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Town House
In this abundantly illustrated volume, Bernard Herman provides a
history of urban dwellings and the people who built and lived in
them in early America. In the eighteenth century, cities were
constant objects of idealization, often viewed as the outward
manifestations of an organized, civil society. As the physical
objects that composed the largest portion of urban settings, town
houses contained and signified different aspects of city life,
argues Herman.
Taking a material culture approach, Herman examines urban domestic
buildings from Charleston, South Carolina, to Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, as well as those in English cities and towns, to better
understand why people built the houses they did and how their homes
informed everyday city life. Working with buildings and documentary
sources as diverse as court cases and recipes, Herman interprets
town houses as lived experience. Chapters consider an array of
domestic spaces, including the merchant family's house, the
servant's quarter, and the widow's dower. Herman demonstrates that
city houses served as sites of power as well as complex and often
conflicted artifacts mapping the everyday negotiations of social
identity and the display of sociability.
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Thornton Dial
Thornton Dial (1928-2016), one of the most important artists in the American South, came to prominence in the late 1980s and was celebrated internationally for his large construction pieces and mixed-media paintings. It was only later, in response to a reviewer's negative comment on his artistic ability, that he began to work on paper. And it was not until recently that these drawings have received the acclaim they deserve. This volume, edited by Bernard L. Herman, offers the first sustained critical attention to Dial's works on paper.
Concentrating on Dial's early drawings, the contributors examine Dial's use of line and color and his recurrent themes of love, lust, and faith. They also discuss the artist's sense of place and history, relate his drawings to his larger works, and explore how his drawing has evolved since its emergence in the early 1990s. Together, the essays investigate questions of creativity and commentary in the work of African American artists and contextualize Dial's works on paper in the body of American art.
The contributors are Cara Zimmerman, Bernard Herman, Glenn Hinson, Juan Logan, and Colin Rhodes.
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Hannah Mary’s Corn Pone
Sweet potatoes flourish in sandy soil. Strawberries announce the advent of spring. Figs sweeten the landscape in August. Canada geese flock to harvest cornfields in winter. Oysters, drum fish, mullet, clams, and spot add a signature dimension to coastal tables, but so, too, do local preparations for stewed pork and pumpkin, black duck and dumplings, peas and doughboys, and sweetened cornbread. The foodways of the coastal South offer a lot more than seafood. Corn pone, as regional fare and culinary concept, covers a good deal of territory, but Hannah Mary’s pone offers a glimpse into a dish well seasoned with Eastern Shore associations that embrace relations between the well-to-do and the poor, black and white, and memory and practice. Here, the author discusses the dish's preparation and the history of the recipe.
Journal Article
The Scent of Corn
For those who might not know, the difference between field corn and sweet corn is significant. Noah Hultgren of the Minnesota Corn Growers Association (admittedly far removed from the South) gets to the point.
Journal Article
On Southern Things
Material culture is best understood as the history and philosophy of objects. It proceeds from the idea that objects, tangible and imagined, locate the entirety of human experience and understanding. We are simply creatures that know and make sense of the world and our places within it through things. Southern things superintend the vast and diffuse array of objects that ground the many, often conflicted, sometimes nostalgic ideologies of a regional identity that is at once singular and plural. The question that emerges at the heart of this collection of essays, images, and poems is not what are southern things, but rather how are things southern. Each of the contributions that follow provides a fragment of an answer. Southern things are not necessarily objects with regional pedigrees discovered through metrics of makers, locales, collections, and consumers. Southern things are those objects that are shaped, molded, and presented to the world as an amalgam of many deeply conflicted identities forged in a crucible of race and class and connected to a region and its diaspora. How else can you reconcile the nascar circuit in California or the blues in Chicago or red velvet cupcakes served with claret at Selfridges in London or the unending reinvention of poverty foods (for example, shrimp and grits) as haute cuisine? To grasp how southern things do this work invites some thoughts on how we might go about the critical practices of engaging things through interpretive acts.
Journal Article
Thornton Dial: September 10, 1928–January 25, 2016
The undercurrent of the quiltmakers' celebration in the contemporary art world was for Mr. Dial a dual recognition: the creation of objects of beauty provides its own liberating force; the enthusiastic public reception of the quilts in museums reflects the limits of that liberation. When he stated, \"birds have got to roost,\" he shared an optimist's view of history where truth, justice, and equality blossomed as social and moral realities, where love ruled-not \"sex love,\" as he once stated, but a love between men and women that could border on the sacred.
Journal Article
Panfish: Spot On
The tide is rising and soon enough will seep under the sills and into the dock end of the venerable shucking house, sheeting over the old concrete floors, compelling H. M. and his visitors first to walk on boards and then to slosh their way past the soft-shell crab shedding tanks now all but closed down for the season. \"19 Danny Doughty, who always speaks lovingly of spot, associates it with favorite sides: \"Fried apples-they were unbelievable!\" He then described their preparation: \"Cut up, leave some of the peeling on, take the core out, and tons of sugar and butter, and fry them in cast iron frying pan on top of the stove until they cook down into almost an applesauce consistency, a little bit of the body of the apple left, but just a little bit of tart and sweet and kind of a golden brown.
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Eels for Winter
If you want to catch eels in a hurry, visit a soft-shell crab shedding operation. The eels, now ready for the smoker, are lifted from their brine, dried, rolled first in olive oil and then chopped parsley snipped from the kitchen garden and black pepper from the store (we can't grow every- thing here although we might try). Sitting around for fifty minutes while the eels absorb the flavors of smoke and seasoning and drip their rendered fat onto the coals is work I can do, usually with the aid of a glass of something in hand.
Journal Article
Town house : architecture and material life in the early American city, 1780-1830
In this abundantly illustrated volume, Bernard Herman provides a history of urban dwellings and the people who built and lived in them in early America.In the eighteenth century, cities were constant objects of idealization, often viewed as the outward manifestations of an organized, civil society.
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