Orange Crush, 2007
Born, 1974, Athens, Greece.
GAVLAK
GAVLAK
Barbara Kruger
The Art History Archive - "American conceptual/pop artist Barbara Kruger was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1945 and left there in 1964 to attend Syracuse University. Early on she developed an inerest in graphic design, portrt, writing and attended poetry readings."
The Art History Archive, Barbara Kruger, Whitney Museum of American Art, Wikipedia, U. Michigan, art:21, Image results
The Art History Archive, Barbara Kruger, Whitney Museum of American Art, Wikipedia, U. Michigan, art:21, Image results
Old Staten Island
"Were there really three airports here? Was the Staten Island Airport shut down each night to ensure no peril to the patons of the drive-in theater? Did rides and trolleys really exist on the South Beach - Midland Beach Boardwalk?"
Old Staten Island
Old Staten Island
Su Blackwell
"Paper has been used for communication since its invention, either between humans or in an attempt to communicate with the spirit world. I employ accessible medium and use irreversibe, destructive processes to reflect on the precariousness of the world we inhabit and the fragility of our life, dreams and ambitions."
Su Blackwell
Su Blackwell
Images of Asia
Gate where Pipe Line starts near. Dungagali.
"Images of Asia is images of the 50 countries of the world between the Suez Canal and the Sea of Japan. Nearly 60% of the world's population. Over 3.7 billion people order of population."
Images of Asia
"Images of Asia is images of the 50 countries of the world between the Suez Canal and the Sea of Japan. Nearly 60% of the world's population. Over 3.7 billion people order of population."
Images of Asia
David Maisel
Lake Project 10
"His large-scaled photographs show the physical impact on the land from industrial efforts such as mining, logging, water reclamation, and military testing. Because these sites are often remote and inaccessible, Maisel frequently works from an aerial perspective, thereby permitting images and photographic evidence that would be otherwise unattainable."
David Maisel
"His large-scaled photographs show the physical impact on the land from industrial efforts such as mining, logging, water reclamation, and military testing. Because these sites are often remote and inaccessible, Maisel frequently works from an aerial perspective, thereby permitting images and photographic evidence that would be otherwise unattainable."
David Maisel
Sylvia Plath
Academy of American Poets - "Often, her work is singled out for the intense coupling of its violent or disturbed imagery and its playful use of alliteration and rhyme."
Academy of American Poets, Modern American Poetry, Wikipedia, My Sylvia Plath, Literary History, NPR, Stanford
Academy of American Poets, Modern American Poetry, Wikipedia, My Sylvia Plath, Literary History, NPR, Stanford
Copernicus Films
"The films in this series are on subjects such as the Soviet and Russian poet Mayakovsky, the artist and photographer Alexander Rodchenko, Meyerhold and Russian Avant-garde architecture as well as other figures of the Russian Avant-garde." Michael Craig, Copenicussun.
Copernicus Films, YouTube
Copernicus Films, YouTube
Koichiro Kurita
"The world of nature embraces, Terrasphere, Hydrosphere and Atmosphere. Each surface has a connecting border in mysterious ways. And in those expanses, all the things and phenomena including living things exist in time as independent entities."
Koichiro Kurita, John Stevenson
Koichiro Kurita, John Stevenson
Provenance Research Project
Andre Derain - L'Estaque [Paysage a l'Estaque]. 1906.
"The Museum of Modern Art owns approximately 600 painting created before 1946 and acquired after 1932, that were or could have been in Continentel Europe during the Nazi era."
MOMA
"The Museum of Modern Art owns approximately 600 painting created before 1946 and acquired after 1932, that were or could have been in Continentel Europe during the Nazi era."
MOMA
Shadow play
Wikipedia - "Shadow play ... is an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment using opaque, often articulated figures of an illuminated backdrop to create the illusion of moving images. It is popular in various cultures. At present, more than 20 countries are known to have shadow show troupes. The art form is sometimes called shadow puppetry or shadow theatre when shown under a grand presentation."
Wikipedia, Chinese, Turkey, Playing with Shadows, Greece, Oregon, Anaphoria, Wayang Kulit
Wikipedia, Chinese, Turkey, Playing with Shadows, Greece, Oregon, Anaphoria, Wayang Kulit
Keith Barrett
"This site represents my life as a politically and environmentally conscious artist. My art work explores the human relationship with landscape and the environment. I use a strong awareness of aesthetic to design form that successfully communicates its meaning."
Keith Barrett, GreenMuseum
Keith Barrett, GreenMuseum
Pharos
Pieter Brueghel II, 1564-1638. A Village Festival in honour ..., 1627
"Pharos, the lighthouse at Alexandria, was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Towering 440 feet above the harbour, it guided seafarers towards the Egyptian city, home to the great library and museum."
