Francesca Berrini

1911-1919
Viveza - "Since the startof my exploration into mapmaking, I have become increasingly fascinated by the intersection of manmade and natural forms made visible in maps and atlases."

Francesca Berrini

Pripyat and the 30K Zone

Sinking boat on the Pripyat River, Chornobyl, October 1998

"The exclusion zone is a remarkable and surprising place, not dead and static, as one would expect, but full of growth and change." David McMillan.
Pripyat and the 30K Zone

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Matisse, 1944

"To take a photograph means to recognize - simuitaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organisation of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis." Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Wikipedia.

Carlos Cortez

Before the Disappearance

"Carlos Cortez was an extraordinary artist, poet, printmaker, photographer, songwriter and lifelong political activst. His mother was a German socialist, and his father was a Mexican Indian organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), also known as the Wobblies."
Carlos Cortez, Artwork.

Whole Earth Catalog

About Whole Earth - "Whole Earth is committed to a vision of what's needed to challenge ingrained patterns and stale assumption. Curiosity. Exploration. Independence. Community. Living fearlessly. Principles. Tools and ideas."
Whole Earth Catalog, Wikipedia. Small Is Beautiful: Wikipedia. Stewart Brand, Wikipedia. E.F. Schumacher, Wikipedia.

Sigismundus of Luxemburg

Road to Calvary, c. 1530, Turin Book of Hours (Jan van Eyck?)

"The goal of the exhibition is to present the personality and times as well as the artistic milieu of Sigismund of Luxemburg, the king of Hungary (1387), and king (1410/11) and later emperor (1433) of the Holy Roman Empire."
The Age Sigismund

Pete Seeger

"Musician, singer, songwriter, folklorist, labor activist, environmentalist, and peace advocate, Seeger was born in Patterson, New York, son of Charles and Constance Seeger, whose families traced their ancestry back to the Mayflower. Seeger grew up in an unusually politicized environment."
Pete Seeger, Wikipedia, Notable American Unitarians, Pandora.

Adrienne Rich

The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program - "Poet, essayist, and cultural critic Adrienne Rich is among the most widely admired and thought provoking writers in the United States."
Adrienne Rich, PENNSOUND

Guido Tramontano Gurreitore

" ... Milky Way, Solar Sys, Earth, Europe, Italy, Salreno.."
PBase

Ubu Gallery

Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze), Portrait Nicole Boubant. ca. 1933
Ubu Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in Art 38 Basel. "Founded in 1994, Ubu Gallery has presented approximately 60 exhibitions of 20th-century avant-garde art, with an emphasis on the inter-war period of the 1920s-1930s, particularly the Dada, Surrealist, and Constructivist movements."
Ubu Gallery, Art Basel Catalogue

Sasha Rudensky

"Sasha Rudensky was born in Moscow, Russia in 1979. She immigrated to the United Stater with her family in 1990. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 2001 with a degree in Studio Art and Russian Studies."
Sasha Rudensky

Death in Art

Marianne Stokes, Death and the maiden
"The big plague epidemic of the middle of the 14th century, which decimated approximately a third of Europe's population, was not the only one. New outbreaks occurred, and for all the inhabitants of Europe, the fear of plague was part of everyday life."
Death in Art

The Essence of Line: French Drawings From Ingres to Degas

Antoine-Louis Barye
"Welcome to this database of nineteenth-century French drawings. From revealing preparatory sketches to exquisite finished watercolors, more than 900 works by artists such as Eugene Delacroix, Honore Daumier, Paul Cezanne, and Edgar Degas illuminate the range of French art over the course of a century of innovation."
The Essence of Line

Cuba Chronicles: Elaine Ling

Havana Bayan, Havana 2002

"In Cuba, an island caught between the grandeur of old world glory and the decay of the immediate epoch, I found an urban landscape that reflects a struggle between daily life and the slow forces of Nature, and a religion that has superimposed the old world African demigods onto the new world Roman Catholic saints."
Cuba Chronicles

A Show of Emotion: Victorian Sentiment in Prints & Drawings

Myles Birket Foster, The Milkmaid, 1860

"Sentimental subjects span many genres of artistic exression, from highly finished exhibition watercolours to music sheet covers."
A Show of Emotion (V&A)

