John Cage
Wikipedia - "A pioneer of chance music, electronic music and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde of many, the most influential American composer of the 20th century."
Wikipedia, EPC, Uncyclopedia, Ubu Web Sound, Ubu Film, Video results, WNYC, WNYC-1
Wikipedia, EPC, Uncyclopedia, Ubu Web Sound, Ubu Film, Video results, WNYC, WNYC-1
Arabic Manuscripts
UNESCO - "The collection of Arabic manuscripts held in the National Library of the Czech Republic contains 200 entries. It is a component of the Oriental manunscrits collection, especially Persian, Turkish, and Indian."
UNESCO, American University of Beirut
UNESCO, American University of Beirut
German Herrera
The Invitation
"Most of these images were felt, not thought. The reason for their creation is because they can be created. ..."
German Herrera
"Most of these images were felt, not thought. The reason for their creation is because they can be created. ..."
German Herrera
Victor Reijs
Cong Abbey, County Mayo
The Picts, Maga and Other Pre-Colombian Civilization, Agates, Megaliths, Cambodia, Writing of Stones, Landscapes of Britain & Ireland, Pictures of Turkey.
Lithos Graphics
The Picts, Maga and Other Pre-Colombian Civilization, Agates, Megaliths, Cambodia, Writing of Stones, Landscapes of Britain & Ireland, Pictures of Turkey.
Lithos Graphics
The Sforza Hours
British Library - "The lavish decoration of the Sforza Hours was painted in two stages: the first around 1490 for Bona Sforza, widow of Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of Milan, and the second for her nephew's widow, Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands, who inherited the manuscript in 1504."
British Library
British Library
Jiri Kolar
Byzantine Motif
"During the 1940s, he became a member of the 'Art Group 42' and in the 1950s was imprisoned for his activities. He could publish and exhibit only shortly in the end of of the 60s."
Jiri Kolar
"During the 1940s, he became a member of the 'Art Group 42' and in the 1950s was imprisoned for his activities. He could publish and exhibit only shortly in the end of of the 60s."
Jiri Kolar
Roman Loranc
Renaissance
"Some photographers believe their their strongest work comes from exploring their immediate surroundings."
Roman Loranc
"Some photographers believe their their strongest work comes from exploring their immediate surroundings."
Roman Loranc
Joe Brainard
Kenward Elmslie - "His early paintings and assemblages showed the influence of Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, and Joseph Cornell, but Joe's work soon distingushed itself by its lyricism, wit, warmth, and generosity, combined with his penchand for making art that was unabashedly beautiful."
Joe Brainard, PENNSOUND
Joe Brainard, PENNSOUND
Ginny Felch
Anticipation
Silver Lining images - "As a child growing up in the fifties, I was given a Brownie camera by my father, a newspaper publisher in New England. I remember feeling encouraged by his compliments about my sensitivity and composition."
Ginny Felch
Silver Lining images - "As a child growing up in the fifties, I was given a Brownie camera by my father, a newspaper publisher in New England. I remember feeling encouraged by his compliments about my sensitivity and composition."
Ginny Felch
Life of the People
Distress, 1938. James E. Allen, 1894-1964.
Exhibition Overview - "Among these artists were women, African Americans, and the Mexican muralists who were so infuential at the time. The collection is particularly rich in images from the 1930s, when the turmoil and uncertainty of the Depression led increasing numbers of artists to turn toward socially relevant subject matter."
Library of Congress
Exhibition Overview - "Among these artists were women, African Americans, and the Mexican muralists who were so infuential at the time. The collection is particularly rich in images from the 1930s, when the turmoil and uncertainty of the Depression led increasing numbers of artists to turn toward socially relevant subject matter."
Library of Congress
Moja Astrofotografia
M81
"My name is Dominik Wos and I live in a small town near Warsaw. I have been in astronomy and astrophotography for some long and short time I can say."
Moja Astrofotografia
"My name is Dominik Wos and I live in a small town near Warsaw. I have been in astronomy and astrophotography for some long and short time I can say."
Moja Astrofotografia
The Endurance
"Ernest Shackleton, a British polar explorer, hired Frank Hurley to record, in still and moving pictures, an expedition to Antarctica, the last unexplored region on Earth."
