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Isadora Williams Weaving Notebook II
No full textThis notebook was compiled by Isadora Williams, probably in the mid-1930s, during her attendance at one of the Weaving Institutes sponsored by the Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts). The notebook contains mostly instructions for weaving patterns along with weaving samples. The weaving instructions, also called weaving drafts, are in the form of typed instructions produced by weaving instructor Edward Worst and Williams' accompanying hand-written weaving drafts and notes on treadling. Many of Worst's typed drafts also include small black and white photographs of the finished weaving pattern. Isadora Williams (1884-1976) was a Home Marketing Specialist with the University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service, and was an accomplished rug weaver and a founding member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild. She attended the summer Weaving Institutes at Penland several times during the 1930s and 1940s
Isadora Williams Weaving Notebook I
No full textThis notebook (front cover is missing) was compiled by Isadora Williams, probably in the early 1930s, during her attendance at one of the Weaving Institutes sponsored by the Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts). The notebook contains mostly weaving patterns or weaving drafts in the form of typed instructions produced by weaving instructor Edward Worst and Williams' accompanying hand-written drafts. The notebook also contains some hand woven samples, Williams' notes on dyeing with natural materials, brief biographical information on Worst, printed excerpts about the early history of the summer courses by Bonnie Willis Ford, and a list of students and instructors from the 1931, 1932, and undated Weaving Institutes. Isadora Williams (1884-1976) was a Home Marketing Specialist with the University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service, and was an accomplished rug weaver and a founding member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild. She attended the summer Weaving Institutes at Penland several times during the 1930s and 1940s
Isadora Williams Weaving Notebook I, back cover
No full textThis notebook (front cover is missing) was compiled by Isadora Williams, probably in the early 1930s, during her attendance at one of the Weaving Institutes sponsored by the Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts). The notebook contains mostly weaving patterns or weaving drafts in the form of typed instructions produced by weaving instructor Edward Worst and Williams' accompanying hand-written drafts. The notebook also contains some hand woven samples, Williams' notes on dyeing with natural materials, brief biographical information on Worst, printed excerpts about the early history of the summer courses by Bonnie Willis Ford, and a list of students and instructors from the 1931, 1932, and undated Weaving Institutes. Isadora Williams (1884-1976) was a Home Marketing Specialist with the University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service, and was an accomplished rug weaver and a founding member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild. She attended the summer Weaving Institutes at Penland several times during the 1930s and 1940s
Williams Family Winthrop Collection - Accession 1784
Full text linkThe Williams Family Winthrop Collection consists of Tatlers, photographs, letters, notes, patches, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks belonging to three generations of the Williams family. Records all pertain to Winthrop. This material offers a great snapshot into the lives of a Winthrop student through several generations of the Williams and Griffith family. The members of the Williams family include Winthrop Class of 1908, Isadora Williams (1884-1976), Winthrop Class of 1926, Una Williams Johnson (1903-1999), Winthrop Class of 1942 and niece of Isadora and Una, Laura Williams Griffith (1922-2002), and Winthrop Class of 1975 and daughter of Laura, Betsy Griffith Rabon.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2824/thumbnail.jp
Liminaridade no processo de reconciliação de Cabo Verde em Eva de Germano Almeida
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Revisiting female sexual honor and femininity during the Brazilian dictatorship (1964-85) in Leilah Assunção’s Fala baixo senão eu grito and Nelson Rodrigues’ Toda nudez será castigada
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Translating and dismantling the myth: the memoirs of Isadora Duncan
Full text linkLa presente reseña ofrece un recorrido por (Des)ordenando a Isadora Duncan (2023), de Josefina Zuain. En este libro su autora propone la traducción y actualización de la lectura de la autobiografía de Duncan titulada Mi vida en vistas a volver sobre ciertas formas en las que la historia ha configurado su imagen. Para esto Zuain lleva adelante una serie de tareas que incluye la traducción de otros textos de y sobre Duncan además de la incorporación de documentos inéditos. De este modo la autora sugiere críticas, ofrece contrapuntos y cuestiona ciertas estrategias de autolegitimación a fin de desmontar el mito de Isadora Duncan como la creadora de la danza moderna, abonando una revisión de sus memorias.This review presents a tour of (Des)ordenando a Isadora Duncan (2023), by Josefina Zuain. In this book, the author proposes the translation and updating of the reading of Duncan’s autobiography entitled My Life in order to return to certain ways in which the history has configured her image. For this purpose, Zuain carries out a series of tasks that includes the translation of other texts by and about Duncan as well as the incorporation of unpublished documents. In this way the author suggests criticisms, offers counterpoints, and questions certain strategies of self-legitimization to dismantle the myth of Isadora Duncan as the creator of modern dance, supporting a revision of her memoirs.Facultad de Arte
Translating and dismantling the myth: The memoirs of Isadora Duncan
No full textLa presente reseña ofrece un recorrido por (Des)ordenando a Isadora Duncan (2023), de Josefina Zuain. En este libro su autora propone la traducción y actualización de la lectura de la autobiografía de Duncan titulada Mi vida en vistas a volver sobre ciertas formas en las que la historia ha configurado su imagen. Para esto Zuain lleva adelante una serie de tareas que incluye la traducción de otros textos de y sobre Duncan además de la incorporación de documentos inéditos. De este modo la autora sugiere críticas, ofrece contrapuntos y cuestiona ciertas estrategias de autolegitimación a fin de desmontar el mito de Isadora Duncan como la creadora de la danza moderna, abonando una revisión de sus memorias.This review presents a tour of (Des)ordenando a Isadora Duncan (2023), by Josefina Zuain. In this book, the author proposes the translation and updating of the reading of Duncan?s autobiography entitled My Life in order to return to certain ways in which the history has configured her image. For this purpose, Zuain carries out a series of tasks that includes the translation of other texts by and about Duncan as well as the incorporation of unpublished documents. In this way the author suggests criticisms, offers counterpoints, and questions certain strategies of self-legitimization to dismantle the myth of Isadora Duncan as the creator of modern dance, supporting a revision of her memoirs.Fil: Hlebovich, Ludmila. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (UNLP-CONICET); Argentina
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