Terry O'Neill in St. James's

"Exciting images post-war photographers complete our wealth of British works of paper. Click see Terry O'Neil ... rich tones of monochrome to explore fame and fashion, repotage and social reality."
Terry O'Neill (Chris Beetles)

Cliff House Project

Owned by Martha Anderson
"The goal of this website is to preserve the visual imagery of Adolph Sutro's Victorian Cliff House. ... Sadly, its existence was short-lived. It was constructed in 1896 and, like so many wooden structures of that era, burned completely to the ground in September of 1907."
Cliff House, photo

Edward Dorn, 1929-1999

Ed Dorn with life mask, Amsterdan, 1979. Photo by Ira Cohen.

James Campbell, The Guardian, December 14, 1999. "Poet rooted in the imagery of the dispossessed, of working-class America and the mythology of the wild west. The poet Edward Dorn, who his died aged 70, had a loyal readership in Britain, despite having published little in this country for almost 25 years."
Ed Dorn/Buffalo, PENNSOUND

Fine Art In Hungary

Pushing a Cart, 1930. Jozsef Klein.

"This site is dedicated to fine art in Hungary from the beginnings in the Romanesque period up to the mid 20th century. The exhibition, opened in 1997, was continuosly developed since its opening however, it was in 2003 when an opportunity arised to redesign and significantly enhance. it." Artist Index, A, B, C...
Fine Arts in Hungary

Jason de Caires Taylor

"Creator of the world's first underwater sculplture park, Jason de Caires Taylor has gained intrenation for his unique work. His sculptures highlight ecological processes whilst exploring the intricate relationships between modern art and environment."
Jason de Caires Taylor

Women In Art

Philip Scott Johnson. "500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art".
YouTube, eggman913.

The Psychedelic '60s

Jimi Hendrix Experience. Axis: Bold as Love. Polydor, 1967.

University of Virginia Library - "Over thirty years later, we who came of age during the turbulent decade of the sixties are dismayed to realize that, to the young adults of today, those years are now ancient history."
Literary Tradition and Social Change

Santa's Ghetto

Banksy

"Santa's Ghetto is probably the world's most low-concept art event. Every year we assemble a loose collection of the great unwashed to hawk their artistic wares on high steet amongst the mindless sham and drudgery of the christmas season."
Bethlehem 2007

Terry Riley

"California Composer Terry Riley launched what is now known as the Minimalist movement with his revolutionary classic In C in 1964. This seminal work provided a new concept in musical form based on interlocking repetitive patterns."
Terry Riley

20th International Snow Sculpture Art Expo

Sun-Sentinel - "'Romantic Feelings', measuring approximately 115 feet high and 656 feet long, is designed to be the world's largest snow sculpture." Harbin of Heilongiiang Province, China.
Snow sculpture expo

Andre Joosse

"My name is Andre Joosse, born in 1975 in my hometown Goes. I work in the Eyehospital in Zierikzee and I'm also active as a part-time firefighter. As a child I always had the interest for industrial photography. Ever since my first visit to an abandoned shipyard near my home the adrenaline rush didn't stop."
UrbEXnl

Alison Garnett

FILE: A COLLECTION OF UNEXPECTED PHOTOGRAPHY - "Match Maker is a selection of matched images - mostly pairs - by art director and photographer Alison Garnett."
Alison Garnett

Gerard de Nerval

GREEN INTEGER, Monique DiDonna - "Gerard de Nerval's greatest subject was himself. Throughout his tempestuous life that ended with suicide by hanging, this French Romantic poet journeyed to distant parts of the globe in order to comprehend and articulate the demons that assailed his inner-most being." May 22, 1808 - January 26, 1855.
Gerard de Nerval, Wikipedia, Answers.com, The Lied and Art Song Texts Page, BookFinder.com, Access My Library, The Chimeras, Translated by Mark Lamoureux, Les Chimeres, The New Criterion, Translated by Daniel Mark Epstein (1), Issue No. 19 of the Marlboro Review - Diane Furtney, Penguin Classics, Hieronymo's Mad Againe: On Translating Nerval by Richard Sieburth, Quotations, Find A Grave, Pere Lachaise Cemetery, GREEN INTEGER.

