Robert Ashley
Photo by Joanne Savio, 2006
"Robert Ashley, a distinguished figure in American contemporary music, holds an international reputation for his work in new forms of opera and multi-disciplinary projects."
Robert Ashley, Wikipedia, PENNSOUND
"Robert Ashley, a distinguished figure in American contemporary music, holds an international reputation for his work in new forms of opera and multi-disciplinary projects."
Robert Ashley, Wikipedia, PENNSOUND
David Alfaro Siqueiros
Wikipedia - "David Alfaro Siqueiros (Dec. 29, 1896 in Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico - Jan. 6, 1974 in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico) was a social realist painter (muralist), and also a Stalinist, known for large murals in fresco that established the 'Mexican Mural Renaissance' together with work by Diego Rivera, Orozco, and others."
Wikipedia, Artcyclopedia, Image results
Wikipedia, Artcyclopedia, Image results
Stanko Abadzic
Forgotten Bicycle, 1998
Alan Griffiths - "These black and white photographs show every day life in the Czech capital of Prague, a city that Stanko loves deeply."
Abadzic
Alan Griffiths - "These black and white photographs show every day life in the Czech capital of Prague, a city that Stanko loves deeply."
Abadzic
Karl Doyle
Mother Child - Mongolia
"Karl Doyle's unique vision and affinity for diverse cultures is rooted in an early fascination with nomadic gypsies in his birthplace of Ireland - a group whose individuality and exotic visual appeal serve as one of the artist's earliest and most profound memories."
Obsolete
Obsolete
Ron Padgett
Photo by Ulla Montan
"Beginning in the mid-1960s the Padgetts visited Kenward Elmslie and Joe Brainard at the former's house in northern Vermont each summer for fifteen years. Then they constructod their own abode nearby."
Ron Padgett, Poets.org, PENNSOUND
"Beginning in the mid-1960s the Padgetts visited Kenward Elmslie and Joe Brainard at the former's house in northern Vermont each summer for fifteen years. Then they constructod their own abode nearby."
Ron Padgett, Poets.org, PENNSOUND
Astor Piazzolla
piazzolla.org - "Astor Pantaleleon Piazzolla was born on March 11, 1921 in Mar del Plata, Argentina, only child of Vicente 'Nomino' Piazzolla and Asunta Mainetti. In 1925, the family relocates to New York City until 1939 with a brief return to Mar del Plata in 1930."
Piazzolla, Wikipedia, Todo Tango, Musicolog, Sterns Music, ToTANGO, Video
Piazzolla, Wikipedia, Todo Tango, Musicolog, Sterns Music, ToTANGO, Video
Creating French Culture
Pierre Bersuire, Decades, after 1480
"Throughout French history the powerful have sought to harness culture to their own ends. They understood that the representation of power - what today we call 'image' - is form of power itself."
Library of Congress Exhibitions
"Throughout French history the powerful have sought to harness culture to their own ends. They understood that the representation of power - what today we call 'image' - is form of power itself."
Library of Congress Exhibitions
Patrick Winfield
"This view is from a ridge overlooking the forest floor and lake below. The white snow on the lake and the forest floor is so amazing unifies the whole piece."
Patrick Winfield
Patrick Winfield
Red Detachment of Women
Wikipedia - "The Red Detachment of Women ... is a Chinese ballet which premiered in 1964. It is perhaps best known in the West as the ballet performed for US President Richard Nixon on his visit to China in 1972."
Red Detachment of Women, NYU, Internet Archive
Red Detachment of Women, NYU, Internet Archive
Bill Beckley
Oh to Be Young Again, Carefree and Gay, Kerhonkson - 2005
"Beckley's work of the past five or six years looks as the new millennium, and yet for years he has exchanged the ruled line of the minimalists for the less predictable linearity of stems and branches."
Bill Beckley
"Beckley's work of the past five or six years looks as the new millennium, and yet for years he has exchanged the ruled line of the minimalists for the less predictable linearity of stems and branches."
Bill Beckley
McClellan Street
David Turnley
"These photographs of McClellan Steet by david and Peter Turniey, taken in 1972-73, help us understand how America came to be the country that it is today."
McClellan
"These photographs of McClellan Steet by david and Peter Turniey, taken in 1972-73, help us understand how America came to be the country that it is today."
McClellan
Cai Guo-Qiang
Drawwing for Transient Rainbow, 2003
"These explosion projects, both wildly poetic and ambitious at their core, aim to estabilsh an exchange between viewers and the larger universe them."
Cai Guo-Qiang, Guggenheim, art:21, Wikipedia, Artcyclopedia
"These explosion projects, both wildly poetic and ambitious at their core, aim to estabilsh an exchange between viewers and the larger universe them."