The Endurance
The Endurance
Alexey Titarenko
The dresses, 1993
"His long-exposure photographs, often made of moving masses of people, are imbued with a down-trodden moodiness reminiscent of the stoies of Dostoyevsky."
len sculture
"His long-exposure photographs, often made of moving masses of people, are imbued with a down-trodden moodiness reminiscent of the stoies of Dostoyevsky."
len sculture
Mark Khaisman
"Welcome to khaismanstudio.com. Mark Khaisman was born in Kiev, Ukraine and studied art and architecture in Moscow, Russia. He currently lives and works in Philadelphia."
Mark Khaisman
Mark Khaisman
WFMU's Beware of the Blog
Adolph Wolfli
Gallery of Graphic Musical Notation - "Here's 24 examples of unusual or graphic musical notation, from the cuneiform markings of the oldest song in the world, to the graphic notation of Stockhausen, Crumh, Cage and Eno, to the painted musical invention of Adolph Wolfli."
WFMU
Gallery of Graphic Musical Notation - "Here's 24 examples of unusual or graphic musical notation, from the cuneiform markings of the oldest song in the world, to the graphic notation of Stockhausen, Crumh, Cage and Eno, to the painted musical invention of Adolph Wolfli."
WFMU
Anne Sexton
Gwendolyn Stewart
Wikipedia - "In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the manic elements of Sexton's illness began to affect hir career. She still wrote and published work and gave readings of his poetry. She also collaborated with some musicians, forming the group Anne Sexton and Her Kind, who were working to put some of her writing to music. Sexton is the modem model of the confessional poet."
Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Modern American Poetry, Plagiarist, Bibliography
Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Modern American Poetry, Plagiarist, Bibliography
The History of Visual Communication
Art Deco, Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980)
Elif Ayiter - "This website attempts to walk you througt the long and diverse history of a particuler aspect of human endeavour. The translation of ideas, stories and concepts that are largely textual and/or word based into a visual format, i.e. visual communication."
The History Visual Communication
Elif Ayiter - "This website attempts to walk you througt the long and diverse history of a particuler aspect of human endeavour. The translation of ideas, stories and concepts that are largely textual and/or word based into a visual format, i.e. visual communication."
The History Visual Communication
Jacob Carter Photography
1940 Landscape Series, 2007
"The fabric of cities stand as testament to the unrelenting development by man upon land. Layer upon layer of dense building and rebuilding: the constant urge to improve upon or change the surrounding environment has given rise to vivid cityscapes."
Jacob Carter
"The fabric of cities stand as testament to the unrelenting development by man upon land. Layer upon layer of dense building and rebuilding: the constant urge to improve upon or change the surrounding environment has given rise to vivid cityscapes."
Jacob Carter
Accent on Images
Campi Phlegri, Observations on the Volcanos of the Two Sicilies, 1776
Libraries of The Claremont Colleges - "Pictures have forcefully expressed ideas for thousands of years. Coupled with text, pictures enhance the power of the written word."
Accent on Images
Libraries of The Claremont Colleges - "Pictures have forcefully expressed ideas for thousands of years. Coupled with text, pictures enhance the power of the written word."
Accent on Images
Peter Callesen
White Hand, 2007
"A common theme in many of my works is a reinterpretation of classical fairytales as well as a more general interest in memory in connection to childhood - for instance in my performances Castle, Folding and Jukebox."
Peter Callesen
"A common theme in many of my works is a reinterpretation of classical fairytales as well as a more general interest in memory in connection to childhood - for instance in my performances Castle, Folding and Jukebox."
Peter Callesen
The Social Ethics Collection
Plowing and Reaping by Prograssive Indian, #11
The Photography Collection - "The Social Ethics Collection has 7000 images on the subjects of health, labor, poverty, criminology, race, immigration, child development, sports, settlment houses, penology, association, ghettos, Ellis Island, slums, work, hospitals/medical treatment and agiculture."
The Social Ethics Collection
The Photography Collection - "The Social Ethics Collection has 7000 images on the subjects of health, labor, poverty, criminology, race, immigration, child development, sports, settlment houses, penology, association, ghettos, Ellis Island, slums, work, hospitals/medical treatment and agiculture."
The Social Ethics Collection
Andrew Moore
Calle Bayona
Art in America - "In this exhibition of recent photos of Havana by New York photographer Andrew Moore, it's clear that Cuba also harbors a treasure trove of architectural gems, albeit in a state of woeful decay."
Andrew Moore
Art in America - "In this exhibition of recent photos of Havana by New York photographer Andrew Moore, it's clear that Cuba also harbors a treasure trove of architectural gems, albeit in a state of woeful decay."
