Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Robbins Hits Greatest Dallas Cowboys


No Description Available
No Track Information Available
Media Type: CD
Artist: ROBBINS,MARTY
Title: ALL-TIME GREATEST HITS
Street Release Date: 02/04/1992
Domestic
Genre: COUNTRY

















    PriceValue
    List Price$7.99
    Cheapest Price$3.34
    You Save at BIN

    List Price : $7.99


    Cheapest Price : $3.34


    You Save :



    Product prices and availability are accurate as of 11-06-13 12:11:45 but are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on the merchant site at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.

    The owner of this website is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon properties including, but not limited to, amazon.com, endless.com, myhabit.com, smallparts.com, or amazonwireless.com.

    Wednesday, August 21, 2013

    (Redirected from Robert Scott Duncanson)




































    Robert Seldon Duncanson
    Robert Scott Duncanson - Landscape with Rainbow .jpg

    Landscape with Rainbow, 1859, 30 × 521⁄4 inches, (76.3 × 132.7 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.
    Born1821 (1821)

    Fayette, New York
    DiedDecember 21, 1872 (1872-12-22)

    Detroit, Michigan
    NationalityAmerican
    FieldPainting
    TrainingSelf taught
    MovementThe Hudson River School
    Influenced byThomas Cole

    Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821 – December 21, 1872) was an African-American painter associated with the Hudson River School. He is often described incorrectly as Robert Scott Duncanson, the son of a Canadian of Scottish descent, but he was actually descended from freed Virginia slaves.



    Background


    He was born in Seneca County, New York in 1821. As a young boy, Duncanson lived with his father in Canada, while his mother lived in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, a village fifteen miles (24 km) north of Cincinnati. It was not until the summer of 1841 that Duncanson left Canada for Mount Pleasant. Upon his return to his mother’s home, Duncanson said, “I’ve come back to be an artist.” Yearning to do more with paint than use it on houses, as he had been doing since 1838 with his house painting and decorating venture, he moved to Cincinnati, which seemed to be the right place. Around this time period, Cincinnati was “known as the Athens of the West.” Although Duncanson possessed the drive and determination to be an artist, he received no technical training. Instead, “determined to break into the exclusively Caucasian art community [. . . he] taught himself art by painting portraits and copying prints.” Duncanson’s determination paid off with a long career that was active until his death in 1872. During his lifetime Duncanson married twice and had three children, Reuben, Milton, and daughter Bertha. Robert Duncanson’s life and career took him around the globe and back again.


    Career


    Duncanson's artistic career had several phases which lead him to travel both the country and the world for the pursuit of his art. Because he was not a formally trained artist, he honed his skills copying prints and painting portraits. In 1842 Duncanson had three portraits ("Fancy Portrait," "Infant Savior, a copy," and "Miser") accepted to the last exhibition hosted by the Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge which had succeeded the Cincinnati Academy of Fine Arts.(p. 15) This served as his public debut to the art world, however this success also came with a dose of reality. No one in Duncanson’s family, not even his mother was allowed to attend the show because of their ethnicity. But keeping everyone’s spirits up his mother said of his paintings, “I know what they look like [. . . ] I know that they are there! That’s the important thing.”


    Taking a short break from portrait work, Duncanson collaborated with another artist, photographer Coates. Together, on “March 19, 1844, Coates and Duncanson advertised a spectacle of ‘Chemical Paintings. . . comprising four splendid views after the singular style of Daguerre.”(p. 18) It is thought that Duncanson was the artistic mind behind the composition of the images while Coates took care of the technical side. Although Duncanson was making progress as an artist personally and publicly, the lack of commissions for his work pushed him to move to Detroit in 1845.


