"Asia used to be known as 'The East Indies'. Pepper, spices, medicinal drugs, aromatic woods, perfumes and silks were rare commodities in Europe, and therefore valuable."
The British Library
The British Library
Astronomischer Bilder-Atlas
Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology - "Astronomischer Bilder-Atlas is a collection of engraved plates published sometime around 1870 by W. Nitzschike of Stuttgart, Germany. They are a German translation of a set first published in England by James Reynolds in 1850."
Linda Hall
Linda Hall
Steve Reich
"From his early taped speech pieces It's Gonna Rain (1965), and Come Out (1966) to his and video artist Beryl Korot's digital video opera Three Tales (2002), Mr. Reich has embracer not only aspects of Western Classical music, but the structures, harmonies, and rhythms of non-Western and American vernaculal music, particularly jazz."
Steve Reich, Wikipedia, New England Conservatory, Whitney, NPR-1, NPR-2, Video results, YouTube-1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Abandoned Places
"You can find a set of photographs from my trips to the abandened and forgotten. There are some best interesting information about the objects and most importent informations from its history. Abandened factories, forgotten cemeteries, ruins, closed hospitals, old palaces and residences..."
Chris
Chris
Neil Young
Rock and Roll - "Neil Young is one of rock and roll's greatest songwriters and performers. In a career that extends back to his mid-Sixties roots as a coffeehouse folkie in his native Canada, this principled and unpredictable maverick has pursued an often winding course across the rock and roll landscape."
Rock and Roll, Wikipedia, Neil Young, MSN, YouTube
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
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