Books by "Porter Cornelius Bliss"

4 books found

Modern Art on Display

Modern Art on Display

by K. Porter Aichele

2016 · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Modern Art on Display: The Legacies of Six Collectors is structured as a sequence of case studies that pair collectors of modern art with artists they particularly favored: Duncan Phillips and Augustus Vincent Tack; Albert Barnes and Chaim Soutine; Albert Eugene Gallatin and Juan Gris; Lillie Bliss and Paul Cézanne; Etta Cone and Henri Matisse; G. David Thompson and Paul Klee. The case studies are linked by a thematic focus on the integral relationship between the collectors’ acquired knowledge about the work they amassed and their innovative display models. This focus brings a new perspective to the history of collecting and interpreting modern art in America for nearly half a century (1915-1960). By examining the books the collectors themselves read and analyzing archival photographs of their displays, the author makes a case for the historical significance of how the collectors presented the art they acquired before their collections were institutionalized.

The Conquest of Turkey, Or, The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire, 1877-8

The Conquest of Turkey, Or, The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire, 1877-8

by Linus Pierpont Brockett, Porter C. Bliss, Porter Cornelius Bliss

1878

Benevolent Empire

Benevolent Empire

by Stephen R. Porter

2017 · University of Pennsylvania Press

Stephen Porter examines political-refugee aid initiatives and related humanitarian endeavors led by American people and institutions from World War I through the Cold War. The supporters of these endeavors presented the United States as a new kind of world power, a Benevolent Empire.

Six Thousand Years of History: American history

Six Thousand Years of History: American history

by Edgar Sanderson, John Porter Lamberton, Charles Morris

1910