Making Georgian Dolls' Houses

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Looking for Georgian Dolls House Plans?.......2003-02-11

This book has a lot of diagrams and instructions for making Georgian dolls houses and shops. He shows how to make flooring, doors, chimneys, lighting fixtures, and more. Examples are shown of roof styles, and architecture. Electrical diagrams are also shown. A nice book.

Georgian and Regency Architecture (Chaucer Press Architecture Library) (Chaucer Press Architecture Library)

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Georgian and Regency Architecture (Chaucer Press Architecture Library) (Chaucer Press Architecture Library)

Manufacturer: Chaucer Press
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ASIN: 1904449018

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Georgian and Regency architecture spans the years from 1714 until 1830, a period that bequeathed a rich heritage of buildings to the British landscape. From great country houses and churches to the formal city squares of Edinburgh and the graceful crescents of Bath, Georgian structures are distinguished by the elegance and harmony of their design. Georgian and Regency Architecture contains over two hundred illustrations, a chapter on the development of the concept of town planning, and biographical details of the outstanding architects of the time - from Adam and Hawkesmoor to Palladio and Wyatville. This title is part of a trilogy of books published by Chaucer press, lavishly portraying three hundred years of architecture, from the Georgian and Regency period through the Victorian and Edwardian era to the modern day. Chapter One: A Prelude to the Period Chapter Two: The Georgian Dynasty Chapter Three: Towns: Buildings and Town Planning Chapter Four: Rural Buildings Chapter Five: Churches Chapter Six: Market and Industrial Buildings Chapter Seven: Government and Institutional Buildings Chapter Eight: Museums, Theatres, Clubs, Inns and Hotels Architects and Buildings of the Period Glossary Index

The age of taste;: A lecture given before The Regency Society of Brighton and Hove

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The age of taste;: A lecture given before The Regency Society of Brighton and Hove
H. S Goodhart-Rendel
Manufacturer: The Regency Society of Brighton and Hove
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Georgian and Regency Architecture
Derek Avery
Manufacturer: Chaucer Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K2IVV8

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Out of a long and rich tradition of pottery making among the Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest there has grown a new and exciting form. In 1964, Helen Cordero of Cochiti created a clay image of her grandfather, Santiago Quintana, with five children clinging to him. With this piece the storyteller was born. Almost at once storytellers caught the attention of the public. Beginning at Cochiti and continuing in the other pueblos, the storyteller became a favorite form of pottery. Now the form is even beginning to be used by others outside of the pueblos. The storytellers have come to include not only male figures, but females, turtles, frogs, and coyotes. In this new book, the reader will find the most extensive collection of storytellers ever gathered in print. Over 400 pieces by nearly 150 artists are shown in full color, and organized by pueblo. In addition to storytellers, nativities and other figurative pottery are represented.

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In the 1930s, Broadway's lights still burned brightly. Ethan Mordden completes his history of the Broadway musical by taking a look at this forgotten era. Shows like Anything Goes brought the glitter of Cole Porter and Merman's brass to the public. Innovations in dance were pioneered by Balanchine and others. Scenic advancements made Astaire's The Band Wagon move across the stage in novel ways. Gershwin's revolutionary Porgy and Bess entered the canon of American Classics. And The Cradle Will Rock and Johnny Johnson took the American political temperature. With his trademark wit and style, Ethan Mordden shines the spotlight on Broadway's forgotten decade.

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Pleasurable tome on 1930s musicals.......2005-11-02

Let's face it. You're either going to want to buy this book, or you're not. Very few people out there will be swayed one way or another by these reviews. However, in the hope that there's still one or two people sitting on the fence, I offer my wholehearted recommendation. This book contains more information than you ever wanted to know about 1930s musicals, always opinionated, and often very funny, too.

Basically, if you've read any of Ethan Mordden's other books, you know what to expect. Analysis, information, and humor, all delivered from a gay right-wing perspective. Some other reviewers have bashed Mordden for this, but hey - it's his book. A lot of the fun in these books is the fact that they're written like Mordden is just eating lunch with you and talking about musicals. If Mordden wanted to adopt a more formal tone, I'm sure he'd keep his political views out of the book, but I don't think I'd get nearly as much pleasure from them.