    While in Detroit, Duncanson returned to his roots as a portrait painter and was well received by the local press. In 1846, the Detroit Daily Advertiser praised Duncanson for his skill and color usage, adding, “Mr. Duncanson deserves, and we trust will receive the patronage of all lovers of the fine arts.” Portrait commissions in Detroit were forthcoming, but Duncanson was becoming interested in the genre painting tradition. He was first exposed to the tradition of genre painting through the work of fellow Cincinnati artist James H. Beard.(p. 19) Tired of Detroit and longing to expand his repertoire, Duncanson returned to Cincinnati in 1846.


    Success and landscapes


    As he moved away from portrait work, the exploration journals of John Stevens and Frederick Catherwood, Incidents of Travel in the Yucatan intrigued Duncanson. The prints in these books prompted Duncanson to experiment with far off places and forgotten civilizations in his work. Back in Cincinnati and full of new inspiration, he received a career-boosting commission from Charles Avery. Avery was an abolitionist Methodist minister who commissioned the work Cliff Mine, Lake Superior in 1848. Not only did this work bolster Duncanson’s career as a landscape painter, it also established him within a network of abolitionist patrons who would sustain most of his career.


    After the successful work done for Avery, Duncanson dove into the realm of landscape painting. Along with two other Cincinnati artists, Whittredge and Sonntag, Duncanson became inspired by the work of the Hudson River School artists and aspired to paint the American landscape. Together, the three artists set out on a series of sketching trips around the country to provide them with the necessary material and inspiration to bring back to their Cincinnati studios.(p. 28) After sketching tours scattered about, Duncanson focused on the Ohio River Valley in the early 1850s. With his ambitions cast on landscape work, and feeling the influence of the Hudson River artists, Duncanson strived to transform his topographical works into something more like they had, including “moral messages or literary associations.” To do this he turned to Thomas Cole, copying many of his works dealing with paradise and drawing parallels between the imaginary lands painted and America.


    Belmont Murals and work with James Presley Ball


    Ducanson’s success and progress throughout the years caught the eye of one of Cincinnati’s wealthiest citizens. In 1851, Nicholas Longworth commissioned Duncanson to paint murals on the walls of his home, which was called the Belmont. Duncanson created eight murals for the entry of the Belmont, each nine feet high and six and a half feet wide. Although the scale of the job was large, and Duncanson was still up and coming, Longworth trusted him with the decoration of his home because he thought him to be “one of our most promising painters” The mural Duncanson created combined both his and Longworth’s appreciation for landscape and interior design, Duncanson having painted houses years before. The murals were taxing and time consuming, however the patronage of such a prominent Cincinnati citizen did much to further his career.


    Starting in 1854 and continuing "for about four years," Duncanson worked in the photography studio of James Presley Ball retouching portraits and coloring photographic prints.(pp. 101–103) In addition, Duncanson probably participated in the production of a 600-yard-long abolitionist panoramic painting that Ball unveiled in 1855 entitled "Mammoth Pictorial Tour of the United States Comprising Views of the African Slave Trade."(p. 104)


    Self-imposed exile


    With the onset of the Civil War Duncanson exiled himself to Canada and the United Kingdom. In 1863 he took up residence in Montreal and would stay for two years. Here he was accepted enthusiastically and was inspirational to Canadian painters such as Otto Reinhold Jacobi. Canadians loved Duncanson as one of their own and thought of him as one of “the earliest of our professional cultivators of the fine arts.” The Canadian landscape greatly influenced Duncanson, and is evident in many of his works. In 1865 he left Canada for the United Kingdom, particularly England and Scotland, to tour one of his most accomplished works, The Land of the Lotus Eaters. In Europe, his work was well received and the prestigious London Art Journal declared him a master of landscape painting. In the winter of 1866–1867 Duncanson returned to Cincinnati. Inspired by his European travels he painted many scenes of the Scottish landscape.


    Final years


    In the final years of his life, Duncanson created some of his greatest works. Throughout his career, his works had always tended toward the pastoral, and his late works continued to show his love of landscape painting and resonated calmness and serenity.(p. 157) Duncanson fell physically and psychologically ill and died in Detroit, Michigan on December 21, 1872, when he was fifty-one years old. With the changing cultural tastes of the time Robert Scott Duncanson’s work fell into obscurity. He was buried at the Woodland Cemetery in Monroe, Michigan.