Cai Guo-Qiang, Guggenheim, art:21, Wikipedia, Artcyclopedia
Ian Curtis
Wikipedia - "In May 1980, on the eve of the Band's first American tour, Curtis, overwhelmed with depression, committed suicide. Joy Division's posthumously released second album, Closer, and the single 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' became the band's highest charting releases. After the death of Curtis, the remaining members refored as New Order, achieving significant critical and commercial success."
Joy Division Central, Ian Curtis, Wikipedia, Joy Division, Video
Joy Division Central, Ian Curtis, Wikipedia, Joy Division, Video
Kim Cogan
Save Domino
The San Francisco Bay Guardian - "His oil paintings capture contemporary life in all its beauty and absurdity, inspired by the works of artists such as Richard Diebenkorn, Edward Hopper, and Antonio Lopez Garcia, he strives toward developing a visual language of his own."
Gallery Henoch, Kim Cogan
The San Francisco Bay Guardian - "His oil paintings capture contemporary life in all its beauty and absurdity, inspired by the works of artists such as Richard Diebenkorn, Edward Hopper, and Antonio Lopez Garcia, he strives toward developing a visual language of his own."
Gallery Henoch, Kim Cogan
Eugene Guillevic
Bloodaxe Books - "Carnac (1961) marks the beginning of Guillevic's mature life as a poet. A single poem in several parts, it evokes the rocky, sea-bound, unfinished landscape of Brittany with its sacred objects and its great silent sense of waiting."
Answers, Boston Review, Union Songs, Thema, Amazon
Answers, Boston Review, Union Songs, Thema, Amazon
Meredith Monk
"Meredith Monk is a composer, singer, director/choreographer and creator of new opera, music theater works, films and installations. A pioneer in what is now called 'extended vocal technique' and Monk creates works that thrive at the intersection of music and movement, image and object, light and sound in an effort to discover and weave together new modes of perception."
Meredith Monk, Wikipedia, New Music Box, YouTube
Meredith Monk, Wikipedia, New Music Box, YouTube
JR
"As an undercover photographer, JR transforms his pictures into posters and makes open space photo galleries out of our streets. An acute observer of our time, as comfortable in cozy neighborhoods as in urban ghettos, he question pedestrians with the exhibitions he mounts on their everyday commutes."
JR
JR
Robert Doisneau
Les Tueurs Melomanes (The Accordionist), Paris
"Robert Doisneau is one the most well known French photographers. He focused on people photography, making images of common people as he wandered through the streets of Paris and its suburbs."
Vintage Works
"Robert Doisneau is one the most well known French photographers. He focused on people photography, making images of common people as he wandered through the streets of Paris and its suburbs."
Vintage Works
Caribbean Poetry: Barbados
Houses
"To understand the significance and meaning of the poets' writings, scholars ultimately trace back to the island that gave birth to the poet's sensibility."
Virginia Commonwealth University
"To understand the significance and meaning of the poets' writings, scholars ultimately trace back to the island that gave birth to the poet's sensibility."
Virginia Commonwealth University
Jerry Spagnoli
"The images in this series are basically an attempt the camera to function as an observer/recorder of the world without too much interference from me."
Jerry Spagnoli
Jerry Spagnoli
Art Images for College Teaching
Cremona Cathedal, ca. 14th century
"The AICT website's emphasis on ancient, medieval, and Renissance European art and architecture reflects the author's research and teaching interests."
Art Images
"The AICT website's emphasis on ancient, medieval, and Renissance European art and architecture reflects the author's research and teaching interests."
Art Images
William Duckworth
"As a composer, Duckworth is considered the founder of Postminimalism, and his hour-long Time Curve Preludes for piano defines the postminimal style."
William Duckworth
William Duckworth
Stanley Greenberg
Bypass Tunnel, Hillview Reservior, Yonkers, New York, 2000
"In these arrestingly beautiful black and white photographs of the city's infrastructre, Greenberg takes us through sites which are often off limits to the public, revealing places which keep New York City working."
Edelman Gallery
"In these arrestingly beautiful black and white photographs of the city's infrastructre, Greenberg takes us through sites which are often off limits to the public, revealing places which keep New York City working."
Edelman Gallery
Eduardo Galeano
"Like all Uruguayan children, I wanted to be a soccer player. I played quite well, in fact I was terrific, but only at night when I was asleep. During the day I was the worst wooden leg ever to set foot on the little soccer fields of my country."