Andrew Moore
The Heritage of the Great War
Ambulance
"This website is dedicated to the events and consequences of World War One. We put some emphasis on unorthodox and thought-provoking points of view."
The Heritage of the Great War
"This website is dedicated to the events and consequences of World War One. We put some emphasis on unorthodox and thought-provoking points of view."
The Heritage of the Great War
George Glazer Gallery
Long Island, 1897
"Antique Globes, Prints & Maps. Experience history, exploration, and human achievement. Welcome to the journey..."
George Glazer Gallery
"Antique Globes, Prints & Maps. Experience history, exploration, and human achievement. Welcome to the journey..."
George Glazer Gallery
Ken Heyman
Hemingway
Sundaram Tagore Gallery - "Born in New York City in 1930, Ken Heyman bacame interested in photography in high school. Though just a hobby for Heyman as he attended classes at Columbia College, two events would steer hir course towards a career in photography."
Ken Heyman
Ken Heyman
TAI Gallery / Textile Arts
Ceremonial Mantle, Sihuas Valley, Nasca region, Peru. 200 BC - 400? AD.
"The gallery has always specialized in art works that incorporate exquisitely beautiful image and color elements, along with an historical integrity of design-textiles originating from Ancieient Peru, Africa, and Asia, with a particular emphasis on those from India, Indonesia, and Japan."
TAI Gallery
"The gallery has always specialized in art works that incorporate exquisitely beautiful image and color elements, along with an historical integrity of design-textiles originating from Ancieient Peru, Africa, and Asia, with a particular emphasis on those from India, Indonesia, and Japan."
TAI Gallery
Amy Trachtenberg
History I, 2007 60 x 60 inches
Brian Gross Fine Art - "In these painting, the artist states, 'it has become unavoidable to evoke the natuural realm in its contemporary anxiety and beauty'. Trachtenberg works though as intuitive, process-oriented approach."
Amy Trachtenberg
Brian Gross Fine Art - "In these painting, the artist states, 'it has become unavoidable to evoke the natuural realm in its contemporary anxiety and beauty'. Trachtenberg works though as intuitive, process-oriented approach."
Amy Trachtenberg
Lucinda Williams
Lost Highway - "It's long been said that the blues - in all its forms - is one of the most potent means to transform pain into beauty. Lucinda Williams has known that since she began devouring music as a youngster growing up in Louisiana, and she's been finding new ways to perform that alchemical reaction ever since."
Wikipedia, 1, YouTube, Lost Highway, Lucinda Williams, MySpace
Wikipedia, 1, YouTube, Lost Highway, Lucinda Williams, MySpace
History of the Low Countries - 17th century
Jan Frans Eliaerts
Web Gallers of Art - "In conferring the southern provinces on his daughter, the Infanta Isabella, and on his son-in-law, Albert, Philip II gave Flanders the illusion of independence, but the country was to be ravaged by was and involved in the Spanish downfall."
Low Countries 17th
Web Gallers of Art - "In conferring the southern provinces on his daughter, the Infanta Isabella, and on his son-in-law, Albert, Philip II gave Flanders the illusion of independence, but the country was to be ravaged by was and involved in the Spanish downfall."
Low Countries 17th
David Prifti
"The wet plate process was invented in 1851, and became the most important photographic process of the 19th century. "
David Prifti
David Prifti
Y. Z. Kami
Photo by Robert McKeever
Gagosian Gallery - "Kami's silent, meditqtive painting project a quiet monumentaliy that invokes various mystical traditions culled from both the East and the West, as well as the austere Persian mausoleums and somber ruins of the ancient world."
Y.Z. Kami
Gagosian Gallery - "Kami's silent, meditqtive painting project a quiet monumentaliy that invokes various mystical traditions culled from both the East and the West, as well as the austere Persian mausoleums and somber ruins of the ancient world."
Y.Z. Kami
Michael Palmer
photo: Pieter Vandermeer
Wikiperia - "Michael Palmer (b. May 11, 1943 in Manhattan, New York) is a contemporary American poet and translator. He has worked extensively with contemporary Dance for over thirty years and has collaborated with many composers and visual artists."
Wikipedia, Academy of American Poets, Modern American Poetry, PENNSOUND.
Wikipedia, Academy of American Poets, Modern American Poetry, PENNSOUND.
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