    Legacy


    Although not very well known by the general public, Robert Scott Duncanson had a significant impact on American art. As the first American painter to take up residence in Canada and focus on its landscape, Duncanson’s influence has been felt there as well. At a gallery showing in Harlem, the New York Amsterdam News called the works by Duncanson “pioneering.” It is not the genre he chose to paint in that was pioneering, it was the subtle way he infused his paintings with an African American sensibility without creating what the art world would categorize as African American paintings. Although Duncanson’s son urged him to be more outright African American in his works, Duncanson wrote to his son, “I have no color on the brain; all I have on the brain is paint.” This highlights his laid-back approach to racial tensions that the art world had not seen before. Audiences looking at Duncanson’s work have to look hard, beyond the obvious associations with themes of landscape and idealized lands, to see the commentary on a post Civil War America and a socially aware African American artist. Instead, Richard Powell of American Visions says that Duncanson’s success is a “victory over society’s presumptions of what African American artist should create.” Duncanson’s artwork has become a useful tool in teaching art students about the history of African American artists.


    Selected works


    Landscape, 1870


    Duncanson’s Landscape, 1870 is one in a series of landscape works.


    Upon close inspection, the right bank of the river contains two men with a canoe and a fire. Although Duncanson makes them very small, this fits with his trade mark of subtly and functions as a “metaphor for nature as pastoral, picturesque environment receptive to the presence of people.” The light source comes from the natural light of the sun. With the shadows and haziness of the lighting, and the brightest part being the western sky, the landscape seems to be portraying dusk in the mountains. The colors of this work are all soft and natural, giving it a very serene feel. This great landscape work shows Duncanson’s development as an artist and technical achievement. Landscape, 1870 was created in the last phase of his career after a tour to Europe. European influence is detected in the brushed foliage of the two tall trees on the left, while the rocks and mountains pay tribute to his influences of the Hudson River School and Thomas Cole. Landscape 1870 is part of a landscape trio that Duncanson used to showcase his range and mastery of the landscape genre. This work represents a picturesque view of nature, while Dog’s Head is more rugged, and Vale of Kashmir is a tropical fantasy. Landscape, 1870 is the culmination of his career and is a testament to his accomplishments as an American landscape painter.


    Uncle Tom and Little Eva, 1853


    Robert Duncanson’s Uncle Tom and Little Eva, painted in 1853 is housed at the Detroit Institute of Arts. The painting depicts a scene from Chapter 22 of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The characters are set in an idyllic landscape of tropical plants and Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana. Reverend James Francis Conover commissioned Uncle Tom and Little Eva in 1853 after a viewing of Duncanson’s work at the Fireman’s Hall exhibit in the same year. This work is his only one containing explicit African American subject matter, and it reveals his personal response to slavery. The theme of salvation from the novel depicted here can be read as both salvation for Eva and the salvation for all slaves. By painting this work, Duncanson announced his stance on slavery and “his hope for a religious basis for resolving the slavery question.”(p. 47)


    Artworks




    Exhibitions


    1842 Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Statuary, Western Art Union, Cincinnati, OH


    1843 Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Statuary, Western Art union, Cincinnati, OH


    1864 Art Association of Montreal, Montreal, Canada


    1865 Art Association of Montreal, Canada Dublin Exhibition, Ireland


    1871 Western Art Gallery, Detroit, MI


    1943 Balmoral Castle, Scotland, Museum of Modern Art, NY


    1953 Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO


    1955 Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH


    1961 Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis, IN


    1967 Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.


