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American material culture and the Texas experience : itinerant and immigrant artists and artisans in 19th-century Texas.
Fine Arts Library N6530.T4 D38 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- David B. Warren Symposium (4th : 2013 : Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)
- Series:
- David B. Warren Symposium ; volume 4.
- David B. Warren Symposium ; volume 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, American--Texas--19th century--Congresses.
- Art, American.
- Decorative arts--Texas--History--19th century--Congresses.
- Decorative arts.
- Itinerant artists--Texas--Congresses.
- Itinerant artists.
- Immigrants--Texas--Congresses.
- Immigrants.
- History.
- Texas.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 154 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color), plans ; 22 cm.
- Other Title:
- Itinerant and immigrant artists and artisans in 19th-century Texas
- Place of Publication:
- Houston [Texas] : Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, the Museum of Fine Arts, [2014]
- Summary:
- One of the greatest cultural treasures in the state of Texas, Bayou Bend is renowned for its superb collection of American and Texas decorative arts and painting. Ti humor Bayou Bend's founding director emeritus and his passion for American material cultures, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, established the David B. Warren Symposium, which is presented biennially. Each symposium develops a different aspect of the overall theme of American material culture and the Texas experience. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The arts in early Texas: a cultural crossroads / Ron Tyler
- Settlers, artisans, and immigrants: evolution and cultural continuity in the building of South Texas / Mario L. Sánchez
- The search for early Texas silversmiths / D. Jack Davis
- Have camera, will travel: itinerant and immigrant photographers in early Texas / David Haynes
- Thomas Allen's sketches and paintings of Texas, 1877-1879 / Heather Elizabeth White.
- Notes:
- This publication is based on papers delivered at the fourth David B. Warren Symposium, "Itinerant and Immigrant Artists and Artisans in 19th-Century Texas," presented by Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, on October 25-27, 2013.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780890901809
- 0890901805
- OCLC:
- 880418841
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