John Paskievich

GEIST: IDEAS & CULTURE, Stephen Osborne. "Invisible City - John Paskievich has been photographing the North End of Winnipeg for more than thirty years, and the body of work that he had built up in that time is a revelation of the particularity of people and place."
John Paskivich

Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet, The Peasants of Flagey

Musee a'Orsay - "After the fall of the Second Empire, Courbet was elected President of the Federation of Artists. Courbet stayed in Paris while it was besieged by the Prussian armies, and when many were fleeing the capital."
Courbet Dossier

The Mercator Atlas of Europe

Portugal
British Library - "This atlas was put together in the early 1570s by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator, perhaps the best-known mapmaker of all time, to help with planning the grand tour of Europe of his patron's son, the crown prince of Cleves."
British Library

Astronomy Picture of the Day

The Fairy of Eagle Nebula
"Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer."
Astronomy Picture of the Day

Eclipse

"Eclipse is a free on-line archive focusing on digital facsimiles of the most radical small-press writing from the last quarter century Eclipse also publishes carefully selected new works of book-length conceptual unity."
Eclipse

Chinese Posters

Stefan Lanfsberger - "Through all of its long history, the Chinese political used the arts to propagate correct behaviour and thought. Literature, poetry, painting, stage plays, songs and other artistic expressions were produced to entertain, but they also were given an important didactoc function: they had to educate the people in what was considered right and wrong at any time."
Chinese Posters

Tom Verlaine

Wikiperia - "Tom Verlaine dated poet and musician Patti Smith when they were both up-and-coming artists in the burgeoning New Yory punk scene. Television released two albums, Marquee Moon and Adverture, to great critical acclaim and modest sales before breaking up in 1978. Verlaine soon released a self-titled solo album that began a fruitful 1980s solo career."
Wikiperia, The Wonder, BC Music, Just The Facts, NPR Music, NPR Music - 1, KCRW

The Chicago Project

David Moenkhaus

"Catherine Edelman Gallery is proud The Chicago Project, an online gallery devoted to new and established photographers in the Chicago area who we feel deserve recognition. We hope this site will expose local talent to a wider audience and plan on adding photographers as we find them."
The Chicago Project

Maggini Quartet

"Formed in 1988, The Maggini Quartet is one of the finest contemporary British string quartets. Renowned for their championship of British repretoire, the Maggini's acclaimed and ongoing contribution to Naxos' British Music Series has seen the Quartet's explore the music of Britten, Walton, Davies, Elgar, and Ireland."
Maggini Quartet

Leaves of Gold

St. Augustine's The City of God: The Building and Destruction of Troy
Philadelphia Museum of Art - "The Gallery: Illuminated manuscripts are hand-produced books that include drawn, painted, and gilded decoration on pages made of vellum, a specially prepared and polished animal skin."
Leaves of Gold

Nancy Rexroth

Library Hats (The House Series), 2002
Weinstein Gallery - "Nancy Rexroth is perhaps best known for her use of the Diana camera. Her photograph made with this cheap toy camera were made famous with the publication of Iowa (1977)." Artists + Nancy Rexroth...
Nancy Rexroth

John Ashbery

Melena Ryzik - "Its hallmarks included notes of surrealism, sarcasm and irony-essential qualities for urban life. He also spent several years living in Europe, principally Paris."
NYT, mtvU, PENNSOUND

Impressionism: Art and Modernity

Dancers in the Rehearsal Room with a Double Bass, 1882-85. Edgar Degas

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - "The group was unified only by its independence from the official annual Salon, for which a jury of artsts from the Academie des Beaux-Arts selected artworks medals. The independent artists, despite their diverse approaches to painting, appeared to contemporaries as a group."
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Block Prints of the Chinese Revolution

Princeton University Library - "The ephemeral collection of very rare 30 block fall into several categories: some are color prints with a minimum of text, others and black and white illustated sheets, some of which inlude current news, while others have a more general content."
Princeton University