    1970 La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA


    1971 Bowdoin College, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME


    1972 Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH


    1972 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA


    1976 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA


    1979 Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI


    1983 National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.


    1992 National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.


    1996 Washington University, St. Louis, MO


    1999 To Conserve a Legacy- American Art from History, Black Colleges and Universities," Studio Museum in Harlem, NY


    2003 Then and Now: Selection of 19-20th Century Art by African American Artists, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI


    2009 Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH


    See also



    External links



    Monday, August 19, 2013


    The phrase soccer mom broadly refers to a North American middle-class suburban woman who spends a significant amount of her time transporting her school-age children to their youth sporting events or other activities. Indices of American magazines and newspapers show relatively little usage of the term until a 1995 Denver city council election. It came into widespread use during the 1996 United States presidential election.



    History


    The phrase soccer mom generally refers to a married middle-class woman who lives in the suburbs and has school age children. She is sometimes portrayed in the media as busy or overburdened and driving a minivan or SUV. She is also portrayed as putting the interests of her family, and most importantly her children, ahead of her own. The phrase derives from the literal, specific description of a mother who transports and watches her children play soccer. It was also used in names of organizations of mothers who raised money to support their children's soccer teams.The first reference to "Soccer Mom" in the local press was in 1966 the Springfield Press, Springfield, Pa when Ray Lynch Director of Springfield AA published weekly articles Thanking the local "Soccer Moms" for their support at the weekly games The first reference to the phrase soccer mom in the US national media has been traced to 1982. In that year, Joseph Decosta, the husband of the treasurer of the "Soccer Moms booster club" of Ludlow, Massachusetts, stole $3,150 raised for the benefit of a local soccer league.


    Indices of American magazines and newspapers show relatively little usage of the term until 1995 when, during an election for Denver city council, Susan B. Casey ran with the slogan "A Soccer Mom for City Council." Casey, who had a PhD and managed presidential election campaigns, used the slogan as a way of assuring voters they could trust her to be "just like them," denoting herself as "everyneighbor." The phrase addressed anxiety about women's achievements, and the stereotype that smart, accomplished women were not able to manage professional careers and still show love for their family. Casey won the election with 51% of the vote.


    The term came into widespread use near the time of the 1996 Republican National Convention. The first use of the term in a news article about that election appeared in the July 21, 1996 edition of The Washington Post. E. J. Dionne, the article's author, quoted Alex Castellanos (at the time a senior media advisor to Bob Dole) suggesting that Bill Clinton was targeting a voting demographic whom Castellanos called the "soccer mom." The soccer mom was described in the article as "the overburdened middle income working mother who ferries her kids from soccer practice to scouts to school." The article suggested that the term soccer mom was a creation of political consultants. Castellanos was later quoted in The Wall Street Journal as saying "She's the key swing consumer in the marketplace, and the key swing voter who will decide the election."


    Media interest in soccer moms picked up as the election approached. The number of articles on soccer moms in major newspapers increased from a combined total of 12 for the months of August and September, to a total of 198 for October and November. In large part, the intense media interest stemmed from the media's belief that soccer moms had become the most sought-after group of swing voters in the 1996 elections. In the end, suburban women favored Clinton by 53 to 39, while suburban men voted for Dole.


    During the election, the soccer mom's most frequently mentioned attribute cited in major newspaper articles was that she was a mother or a woman who had children. The soccer mom's next most frequently mentioned characteristics were that "she lives in the suburbs (41.2% of the articles); is a swing voter (30.8%); is busy, harried, stressed out, or overburdened (28.4%); works outside the home (24.6%); drives a minivan, (usually Volvo) station wagon, or sports-utility vehicle (20.9%); is middle-class (17.1%); is married (13.7%); and is white (13.3%)."


    Soccer moms received so much attention during the election that the American Dialect Society voted "soccer mom" Word of the Year for 1996. The columnist Ellen Goodman of The Boston Globe called 1996 "the Year of the Soccer Mom." An Associated Press article named soccer moms – along with the Macarena, Bob Dole, and "Rules Girls" – as the four phenomena that will be forever associated with the year 1996.


