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Monique's kindergarten

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Description: "Michael Kenna's photographs from the Waldorf kindergarten are a homage to childhood and a paean to the imaginative potential of children's play. He came to know the kindergarten and Monique Grund first as a parent of his daughter, Olivia, and then as an artist who saw in the stuff of the place an emblematic presentation of the spirit of childhood. The images are the result of many sessions over several years in the kindergarten"--From introduction.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1997]
Call number: 653099
Creator: Kenna, Michael(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 3923922558; 9783923922550

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"How can a sustained thirty-year career be an aberration? This is a time of turbulence and edge, but should we dismiss someone who knows that and yet consciously chooses to make pictures that offer order, harmony, and respite? The energy that critics may wish to be in his work is expended in the doing, in the creation of over a dozen separate, coherent projects and thousands of single images. With the same discipline that he applies to long distance running, Kenna distills and refines. He is not turning off his critical faculties, but rather employs them to pay homage. The rebel in Kenna responds, 'I derive so much satisfaction from photography precisely because I've had the luxury of not caring what the art world thinks of my work. I have been able to use the medium as a way to help choose my personal journey or pilgrimage through this life. Most of the places I've photographed I chose because I wanted to acknowledge them and indeed pay homage to them...I haven't tried to be different or break any rules. I couldn't care less what the rules are anyway.'"--From introduction.

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Miscellaneous: Articles and typewritten manuscripts [Peer, Ralph and Monique], (1949-1956)

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Included: How to Live Longer by Ralph Peer; Unusual Journalist by Ralph Peer; Camellia Adventures in Hong Kong by Monique Peer; The Love of Camellias by Monique I. Peer; Camellias Around the World by Ralph Peer; Camellia Tour of Great Britain - 1950 by Ralph and Monique Peer; Camellias Abroad - 1950 by Ralph and Monique Peer; Camellia Journey - 1950 by Ralph Peer; European Camellia Tour by Ralph Peer; Life Before Hollywood by Monique Peer; Camellias in Unusual Places by Ralph Peer; Search for the Yellow Camellia by Ralph Peer; Chinese Camellia by Ralph Peer; Japanese - American Goodwill Camellia Garden by Ralph Peer; Camellias of the Future by Ralph Peer; The Camellia Family Tree by Ralph Peer; Camellias in the U.S.S.R by Ralph Peer; Camellias in America by Ralph Peer; New Varieties of Camellia Reticulata by Ralph Peer; My Favourite Camellias by Ralph Peer; New Southern California Varieties; New Camellias During the Next Ten Years by Ralph Peer; Saluenensis x Reticulata by Ralph Peer; Are Societies Useful? By Ralph Peer; New Camellia Book from Australia by Ralph Peer; Present Trends Among Camellias in the USA by Ralph Peer; Species Camellias by Ralph Peer; Solving Camellia Mysteries by Ralph and Monique Peer; Newly Discovered Chinese Reticulatas for Southern California Camellias Gardens; Camellia Reticulata in California by Ralph Peer; Most Versatile Species by Ralph Peer; The Camellia Sasanqua in the United States of America; Preface; Speech Made in Birmingham, Alabama by Ralph Peer; Report of Mr. Hall - Tree Surgeon; Camellias in Yunnan by Ralph Peer; More About the Yellow Camellia by Ralph Peer; and Pink Princess; and Procedures

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Ratcliffe Power Station

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"Kenna's first photographs of the Ratcliffe power station were made in the early 1980s. They show dense emissions of smoke and steam interacting with clouds to form an almost undifferentiated chiaroscuro. I would describe the feel of Kenna's Ratcliffe project as crepuscular, in that the photographs invariably take on the tonal quality of a partially lit ecosphere peculiar to the photographer and his subject. Kenna is a brilliant manipulator of half-light. HIs grainy, spatial topography brings to mind the grey skies of Northern England that were the ubiquitous backdrop to his childhood. Kenna's Ratcliffe photos create the impression of an atmospherically foggy day. They register the homeostasis of a mood that is a dominant characteristic of this work"--From introduction.

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Abbie Gilbert, Ridgefield Kindergarten, 1905-1906

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One scrapbook of original artwork created by Abbie Gilbert. Written on the front cover, in ms. is Abbie Gilbert, Ridgefield Kindergarten, 1905-1906. The scrapbook is 36 pages in length, and is covered with two pieces of heavy cardboard, and bound with yellow ribbon ties. It contains 8 examples of colored paper weaving, 8 examples of yarn sewing (pictures and designs sewn onto paper), and 13 original crayon drawings, all created by Abbie Gilbert. All of the crayon drawings are either titled or labeled, in ms., in an adult's hand. The first page contains an image of Friedrich Froebel, with a ms. label below, reading: "Friedrich Froebel. Founder of the Kindergarten." The last page contains 3 mounted Perry Pictures images. Accompanying the scrapbook is a postcard image of a kindergarten. The label on the verso reads "Bennington's experimental kindergarten, the brainchild of German educator Friedrich Froebel, uses his blocks and ideas of 'directed play' that revolutionized education. 1896."

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Kindergarten Set

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One boxed painting and drawing set entitled Kindergarten Set, ca. 1915. The set is comprised of two blind embossed painting cards for painting, three stencil cards, four embossed cakes of watercolor paint, a small pencil, and a metal paint mixing tray with 12 small, rectangular wells. The bottom of the cardboard box serves as the divided tray to hold the materials. The top lid is decorated with a chromolithograph of a young boy painting at an easel. The title is on the top lid. No manufacturer is named; no manufacture date is given. The two image cards are unpainted; the three stencil cards have been used; all are in good condition.

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Photographs of Imadegawa Kindergarten and Christian missionaries in Japan

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A group of nine large, mounted photographs depicting the Imadegawa Kindergarten in Kyoto, Japan; Japanese teachers and medical workers; and American Christian missionaries in Kobe, Japan. The Imadegawa Kindergarten was one of many Christian kindergartens established by American missionaries in 19th century Japan. Six photographs dated 1903 show Japanese children in the classroom or outdoors with their American and Japanese teachers. A group photograph depicts members of the American Board Mission in Japan, including prominent educators Annie L. Howe and Eliza Talcott. The photographs have credits for photographers K. Hino, M. Hori, and S. Kobayashi of Kyoto.

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