Bantam Fine Arts - Entry Specializing in 19th and 20th century american and European art and period frames. Located in Litchfield. http://bantamfinearts.com/
Eugenics Archive to the eugenics movement of the early decades of the 20th century. sterilize peopleconsidered genetically unfit. Elements of the american eugenics movement http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/
Extractions: The buttons below link to essays (using the Flash Player plugin) that introduce the key events, persons, and social conditions that contributed to the development of eugenics. We suggest you visit these exhibits before searching the images in the Archive. Click here for text-only versions of the virtual exhibits. Eugenics: The Science of Human Improvement by Better Breeding, presented in its entirety. Explore Arthur Estabrook's field photos of subjects of his (in)famous studies: The Jukes in 1915 Mongrel Virginians , and The Nam Family . Click the "Search the Archive" button to access the image database. Examine the Chronicle of how society dealt with mental illness and other "dysgenic" traits in the final installment of our website: DNA Interactive . Meet four individuals who became objects of the eugenic movement's zeal to cleanse society of "bad" genes during the first half of the 20th century. Then meet a modern-day heroine for an account of mental illness and the lesson it holds for living in the gene age.
Extractions: . . . by Appointment About George Turak Email: turakart@turak.com Online Galleries Online Inventory Now Representing the Estate of Martha Walter Go to . . . . Home Page Martha Walter Gallery Gallery One Gallery Two Gallery Three Gallery Four Gallery Five Gallery Six - M. Walter Gallery Seven About George Turak Comprehensive Inventory O ne of the finest art galleries in the Philadelphia area, specializing in the purchase and sale of 19th and 20th century American art, The Turak Gallery of American Art enjoys a national reputation for the caliber of art that we have placed in corporate, private, and beginning collections throughout the country. We have also been instrumental in locating exceptional examples of a specific artist's work, for placement in the permanent collections of numerous museums across America. The gallery is located at 132 South 17th Street on the 2nd floor in downtown Philadelphia. We are one block away from historic Rittenhouse Square and in the heart of the city's best shopping.
20th Century Skyscrapers - II Photos and information on american skyscrapers built in the period, from the Digital Archive and american Architecture. http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/20_sky3.html
Richard Rorty Life and work of 20th century american philosopher; by Bj¸rn Ramberg. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rorty/
Extractions: FEB Richard Rorty's distinctive and controversial brand of pragmatism expresses itself along two main axes. One is negative-a critical diagnosis of what Rorty takes to be defining projects of modern philosophy. The other is positive-an attempt to show what intellectual culture might look like, once we free ourselves from the governing metaphors of mind and knowledge in which the traditional problems of epistemology and metaphysics (and indeed, in Rorty's view, the self-conception of modern philosophy) are rooted. The centerpiece of Rorty's critique is the provocative account offered in Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979, hereafter PMN). In this book, and in the closely related essays collected in Consequences of Pragmatism (1982, hereafter CP), Rorty's principal target is the philosophical idea of knowledge as representation, as a mental mirroring of a mind-external world. Providing a contrasting image of philosophy, Rorty has sought to integrate and apply the milestone achievements of Dewey, Hegel and Darwin in a pragmatist synthesis of historicism and naturalism. Characterizations and illustrations of a post-epistemological intellectual culture, present in both PMN (part III) and CP (xxxvii-xliv), are more richly developed in later works, such as
An Archaeological Guide To Historic Artifacts Of Central Illinois A visual guide by Lenville J. Stelle for those interested in identifying and dating 19th and 20th century artifacts common to the american Midwest. http://virtual.parkland.edu/lstelle1/len/archguide/documents/arcguide.htm
Extractions: The purpose of this guide is to provide a general introduction to some of the historic artifacts recovered from archaeological sites in the Upper Sangamon Basin of east-central Illinois. Most of the field work has focused on the Mahomet area, but these sites are considered typical of material from the larger study area. The time frame is generally from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the First World War (1920). Many crafts underwent industrialization and technological change during this period. These changes sometimes left temporally sensitive indications at the level of the artifact. The reader must appreciate that as one comes closer to the present the diversity of artifact types increases geometrically. The level of heterogeneity reflects the social and economic differentiation of the time period. The discussion will be limited to three artifact categories: ceramics glass , and structural materials . Materials from these categories are both the most frequently encountered and the most useful for assigning dates. The unit of social analysis is the household.
Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden The oldest modern art gallery in Dallas, specializing in 19th, 20th century, and contemporary american European, and important early Texas fine art. http://www.valleyhouse.com/
Home Page Palm Beach, FL gallery specializing in 19th and 20th century European and american paintings and antiques. http://www.selectfineart.org
American Art And Western Art; Early Works By Taos Artists, Santa Fe Artists, New Santa Fe, NM gallery featuring works of the early artists of the Taos and Santa Fe schools, and 19th and early 20th century american paintings. The gallery also features a collection of traditional New Mexican furniture and a select group of contemporary artists as well as a sculpture garden. Featured artists include Baumann, Bodmer, Catlin, Curtis, Fechin, Gaspard, Higgins, Kloss, Moran and Frederic Remington. http://www.zaplinlampert.com
Salon Classics Salon magazine article on Dreiser and his impact on 20th century american fiction. http://www.salonmagazine.com/promo/1997/10/13classic_dreiser.html
Extractions: Public Library Back to Salon About Theodore Dreiser With the publication of "Sister Carrie" in 1900, Dreiser became the first American author to step into the 20th century, rejecting the cumbersome Victorian morality for what was considered to be a shocking new form of descriptive realism. This novel irrevocably altered the landscape of American literature and gave the country its first modern heroine, Carrie Meeber. In chronicling the rise of a fallen woman, Dreiser unwittingly also touched off a censorship battle that helped end the Victorian era and inspired a new generation of writers. Herman Theodore Dreiser was born in Terre Haute, Ind., on Aug. 27, 1871. He was the ninth of 10 children. DreiserÕs childhood was marred by the downfall of his successful father, John Paul, the manager of a cotton mill. A series of unfortunate mishaps sent the family spiraling into poverty. In 1864, the mill burned down, and during the millÕs reconstruction (according to family legend), a beam hit John Paul on the head, an injury from which he never fully recovered. DreiserÕs father subsequently became obsessively religious and was easily cheated by his business partners. Theodore would remain deeply resentful of his father and of the poverty into which he plunged the family. At the age of 15, Dreiser moved to Chicago where he found work at numerous low-paying and frustrating jobs washing dishes, clerking in a hardware store and tracing freight cars. His working life was interrupted when a former teacher offered to send him to Indiana University for a year. During this time, Dreiser developed an interest in writing. When he moved back to Chicago, he decided to try his hand at journalism, and over several years, became a successful newspaper writer.
Michael Johnson Fine Arts 19th and early 20th century american and California paintings and watercolors by museum quality artists. Contemporary sculpture walk and botanical gardens. http://www.americanfinearts.com
Springfield Museum Of Art Museum has a permanent collection of works by 19th and 20th century american and European artists. http://www.spfld-museum-of-art.org
Charles Hecht Galleries La Jolla and Tarzana, California gallery specializing in contemporary oil paintings and 19th and 20th century american and European paintings. http://www.hechtgalleries.com
Marge's Bazaar At Ruby Lane New York dealer offers 20th century English and american glass and china. http://www.rubylane.com/shops/margesbazaar
History 40C -- 20th Century America web site. Library of CongressImages and artifacts from AmericanHistory; 2Oth century USALinks to various historical WWW sites. http://www.ags.uci.edu/~tmheaney/summer/
Extractions: UCI Summer Session Web Page General Class Info Why should you take History 40C this summer? Because it's enjoyable and interesting. History is not simply one date after another, one President or war after another; it is a web of events, peoples, and processes that together produced the society in which we live today. One cannot adequately understand the world we live in without knowing its past. (Besides, don't you want to know what President Nixon and "The King" are doing together here?) History 40C is a fascinating exploration of what has become known as the "American Century". Through multi-media lectures, readings, group activities, and non-print media (film, posters, music), this course will investigate twentieth-century America by examining a wide variety of topics including social movements, popular culture, sexual and ethnic politcs, and new technologies.