Another thing I love about Mordden is his way of turning obscure theatre references into jokes. For example, how many people will laugh while reading the sentence, "There was some dancing, but nothing for Albertina Rausch to really sink her teeth into." See, it's funny because...but it's really not funny if you have to explain it. Also, there's a running joke about the number of different "Tamara"s who play leading roles in many 1930s shows. I read this stuff and I crack up, but when I read the passages out loud to my friends, they don't get it.

For those of you who are wondering if Mordden offers detailed analyses of the more important shows of the decade, the answer is yes, he does. He speaks in depth on the strengths and weaknesses of the Gershwin political shows, Porter's Jubilee, Kern's...well, all of Kern's 1930s shows, and Rodgers and Hart's On Your Toes, I'd Rather Be Right, and Boys From Syracuse, as well as Kurt Weill's 1930s shows and Blitzstein's Cradle Will Rock. I do wish he had gone into a little more detail about I Married An Angel, and surprisingly enough, his chapter on Porgy and Bess doesn't contain much new insight, but these are minor caveats.

My only other complaint is that this is the final book in his series, cause I don't want him to stop writing about musicals. Basically, if you love musicals, you should love this book. Because Mordden loves musicals, and you can see it in every page he writes.

Music For the Theatre..........2005-07-20

The Broadway theater was in a decline in the Thirties due to the Depression, and there were not big standouts, but many movie stars learned their trade during this decade on Broadway. His title, 'Sing For Your Supper' written by Rodgers and Hart came from a minor show, 'The Boys from Syracuse' which ran for 235 performances; the hit of the show was 'Falling in Love With Love.'

Porky and Bess was the biggest thing to come out of musical theater during that time (1935), though no memorable songs -- it was a black musical. However, it was the first American-made show to be recorded during its original run (four days after the opening) by the nation's main classical-record label, Victor Red Seal by RCA Victor. This was not an original cast recording but used Metropolitan Opera singers for the album.

In the photo section, there are two from this musical, five from 'Jubilee' and one from 'The Band Wagon.' Some of the stars of the Thirties Broadway musicals included Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ethel Merman, Sophie Tucker, Jimmy Durante, and Gene Kelly as one of five 'chorus boys' in 'Leave It to Me.'

In the musicals such big bands as Glenn Miller, Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, and Gene Krupa were in the pit. Memorable songs to make a lasting impression were 'But Not For Me,' which came from Gershwin's score of 'Girl Crazy'; 'Will You Remember Me?' from 'Knickerbocker's Holiday' (Michael Feinstein has a marvelous version on one of his CDs); 'I Can Dream, Can't I?' and 'I'll Be Seeing You' from 'Right This Way' (1938); and 'It's De-Lovely' by Cole Porter in 'Red, Hot and Blue!'

Lively overview of notable musical developments of the time.......2005-06-10

Fans of Broadway productions in general and musicals in particular won't want to miss the Broadway musical history provided by Ethan Mordden in Sing For Your Supper: The Broadway Musical In The 1930s. The 1930s were a period of depression for most Americans: it was also an era when Broadway produced some of the most enjoyable, fun productions ever. Mordden's long-time interest in Broadway productions and history has resulted in several other titles on various topics: this, more than most, covers the innovations and temperament of the times; from the evolution of operatic theatre and burlesque to circus productions and dance. History blends well with a lively overview of notable musical developments of the times.

Series ends on a high.......2005-06-09

After the nasty misanthropic tone of his last book, Mordden ends his epic series in the Broadway musical with something like a return to form. No mean achievement, as this decade, the Thirties, is fraught with more loony leftie commie pinko liberal types than any other. Mordden essentially gets round this problem by dismissing the received wisdom. While he is comparatively fair to both Kurt Weill and Marc Blitzstein, he points out that their left-leaning shows were the exception in the decade rather than the rule. Fair enough, but surely, in a decade wherein Broadway style mattered more than content, this very fact raises more questions than the writer answers (or cares to pose)?

Good Finale to the Series.......2005-04-29

Ethan Mordden can now rest. The author has taken the musical, in a decade by decade series, from the twenties and into the current crop of shows. The last volume to be published in this series is Sing for Your Supper, the Broadway musical in the 1930s. It is an improvement over the last two volumes and a return to the good work of the previous editions. The two problems with the book, though, are the author's need to spend as much time on an Encores version of a thirties show as the original show itself and, at times, the author's boredom with the thirties as a time of no particular historical interest for the historian of Broadway musicals. When an author seems to lose interest on occasion, it makes it harder for the reader to maintain his. Still, it is a satisfying concluding volume with all of the author's wit, insight, opinions, and general knowledge well-displayed, mixed in with little gems of trivia for the musical fan.