Gustave Dore

Plate 20: I watched the water-snakes

"Gustave Dore was a world famous 19th century illustrator. Although he illustated over 200 book, some with more than 400 plates, he is primarily known for his illustrations to The Divine Comedy, particularty The Inferno, his illustrations to Don Quixote, and Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven."
Dore

Land Art

"Land Art, Earthworks or Earth Art is an art movement which emerged in America in the late 1960s and early 1970s, in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably. Sculptures are not placed in the landscape, rather the landscape is the very means of their creation."
Land Art

Philip Glass

"Through his operas, his symphonies, his compositions for his own ensemble, and his wide-ranging collaborations with artists ranging from Twyla Tharp to Allen Ginsberg, Woody Allen to David Bowie, Philip Glass his had an extraordinary and unprecedented impact upon the musical and intellectual life of his times."
Philip Glass

Epact: Scientific Instruments of Medieval and Renaissance Europe

British Museum, London

"Epact is an electronic catalogue of medieval and renaissance scientific instruments from four European museums: the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence, the British Museum, London, and the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden."
Epact

Louis Stettner

Sel, Place de Clichy - 1998

"Louis Stettner (1922-) is a celebrated American photographer whose work includes iconic images of Paris and New York. He was born and raised in Brookly, New York but moved to Paris in the 1950s, where he now lives peermanently with his family."
Louis Stettner

Deutschland. 1929

Nahebrucke, Kreuznach

Julian Littlewood - "These pictures were taken from an old coffee-table book of Germany. Other than was no text: only 304 full-page reproduction of black and white photographs with captions in five European languages."
Deutschland, 1929

Patti Smith

MySpace - "Patti Smith, born in Chicago in 1946, the oldest of four siblings, was raised in South Jersey. From an early age gravitated toward the arts and human rights issues. ... She teamed up with art student Robert Mapplethorpe and the two encouraged each other's work process. Both of them pursuing painting and drawing and she poetry."
Patti Smith, MySpace, Minnesota Public Radio, 1, 2, 3, 4

Overview of Italian Painters from 1200 to 1750

Half of the Brigands, Alessandro Magnasco

"This tour provides you an overview of Italian painters active in the period 1200-1750. By selecting a local school from the list at left (or from the map, or or the zoomed map), a list of artists grouped into time-frames of 50 years will appear."
Overview of Italian Painters from 1200 to 1750

Shaun O'Boyle

Bannerman's Isle

"I have always had an interest in archaeology and anthropology. On a whim, after taking a college anthropology course, I took a driving trip to New Mexico to 'join a dig'."
Modern Ruins Photographic Essays

Charles Hobson

"I'm an artist who uses pastel, monotype and other printmaking variation to construct images for books and works on paper. Usually working in series, I often follow a historical theme and employ the monotype as an underpainting for further work with pastel, acrylic and printed texts."
Charles Hobson

Claire Bracher

"London born gambist Claire Bracher, went in 2001 to Bremen Germany, to continue her cello studies with the renowned cellist Alexander Baillie. However, after three months of being there, she discovered the viola da gamha and has not looked back since."
Claire Bracher

Georges Seurat: The Drawings

MoMA - "Once described as 'the most beautiful painter's drawing in existence,' Georges Seurat's mysterious and luminous works on paper played a crucial role in his short, vibrant career."
Georges Seurat

Andy Goldsworthy: Roof

National Gallery of Art - "British artist Andy Goldsworthy, along with his assistant and a team of workers including four dry-stone wallers also from Britain, installed the sculpture entitled Roof on the ground level of the East Building over the winter of 2004/2005."
Andy Goldsworthy

Gertrude Stein

Composition as Explanation - "There is singularly nothing that makes a difference a difference in beginning and in the middle and in ending except that each generation has something different at which they are all looking."
Gertrude Stein, PENNSOUND

Inge Bruggeman

And Angels
"Inge Bruggeman has been making and publishing fine press artist's books under imprint INK-A! Press since 1992. In adddition to the limited edition books and broadsides you will find related art work by Inge including prints, print-objects and other mixed media works."
Inge Bruggeman