The Fitzwilliam Museum
"Pharos, the lighthouse at Alexandria, was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Towering 440 feet above the harbour, it guided seafarers towards the Egyptian city, home to the great library and museum."
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Historic Colorado Photographs
Lake Loveland at Loveland, Colorado
"Over the last 25 years Art Source International has assumulated over 2000 original glass plates, negatives and original photographs of Colorado. The photographs date from around 1865 to 1940."
Art Souce Interntional
"Over the last 25 years Art Source International has assumulated over 2000 original glass plates, negatives and original photographs of Colorado. The photographs date from around 1865 to 1940."
Art Souce Interntional
Francis Alys
Postmedia - "Francis Alys was born in 1959 in Antwerp, Belgium, and currently lives in Mexico City. ... When Faith Moves Mountains (2002), in which 500 people at Ventanilla, outside Lima, Peru, formed a single line at the foot of a giant sand dune and moved it four inches using shovels."
Postmedia, Hammer Museum, Carnegie International, DIA
Postmedia, Hammer Museum, Carnegie International, DIA
The Empire That Was Russia
Pinkhus Karlinskii...Supervisor of Chemigov Floodgate, 1909
"The photographs of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) offerr a vivid portrait of a lost world - the Russian Empire on the of World War I and the coming revolution."
Library of Congress
"The photographs of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) offerr a vivid portrait of a lost world - the Russian Empire on the of World War I and the coming revolution."
Library of Congress
Pablo Neruda
Nobel Winners - "Chilean poet, diplomat, and politician who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. He was perhaps the most important Latin-American poet of the 20th century."
Wikipedia, Nobel Prizes, Winners, Elementary Odes, Mother Bird, Plagiarist, Books and Writers, Emory Unv.
Wikipedia, Nobel Prizes, Winners, Elementary Odes, Mother Bird, Plagiarist, Books and Writers, Emory Unv.
Carleton E. Watkins, 1829-1916
Cape Horn, Columbia River, Oregon
The Getty - "At twenty-one, Carleton Watkins left New York and headed out to California to make his fortune. After working as a daguerreotype operator in San Jose, he established his own practice and soon made his first visit to the Yosemite Valley."
Carleton Watkins
The Getty - "At twenty-one, Carleton Watkins left New York and headed out to California to make his fortune. After working as a daguerreotype operator in San Jose, he established his own practice and soon made his first visit to the Yosemite Valley."
Carleton Watkins
Theoi Greek Mythology
Orpheus
"The site now contains more than 1,500 pages profiling the Greek gods and other characters from Greek mythology and 1,200 full sized pictures."
Theoi Greek Mythology
"The site now contains more than 1,500 pages profiling the Greek gods and other characters from Greek mythology and 1,200 full sized pictures."
Theoi Greek Mythology
Keith Morris Washington
Cordie Cheek: Junction of Route 50 & 50A, Near Columbia, TN. 1999.
AAVAD - "Media: Oil, pencil, silkscreen, lithography. Imagery: Mural sized American landscape paintings depicting individual historic lynch sites; mass gravesites in Iraq; portraiture, flowers, landscape, lynching, mourning, gravesites, African American history, family portraits."
AAVAD
AAVAD - "Media: Oil, pencil, silkscreen, lithography. Imagery: Mural sized American landscape paintings depicting individual historic lynch sites; mass gravesites in Iraq; portraiture, flowers, landscape, lynching, mourning, gravesites, African American history, family portraits."
AAVAD
Heidi Kirkpatrick
Gallipolis, Ohio 2001
Richard Speer - "She photographs antique objects - a toothbrush shaped like a naked woman, a knife adorned with a picture of Marilyn Monroe's Playboy centerfold, a salt shaker in the shape of a buxom blonde - and presents them in a curio cabinet, the photos on black mattes floating above a deep-set plane, scribbled over with cryptic, auto-biographical confessions."
Heidi Kirkpatrick
Richard Speer - "She photographs antique objects - a toothbrush shaped like a naked woman, a knife adorned with a picture of Marilyn Monroe's Playboy centerfold, a salt shaker in the shape of a buxom blonde - and presents them in a curio cabinet, the photos on black mattes floating above a deep-set plane, scribbled over with cryptic, auto-biographical confessions."
Heidi Kirkpatrick
Collier Schorr
Gate
Dominic Eichler - "Collier Schorr's immersion in the photographic - not just as an artist but also, during the 1990s, as an art writer and occasional curator - could perhaps be construed as being about a desire to make difference visible, possible and appealing."
