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Nineteenth-century stoneware by enslaved and free potters living in
Edgefield, South Carolina, highlights the central role of Black
artists in the region's long-standing pottery traditions
Recentering the development of industrially scaled Southern pottery
traditions around enslaved and free Black potters working in the
mid-nineteenth century, this catalogue presents groundbreaking
scholarship and new perspectives on stoneware made in and around
Edgefield, South Carolina. Among the remarkable works included are
a selection of regional face vessels as well as masterpieces by
enslaved potter and poet David Drake, who signed, dated, and
incised verses on many of his jars, even though literacy among
enslaved people was criminalized at the time. Essays on the
production, collection, dispersal, and reception of stoneware from
Edgefield offer a critical look at what it means to collect,
exhibit, and interpret objects made by enslaved artisans. Several
featured contemporary works inspired by or related to Edgefield
stoneware attest to the cultural and historical significance of
this body of work, and an interview with acclaimed contemporary
artist Simone Leigh illuminates its continued relevance. Published
by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University
Press Exhibition Schedule: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
(September 9, 2022-February 5, 2023) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
(March 6-July 9, 2023) University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann
Arbor (August 26, 2023-January 7, 2024) High Museum of Art, Atlanta
(February 16-May 12, 2024)
A nineteenth century French priest discovers something in his
mountain village at the foot of The Pyrenees, which enables him to
amass and spend a fortune of millions of pounds. The tale seems to
begin with buried treasure and then turns into an unprecedented
historical detective story - a modern Grail quest leading back
through cryptically coded parchments, secret societies, the Knights
Templar, the Cathar heretics of the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries and a dynasty of obscure French kings deposed more than
1,300 years ago. The author's conclusions are persuasive: at the
core is not material riches, but a secret - a secret of explosive
and controversial proportions, which radiates out from the little
Pyrenees village all the way to contemporary politics and the
entire edifice of the Christian faith. It involves nothing less
than...the Holy Grail.
Here is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the
clinical, pathological, and research aspects of motor neuron
disease (MND). The text contains all essential features of the
anatomy, physiology, pharmacology and toxicology of the motor
system, a full description of MND and its variants, as well as
historical developments and a review of the current concepts and
controversies. This book comes at a time of increasing interest in
neurodegenerative disorders and MND in particular. It will prove a
key reference book with an integrated overview of the field, and
will be indispensable to practicing neurologists, researchers, and
all those with an interest in MND.
Top down leadership techniques are outdated. Today's
organisations are horizontally networked and constantly changing.
They need leaders who can adapt, accept risk, collaborate and be
transparent.
This book distils 40 years of experience into 7 accessible
skills that leaders need to thrive in business today. The 7 I's of
Leadership: Individuality, Insight, Initiate, Involve, Inspire,
Improvise, Implement.Containing case studies, examples, questions
and checklists, this book will enable you to understand the
importance of these skills and will show you how to learn and
implement them.
When residents of Wapello County, Iowa, mention Chief Wapello,
sometimes they mean the Native American who is the county's
namesake - chief of the confederated tribes of Sacs and Foxes and
the successor of Chief Black Hawk of Black Hawk War fame. And
sometimes they mean the sheet-copper statue of a Native American
which stands atop the roof of the Wapello County Courthouse. Though
he's affectionately called Chief Wapello, the statue wears a war
bonnet of a sort that the peace-loving chief of the Sac and Fox
would never have donned. Chief Wapello: The Man, The Leader, The
Statue looks at the real chief's life and his leadership at the
time when the land which became Iowa was transferred out of Native
American hands. And it surveys the history of the statue which has
become his namesake, standing atop the courthouse for 120 years
before a windstorm knocked him from his pedestal, through the major
restoration needed before he once again took his place overlooking
the Des Moines River Valley. Includes many COLOR illustrations of
the chief, the statue, and the memorial park. Illustrations
courtesy of The Lemberger Collection. For more information about
the collection, which has been called the largest and
best-documented privately-owned photography collection in the
world, visit www.mlemberger.com.
Ottumwa, Iowa has been a river town from the moment settlers chose
the spot along the banks of the Des Moines River in 1844. Islands
come and go; water levels rise and fall; floods sweep through;
bridges are built, taken down, and rebuilt. The river changes and
even moves, but it continues to provide water, food, and fun,
supporting industry and transportation - and remaining the heart of
the community. Illustrations courtesy of The Lemberger Collection.
For more information about the collection, which has been called
the largest and best-documented privately-owned photography
collection in the world, visit www.mlemberger.com.
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