Gist of Art
Title | Gist of Art PDF eBook |
Author | John Sloan |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1944 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
John Sloan's New York
Title | John Sloan's New York PDF eBook |
Author | Heather Campbell Coyle |
Publisher | Delaware Museum of Art |
Total Pages | 218 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
A close look at early 20th-century New York City is revealed through the eyesof Ashcan artist John Sloan.
John Sloan
Title | John Sloan PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Lobel |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 241 |
Release | 2014-04-29 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0300195559 |
This fascinating book highlights the artist’s early career as an illustrator and how it influenced his work as a painter and shaped his response to modernism.
John Sloan
Title | John Sloan PDF eBook |
Author | John Sloan |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 104 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
A Bitter Pill
Title | A Bitter Pill PDF eBook |
Author | John Sloan |
Publisher | Greystone Books Ltd |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 1553654552 |
"Medical treatment of elderly people is not working. Worse, it is often harmful. Clear, hard-hitting, and authoritative, A Bitter Pill investigates why the medical system - from its one-size-fits-all prevention strategy to hospital stays that don't benefit anyone - is failing old people who are in fragile health and what we can do about it." --Book Jacket.
John Sloan's New York Scene
Title | John Sloan's New York Scene PDF eBook |
Author | John Sloan |
Publisher | Ishi Press |
Total Pages | 698 |
Release | 2009-12 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780923891633 |
John French Sloan (August 2, 1871 - September 7, 1951) was a U.S. artist. As a member of The Eight, a group of American artists, he became a leading figure in the Ashcan School of realist artists. He was known for his urban genre painting and ability to capture the essence of neighborhood life in New York City, often through his window. Sloan has been called "the premier artist of the Ashcan School who painted the inexhaustible energy and life of New York City during the first decades of the twentieth century," and an "early twentieth-century realist painter who embraced the principles of socialism and placed his artistic talents at the service of those beliefs.
Draftee Division
Title | Draftee Division PDF eBook |
Author | John Sloan Brown |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2014-07-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0813162262 |
The involuntary soldiers of an unmilitary people such were the forces that American military planners had to pit against hardened Axis veterans, yet prewar unpreparedness dictated that whole divisions of such men would go to war under the supervision of tiny professional cadres. Much to his surprise and delight, Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall found that the 88th Infantry Division, his first draftee division, "fought like wildcats" and readily outclassed its German adversaries while measuring up to the best Regular Army divisions. Draftee Division is at once a history of the 88th Division, an analysis of American unit mobilization during World War II, and an insight into the savage Italian Campaign. After an introduction placing the division in historical context, separate chapters address personnel, training, logistics, and overseas deployment. Another chapter focuses upon preliminary adjustments to the realities of combat, after which two chapters trace the 88th's climactic drive through the Gustav Line into Rome itself. A final chapter takes the veteran 88th to final victory. Of particular interest are observations concerning differences connected with mobilization between the 88th and less successful divisions and discussions of the contemporary relevance of the 88th's experiences. Draftee Division is especially rich in its sources. John Sloan Brown, with close ties to the division, has secured extensive and candid contributions from veterans. To these he has added a full array of archival and secondary sources. The result is a definitive study of American cadremen creating a division out of raw draftees and leading them on to creditable victories. Its findings will be important for military and social historians and for students of defense policy