The power of place
Subtitle: defining material culture in pre-1900 Texas, the lower south, and the southwest
By: Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Contributors: Grauer, Michael R., 1961- contributor; Dudley, Tara A., contributor; Monroe, Alexis (Alexis Claire), contributor; Creech, Melinda, contributor; Armandroff, Olivia, contributor; Blackmore, Lydia, contributor; Duggan, Sarah, contributor; David B. Warren Symposium; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Series: David B. Warren Symposium -- volume 8; David B. Warren Symposium -- v. 8.
Publisher: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Houston, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780890902035
Copyright date: 2022
Subjects: History; Art; Decorative arts; Bayou Bend Collection
Other titles: Defining material culture in pre-1900 Texas, the lower south, and the southwest
Description: One of the greatest cultural treasures in the state of Texas, Bayou Bend is renowned for its superb collection of early American and 19th-century Texas decorative arts and paintings. To honor Bayou Bend's founding director emeritus and his passion for American material culture, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, established the David B. Warren Symposium, seven scholars examined how the power of place influenced nd helped define material culture in Texas, the Lower South, and the Southwest before 1900 within a national and international context. The resulting papers, extensively illustrated and documented, are published in this volume.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / -- Bonnie A. Campbell; title: As far as the eye could see: the Bugbees from New England to the West Texas Plans  -- Michael Grauer; title: A very valuable man: enslaved builders and the making of Texas  -- Tara A. Dudley; title: The magisterial gaze in slave territory: Henry Cheever Pratt's Coons rancho as plantation painting  -- Alexis Monroe; title: The material culture and the cultural landscape of the Polley Mansion, Whitehall  -- Melinda Creech; title: William J. Frederich's scrapbook: a palimpset of the visual landscape of a Galveston man in the 1880s  -- Olivia Armandroff; title: New Orlean's place in the mahogany trade  -- Lydia Blackmore; title: Gaineswood geography: how commerce routes and climate shaped life on an Alabama plantation -- Sarah Duggan.