of Abuses and a Prescription for Reform (American Council on Education/Oryx Press Series on Higher Education)

Medical Books

Littleton, Taylor D.

Bailey, Wilford S.

American Council on Education

Medicine

Amer Council on Education

In this lavishly illustrated biography of silversmith and graphic artist William Spratling (1900--1967), Taylor D. Littleton reintroduces one of the most fascinating American expatriates of the early twentieth century. Best known for his revolutionary silver designs, Spratling influenced an entire generation of Mexican and American silversmiths and transformed the tiny village of Taxco into the "Florence of Mexico." Littleton widens the context of Spratling's popular reputation by examining the formative periods in his life and art that preceded his brilliant entrepreneurial experiment in the Las Delicias workshop in Taxco, which left a permanent mark on Mexico's artistic orientation and economic life.
Spratling made a fortune manufacturing and designing silver, but his true life's work was to conserve, redeem, and interpret the ancient culture of his adopted country. He explained for North American audiences the paintings of Mexico's modern masters and earned distinction as a learned and early collector of pre-Columbian art. Spratling and his workshop gradually became a visible and culturally attractive link between a steady stream of notable American visitors and the country they wanted to see and experience.
Spratling had the rare good fortune to witness his own reputation -- as one of the most admired Americans in Mexico -- assume legendary status before his death. William Spratling, His Life and Art vividly reconstructs this richly diverse life whose unique aesthetic legacy is but a part of its larger cultural achievement of profoundly influencing Americans' attitudes toward a civilization different from their own.

William Spratling, His Life and Art (Southern Biography Series)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

LSU Press

Book by Littleton, Taylor D., Sykes, Maltby

Advancing American Art: Painting, Politics, and Cultural Confrontation at Mid-Century

Sykes, Maltby

Univ of Alabama Pr

Philip Henry Gosse’s detailed watercolors of Alabama’s native insects and plants represent a landmark in the annals of American natural history. Offered for the first time are the complete full-color illustrations from Gosse’s Entomologia Alabamensis, along with a biographical essay placing Gosse’s work in the context of his long and fruitful life. 
Born in 1810 in Worcester, England, the young Philip Henry Gosse developed a passion for the natural world. Having learned the basics of miniature portraiture from his father, Gosse quickly took for his artistic subjects the flourishing marine life he discovered along the English coast. In May, 1838, Gosse took a teaching job in Dallas County, Alabama. For the next eight months he collected the insect specimens that he would preserve in the beautifully detailed watercolors of Entomologia Alabamensis. In addition, he composed a highly personalized chronology of his life in a frontier culture, published eventually as Letters from Alabama. Following his return to England, Gosse went on to publish more than 40 books, producing some of the 19th century’s finest illustrations of insects and marine organisms. Today, he is remembered as a popular writer of science for the general public and as a passionate artist whose work in Alabama and elsewhere captured and revealed the beauty and vitality of the natural world. Copublication with the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art and Auburn University Libraries.

Philip Henry Gosse: Science and Art in Letters from Alabama and Entomologia Alabamensis

Science & Math

Mullen, Gary R.

Biological Sciences

University Alabama Press

#Originally published: New York : American Council on Education : Macmillan ; Toronto : Collier Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan, c1991, in series: American Council on Education/Macmillan series in higher education.#Includes bibliographical references and index.

Oryx Pr

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