303 Gallery
Aleksandr Rodchenko, 1891-1956
Lily Brik, 1924
Howard Schickler - "This series of portfolios is dedicated to the first ever complete examination of the photgraphic oeuvre of the noted Russian Constrsctivist artist and photographer Aleksandr Rodchenko."
Aleksandr Rodchenko
Howard Schickler - "This series of portfolios is dedicated to the first ever complete examination of the photgraphic oeuvre of the noted Russian Constrsctivist artist and photographer Aleksandr Rodchenko."
Aleksandr Rodchenko
Rick Chapman
Bent Oak, Califorrnia
"His portrait strive to explore that which ties us all together as humans, the essence of what is common to all of us. There is no formula for this. "
Rick Chapman
"His portrait strive to explore that which ties us all together as humans, the essence of what is common to all of us. There is no formula for this. "
Rick Chapman
Green Integer
"Essays, Manifestos, Statements, Speeches, Maxims, Epistles, Diaristic Jottings, Narratives, Natural histories, Poems, Plays, Performances, Ramblings, Revelations, and all such ephemera as may appear necessary to bring society into a slight tremolo of confusion and fright at least."
Green Integer
Green Integer
Vesalius
British Librarary - "De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body) is one of the most influential works in the history of Western medicine."
British Library
British Library
James Brown
Wikipedia - "As a prolific singer, songwriter, bandleader, and record producer, Brown was a pivotal force in the evolution of gospel and rhythm and blues into soul and funk. He left his mark on numerous other musical genres, including rock, jazz, disco, dance and electronic music, reggae and hip hop. Brown's music also left its mark on the rhythms of African popular music, such as afrobeat, juju and mbalax, and provided a template for go-go music."
Wikipedia, James Brown Homepage, Rolling Stone, Hall of Fame, MSN, Video results
Wikipedia, James Brown Homepage, Rolling Stone, Hall of Fame, MSN, Video results
Historical Chinese Postcard Project: 1896-1920
A loaded wheelbarrow is pulled across water
Institut des Sciences de l'Homme - "The database focuses on early (1896-1920) postcards of China. This project studies the first wave of postcards with a Chinese subject. We show them, disuss what they are, who produced them and where, how they were used, their significance - in short, their historical context."
ISH
Institut des Sciences de l'Homme - "The database focuses on early (1896-1920) postcards of China. This project studies the first wave of postcards with a Chinese subject. We show them, disuss what they are, who produced them and where, how they were used, their significance - in short, their historical context."
ISH
Francis Ponge
Wikipedia - "In his most famous work, Le parti pris des choses (1942) ..., he meticulously described common things such as oranges, potatoes and cigarettes in a poetic voice, but with a personal style and paragraph form much like an essay. ... Ponge avoided appeals to emotion and symbolism, and instead sought to minutely recreate the world of experience of everyday objects."
Wikipedia, Green Integer, Free Verse - Andrew Boobier, Preface to a Bestiary - Translated by Serge Gavronsky, BNET, The Cat Flap, Stanford, Answers
Wikipedia, Green Integer, Free Verse - Andrew Boobier, Preface to a Bestiary - Translated by Serge Gavronsky, BNET, The Cat Flap, Stanford, Answers
Bianca van der Werf
"Welcome to my personal website and porlfolio. My name is Bianca van der Werf and I was born on the 11th of october 1972 in The Hague, the Netherlands. Always drawing and painting as a child, so it was no beg surpise that I ended up at the Royal Academy of Art in the same town a few years later."
Bianca van der Werf
Bianca van der Werf
Photographic Views of Meiji
Kimbei, Mt. Fujiyama, c. 1885
Richard W. Gadd - "A strict policy of isolationism and non-interference was instituted by Japan's Shogun Tokugawa in the early 17th century, resulting in a medieval society locked in time."
Stanford
Richard W. Gadd - "A strict policy of isolationism and non-interference was instituted by Japan's Shogun Tokugawa in the early 17th century, resulting in a medieval society locked in time."
Stanford
Albert Ranger-Patzsch, 1897-1966
Schubrt & Salzer factory, Ingolstadt, Germany. 1950s.
Zabriskie Gallery - "Breaking new ground in the Bauhaus, Renger-Patzsch's photgraphy from the 1920s to 1950s excavate startling beauty and clarity from mundane sights of plants, buildings, and industrial machines."
Albert Ranger-Patzsch
Zabriskie Gallery - "Breaking new ground in the Bauhaus, Renger-Patzsch's photgraphy from the 1920s to 1950s excavate startling beauty and clarity from mundane sights of plants, buildings, and industrial machines."
Albert Ranger-Patzsch
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