    Criticism


    The phrase has taken on a negative aspect. Soccer moms are sometimes accused of forcing their children to go to too many after-school activities; overparenting them in concerted cultivation rather than letting them enjoy their childhood. In 2003, the car manufacturer Nissan, who had for several years courted the "soccer-mom" image, repositioned its Quest minivan as "stylish, sexy and desirable".


    Related terms


    Security mom


    During the 2004 presidential campaign, pundits started talking about the security mom, a successor to 2000's "soccer mom" and in theory a powerful voting bloc. Security moms were supposed to be concerned primarily with issues such as the war in Iraq, domestic terrorism, and the security of their children.


    There is evidence, however, that security moms did not exist in great enough numbers to influence the 2004 election outcome. Democratic women tended to be most interested in healthcare, which Kerry abandoned as a talking point, and may explain Kerry's trouble garnering their support.


    It is unclear why critiques of security mom's existence did not attract as much media coverage as claims about their existence and influence. One explanation is that the rhetorical construction of "security moms" was an effort to rally support for the war in Iraq and George W. Bush's reelection.


    Hockey mom


    Hockey mom is a term widely used in Canada and northern U.S. states (including Alaska), in which mothers often take their children to hockey rinks. The first article in The New York Times that used "hockey mom" as a demographic term was a 1999 review of the Chevrolet Silverado, a full-size pickup truck. In the article, the truck is described as a "smooth and gutsy" vehicle that "ought to please everyone from hockey mom to cattle hauler".


    Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, the U.S. Republican vice-presidential candidate in 2008, described herself as a hockey mom as far back as her 2006 gubernatorial race. In her speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention and in stump speeches following the convention, she joked that the only difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull was lipstick, suggesting that hockey moms are "tough". "Hockey partisans" on the internet claim that hockey moms are "a bit more intense than their soccer counterparts, both in terms of the commitments they make to the sport and the intensity with which they cheer their kids."


    See also







    Politics: Anarchism · Communism · Conservatism · Fascism · Feminism · Liberalism · Libertarianism · Men's rights · Political science · Socialism













    MainCategories and topicsTasks and projects





    The Politics Portal









    Shortcut:


    A coloured voting box.svg


    Politics are the process and method of gaining or maintaining support for public or common action: the conduct of decision-making for groups. Although it is usually applied to governments, political behavior is also observed in corporate, academic, religious, and other institutions. Political science is the field devoted to studying political behavior and examining the acquisition and application of power, or the ability to impose one's will on another. Its practitioners are known as political scientists. Political scientists look at elections, public opinion, institutional activities (how legislatures act, the relative importance of various sources of political power), the ideologies behind various politicians and interest groups, how politicians achieve and wield their influence, and so on.






    More about politics…






    Show new selections





    Selected article




    The Latin American Boom (Boom latinoamericano) was a literary movement of the 1960s and 1970s when the work of a group of relatively youthful Latin American novelists became widely circulated in Europe and throughout the world. The Boom is most closely associated with Julio Cortázar of Argentina, Carlos Fuentes of Mexico, Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru, and Gabriel García Márquez of Colombia; but it also brought fame to older writers like Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda and Ernesto Sábato. Influenced by European and North American Modernism, but also by the Latin American Vanguardia movement, these writers challenged the established conventions of Latin American literature. Their work is experimental and, owing to the political climate of the Latin America of the 1960s, often very political. "It is no exaggeration", critic Gerald Martin writes, "to state that if the Southern continent was known for two things above all others in the 1960s, these were, first and foremost, the Cuban Revolution and its impact both on Latin America and the Third World generally, and secondly, the Boom in Latin American fiction, whose rise and fall coincided with the rise and fall of liberal perceptions of Cuba between 1959 and 1971." The sudden success of the Boom authors was in large part because their works were among the first Latin American novels to be published in Europe, by publishing houses such as Barcelona's avant-garde Seix Barral in Spain. Indeed, Frederick M. Nunn writes that "Latin American novelists became world famous through their writing and their advocacy of political and social action, and because many of them had the good fortune to reach markets and audiences beyond Latin America through translation and travel—and sometimes through exile."