The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left From the 1930s to the 1980s

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The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left From the 1930s to the 1980s
Alan M. Wald
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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ASIN: 0807841692

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In contrast to other scholars who emphasize the affinity of the "New York Intellectuals" for literary modernism and its largely Jewish composition as its defining characteristics, Wald finds these traits to be secondary to the group's agonizing efforts in the 1930s and after to build a Marxist alternative to the official Communist movement. Wald presents an absorbing account of this misunderstood chapter in the history of literary radicalism and the Marxist intellectual tradition in the United States.

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Scoundrel Time.......2002-07-07

This book is a good chronicle of the milieu of Cold War Liberals who provided a sophisticated democratic rationale for the Cold War and the political repression of the McCarthy era and who are the most responsible for the demonization of Communists in intellectual circles. In recent times their mentor and hero was President Reagan who gave James Burnham the Medal of Freedom along with Whittaker Chambers-thus their pretensions to being "left-wing" are about as credible as their less generic genuflections before the altar of Leon Trotsky.

This intellectual banditry and collusion with the forces of repression has nothing in common with traditions of authentic libertarian socialism. James P. Cannon, in particular, the founder and long time leader of the Trotskyist movement in the U.S., who unlike Lillian Hellman never had any illusions about the charachter of the Stalin regime and who before founding this movement had played in the 1920s a leading role in the struggle in defense of Sacco & Vanzetti as a Communist leader of the International Labor Defense, took a dim view of these kind of turncoats and fair-weather friends as reflected in his essay from the early 1950s, "Treason of the Intellectuals" contained in his anthology "Notebook of an Agitator", where he denounced those who were leaving both the CP and his own organization, and the progressive movement generally, to jump on the bandwagon of the anti-communist witch-hunt, some like Edward Dymytrk going so far as to inform on their former comrades, in addition to making false and demagogic accusations against others, as nothing but cowardly and corrupt opportunists, scabs, finks and traitors. Cannon always distinguished between opposition to Stalinism and anti-communist redbaiting, the latter of which he always emphasized was part of corporate management's strategy to confuse and divide the working class and suppress basic democratic rights.
Thus this milieu is rightly viewed today by progressives as discredited and philistine, representing the views and interests of Wall Street and official Washington.

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The Wpa Guide to New York City : The Federal Writers' Project Guide to 1930s New York (American Guide)
William H. Whyte
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Here is New York

The Encyclopedia of New York City

ASIN: 1565843215

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This tour guide for time travelers offers New York-lovers and thirties buffs an endlessly fascinating look at life as it was lived in the days when a trolley ride cost five cents, a room at the Plaza hotel was $7.50, Dodger fans flocked to Ebbetts Field, and the new World's Fair was the talk of the town. The New York of 1939 was a city where adventures began "under the clock" at the Biltmore, and the big liners sailed at midnight. The Yankees were on their way to four in a row, and Times Square was truly the crossroads of the world.

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Great reading.......2007-06-27

This well written guide had intersting facts about this - the greatest city in the world. The majority of the buildings described are still standing. The descriptions of the city in 1939 are facinating to read. Well worth reading if you are planning to visit 21st century New York and a must for any New Yorker

Old New York.......2007-03-08

A facinating treasure trove of detailed and documented information on New York's neighborhoods. The bibliorgaphy is an invaluable but often neglected resource. Despite its extensive detail, the text is a facinating read.

fascinating read.......2003-09-12

Not for reading straight through, the guide is an amazing resource. Anybody living in or visiting New York regularly will be fascinated to look up their favourite (or least favourite) neighbourhoods to see what they were like in 1939. The maps are beautiful (the photos less interesting) and the text is elegantly and lyrically written.

It's a bit of an archeological game at times, as you find that a few minor idiosyncracies in neighbourhoods today are the remnants of entire cultures and histories that used to thrive.

The editors made the right decision to leave the text entirely alone.

A perfect gift for anybody trying to make it in the Big Apple.

Dull, but thorough.......2003-01-11

I'm writing a novel set in 1930s New York and for research purposes, this book is a great starting point. But as for simply sitting down and reading it all the way through, well, it's a bit dull. For a better sense of the sweep and drama of New York's history, try tracking down New York Panorama, also put out by the WPA around the same time.

