In this comprehensive guide, expert
woodworker Michael Dunbar provides complete, illustrated
instructions for replicating Federal style tables, chairs, beds,
chests, mirrors, desks and candlestands. He addresses Federal
furniture from the point of view of those who lived through the time
as well as the perspective of the craftsmen who built it.
The Federalist Era
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government, economy, and foreign policy. Led by figures like George
Washington, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson,
this era saw the creation of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights,
the First Bank of the United States, and the rise of America’s first
political parties
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Visions From an American Dreamland
"Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland" will be the first major
exhibition to use visual art as a lens to explore the lure that Coney
Island exerted on American culture over a period of 150 years. An
extraordinary array of artists viewed Coney Island as a microcosm of the
American experience, from its beginnings as a watering hole for the
wealthy, through its transformation into an entertainment mecca for the
masses, to the closing of Astroland Amusement Park following decades of
urban decline.
From early depictions of “the people’s beach” by Impressionists
William Merritt Chase and John Henry Twachtman to modern and
contemporary images by photographers Diane Arbus and Walker Evans, Red
Grooms, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Reginald Marsh, Joseph Stella, Swoon and George
Tooker, Coney Island will investigate America’s playground as a place
and an idea.
Coney Island was the birthplace of the modern American mass-culture
industry, and the constant novelty of the resort made it a seductively
liberating subject for artists. What these artists saw from 1861 to 2008
at Coney Island and how they chose to portray it varied widely in style
and mood over time, mirroring the aspirations and disappointments of the
era and of the country. Taken together, these tableaux of wonder and
menace, hope and despair, dreams and nightmares, become metaphors for
the collective soul of a nation.
Coney Island features more than 140 objects—paintings, drawings,
photographs, prints, posters, architectural artifacts, and carousel
animals—supplemented by ephemera and film clips.
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