    ...Archive/Nominations




    More...








    Featured picture





    Andrew Curtin2.jpg








    Credit: Photo: Mathew Brady/Levin Handy; Restoration: Michel Vuijlsteke

    Andrew Gregg Curtin (1817–1894) was a U.S. lawyer and politician. He served as the 15th Governor of Pennsylvania during the American Civil War. During the Civil War, Curtin organized the Pennsylvania reserves into combat units, and oversaw the construction of the first Union military camp for training militia. After the Battle of Gettysburg, Governor Curtin was the principal force behind the establishment of the National Cemetery there. After serving two terms as governor, Curtin was appointed ambassador to Russia by Ulysses S. Grant, and he later served in the House of Representatives from 1881 until 1887.








    ...Archive/Nominations




    More...








    Did you know...




    Did you know?








    Selected biography




    Official Portrait of President Ronald Reagan in 1981


    Ronald Reagan was the 40th President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California. He was defeated in his run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968 as well as 1976, but won both the nomination and election in 1980. As president, Reagan implemented new political initiatives as well as economic policies, advocating a laissez-faire philosophy, but the extent to which these ideas were implemented is debatable. The policies, dubbed "Reaganomics," included substantial tax cuts implemented in 1981. After surviving an assassination attempt and ordering controversial military actions in Grenada, he was re-elected in a landslide victory in 1984. Reagan's second term was marked by the ending of the Cold War, as well as a number of administration scandals, notably the Iran-Contra affair. The president ordered a massive military buildup in an arms race with the Soviet Union, foregoing the previous strategy of détente. He publicly portrayed the USSR as an "Evil Empire" and supported anti-Communist movements worldwide.








    ...Archive/Nominations




    More...








    News and Current Events



    Wikinews on Politics and conflicts


    Wikinews-logo.svg




    Other current events:










    In this month






    More anniversaries...









    Selected quote








    Samuel Gompers


    We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.

    Samuel Gompers, American Federationist, May 1906








    ...Archive/Nominations



    More...







    Related portals


















    BlackFlagSymbol.svg

    Official portrait of Barack Obama.jpg

    Can-vote-stub.svg

    Hammer and sickle red on transparent.svg
    AnarchismBarack ObamaCanadian politicsCommunism















    Blue flag waving.svg

    Scale of justice 2.svg

    Flag of Europe.svg

    Free-speech-flag.svg
    ConservatismCriminal justiceEuropean UnionFreedom of speech















    GenocidePortalLogo(ESR)2.JPG

    Emblem of India.svg

    State emblem of Pakistan.svg

    Great Seal of the United States (obverse).svg
    GenocideGovernment of IndiaGovernment of PakistanGovernment of the United States















    Liberty torch drawing.svg

    Justice statue.jpg

    Yellow flag waving.svg

    P Statue of Liberty.png
    Human rightsLawLiberalismLibertarianism















    Map of NATO countries.png

    Plato-raphael.jpg

    Flag of the Philippines.svg

    SAARC.png
    NATOPolitical sciencePresidency of the PhilippinesSAARC















    P social sciences-lightblue.png

    Red flag II.svg

    Flag of the United Nations.svg

    Bluetank.png
    Social and political philosophySocialismUnited NationsWar









    Wikimedia



































    Politics on Wikibooks Politics on Wikimedia CommonsPolitics on Wikinews Politics on Wikiquote Politics on Wikisource Politics on Wikiversity Politics on Wikivoyage Politics on Wiktionary 
    Manuals and booksImages and mediaNewsQuotationsTextsLearning resourcesOpen travel guideDefinitions











































    Purge server cache


    Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Politics&oldid=546889669"

    EncyclopediakuThe owner of this website is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon properties including, but not limited to, amazon.com, endless.com, myhabit.com, smallparts.com, or amazonwireless.com.