The golden age of New York.......1999-06-17

Anyone interested in New York City will find this book absolutely fascinating. Imagine being transported to the City's golden age -the years during which America was emerging from the Depression---and before being thrust into World War Two. The City is chronicled neighborhood by neighborhood and includes interesting historical background information. With this book you will see New York through the eyes of the past; One of my all time favorites.

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Mumford on Modern Art in the 1930s
Robert Mumford
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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ASIN: 0520248589

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Although Lewis Mumford is widely acknowledged as the seminal American critic of architecture and urbanism in the twentieth century, he is less known for his art criticism. He began contributing to this field in the early 1920s, and his influence peaked between 1932 and 1937, when he was art critic for the New Yorker. This book, for the first time, assembles Mumford's important art criticism in a single volume. His columns bring wit and insight to bear on a range of artists, from establishment figures like Matisse and Brancusi to relatively new arrivals like Reginald Marsh and Georgia O'Keeffe. These articles provide an unusual window onto the New York art scene just as it was casting off provincialism in favor of a more international outlook. On a deeper level, the columns probe beneath the surface of modern art, revealing an alienation that Mumford believed symptomatic of a larger cultural disintegration.
Many of the themes Mumford addresses overlap with those of his more familiar architectural criticism: the guiding role of the past in stimulating creativity in the present, the increasing congestion of the modern metropolis, the alarming lack of human control over modern technology, and the pressing need to restore organic balance to everyday living. Though he was open to new movements emanating from Europe, Mumford became the chief advocate of a progressive American modernism that was both socially aware and formally inventive.

WNEW: Where the Melody Lingers on, 1934-1984

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WNEW: Where the Melody Lingers on, 1934-1984
Nightingale Gordon
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Binding: Hardcover

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A history of the WNEW radio station, illustrated with black and white photographs and Al Hirschfeld caricatures.

New York in the 1930s (Pocket Archives Series)

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New York in the 1930s (Pocket Archives Series)
Samuel Fuller
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There is no question that the images of Manhattan in this book--the East River docks drenched in sunlight, a street vendor offering roasted chick peas, a corner of Central Park blanketed by snow--were made by a man in love with and in awe of this incredible city. Landmark buildings such as the Paramount Theater and the Planetarium, and notable people including Lucky Luciano and Ella Fitzgerald--as well as ordinary people, including recent immigrants at Ellis Island--populate the landscape of Samuel Fuller's New York City. The introduction to the collection meanders nostalgically through a lost era that nonetheless resonates through the city today. Fuller was an acclaimed early American filmmaker, and this collection of his still images makes it clear that he was an accomplished photographer as well.

Radical Art: Printmaking and the Left in 1930s New York

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Radical Art: Printmaking and the Left in 1930s New York
Helen Langa
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During the 1930s, the era of the Depression and the New Deal, American artists transformed printmaking into one of the decade's most exciting forms of art. As a cheap, vital, and egalitarian means of artistic expression, prints came close to realizing the ideal of creating "art for the millions." In this dynamic book, Helen Langa shows how innovative printmakers developed "social viewpoint" works that focused on contemporary issues of labor justice, antiracism, and antifascist activism. Discussing artists such as Aaron Douglas, Mabel Dwight, Boris Gorelick, Harry Gottlieb, Elizabeth Olds, Harry Sternberg, Joseph Vogel, and Hale Woodruff, Langa explains how they developed new types of meaningful content, worked in modern, yet accessible, styles, invented new technical processes, and sought fresh strategies for distributing their work to the public. Many, but not all, of the artists she considers worked for the Federal Art Project at the Graphic Arts Division workshop; each struggled to resolve the conflicting goals of reaching a mass audience while also critiquing social injustice and promoting radical idealism.

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THE 1940 New Yorker Album

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Book of New Yorker cartoons by James Thurber, Gluyas Williams, Carl Rose, and many more, including caricatures of famous people of the day.

Adirondack Fishing in the 1930s: A Lost Paradise (A York State Book)

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Adirondack Fishing in the 1930s: A Lost Paradise (A York State Book)
Vincent Engels
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Boathouse Days: Inwood-On-Hudson in the 1930s

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Boathouse Days: Inwood-On-Hudson in the 1930s
Richard E. Roberts
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This book presents analytical frameworks for examining the concept of sustainability in tourism and recreation within the context of sustainable development. It also includes numerous case studies in a variety of cultural, political and environmental contexts. Contributors include well known authorities from North America, Europe and Australia.

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