Wikipedia, Common Dreams, Books and Writers, Charlie Rose, The Progressive, KCRW, Fact Index, Daily Bleed, Z Magazine, Atlantic, amazon, 1
Wikipedia, Common Dreams, Books and Writers, Charlie Rose, The Progressive, KCRW, Fact Index, Daily Bleed, Z Magazine, Atlantic, amazon, 1
The National Gallery: London
Roelandlt Savery, 1576-1639
"The painting in the National Gallery's collection come from Western Europe, and their subjects reflect the history, religion and myths of the region."
National Gallery
National Gallery
Jerry Takigawa
"We live in an information-rich yet time-poor culture. I see a society that is becoming more and more disonnected from nature, disonnected from natural rhythms, cycles, and seasons. Often, this is manifested by being disonnected from our own selves."
Jerry Takigawa
Jerry Takigawa
Zoe Leonard
"Progress is always an exchange. We gain something, we give something else up. I'm interested in looking at some of what we are losing." -- Zoe Leonard
Wexner Center for the Arts, Zoe Leonard, MIT, frieze
Wexner Center for the Arts, Zoe Leonard, MIT, frieze
Steve McQueen
The ArtFund - "Queen and Country: A Project by Steve McQueen. Steve McQueen is one of Britain's most influential artists. Over the last decade he has opened up the ways in which artist work with film."
The ArtFund, Small Swords, Richard Hollis, frieze
The ArtFund, Small Swords, Richard Hollis, frieze
Gordon Matta-Clark
Wikipedia - "Gordon Matta-Clark (June 22, 1943 - August 27, 1978) was an American artist best known for his site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. He is famous for his 'building cuts,' a series of works in abandoned buildings in which he variously removed sections of floors, ceilings, and walls."
Wikipedia, QMA, Artcyclopedia, artnet, David Zwirner
Wikipedia, QMA, Artcyclopedia, artnet, David Zwirner
Robert Duncan, 1919-1988
Michael Palmer - "Let's begin with the thought that Duncan, in his poetics, embodies a series of paradoxes that at once reflect upon the antecedent poetics of what he called his 'modernist masters'."
Modern American Poetry, Wikipedia, MLA Guidelines, Robert Duncan, epc, Poetry Foundation, PENNSOUND
Virginia Rose Kane
"A unique melding of collage and papercutting, these delicate works are an artisic expression of the earths eternal mysteries that provide the viewer an opportunity to discover art and nature anew."
Viginia Rose Kane
Viginia Rose Kane
Alexander Palace
A Labour Day Loyalty Demonstration at the Hotel Astoria
Bob Atchison - "Our Russian history websites and online books present a wide array of subjects relating to Royalty, Art, the Revolution ane the Romanov Dynasty. "
Alexander Palace
Bob Atchison - "Our Russian history websites and online books present a wide array of subjects relating to Royalty, Art, the Revolution ane the Romanov Dynasty. "
Alexander Palace
Johannes Vermeer
Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665-67
Wikipedia - "Vermeer produced transparent colours by applying paint onto the canvas in loosely granular layers, a technique called pointellie (not te be confused with pointillism). No drawing have been securely attributed to Vermeer, and his painting offer few clues to preparatory methods."
Essential Vermeer, Wikipedia, Met Museum, National Gallery of Art
Wikipedia - "Vermeer produced transparent colours by applying paint onto the canvas in loosely granular layers, a technique called pointellie (not te be confused with pointillism). No drawing have been securely attributed to Vermeer, and his painting offer few clues to preparatory methods."
Essential Vermeer, Wikipedia, Met Museum, National Gallery of Art
E.J. Peiker
Julia Butterfly
"I have also expanded my love for landscape photography and am now heavily engaged in creating artistic landscape images of North America's great scenic wonders."
E.J. Peiker
"I have also expanded my love for landscape photography and am now heavily engaged in creating artistic landscape images of North America's great scenic wonders."
E.J. Peiker
Fernando Pessoa
Wikipedia - "Fernando Antonio Norueira Pessoa ... (b. June 13, 1888 in Lisbon, Portugal - d. November 30, 1935 in the same city) was a poet and writer. The critic Harold Bloom referred to his in the book The Western Canon as the most representative poet of the twentieth century, along with Pablo Neruda."
Pessoa Trunk, Wikipedia, Wikimeria, Fernando Pessoa, Academy of American Poets, Google, Condalmo
Pessoa Trunk, Wikipedia, Wikimeria, Fernando Pessoa, Academy of American Poets, Google, Condalmo
Chuck Close
Roy II, 1994
"American artist Chuck Close his been a leading figure in contemporary art since the early 1970s. Bestknown for the monumental heads he has painted in thousands of tiny airbrush bursts, thumbprints, or looping multi-color brushstrokes, Close has developed a formal analysis and methodological reconfiguration of the human face that have radically changed the definition of modern portraiture."
Chuck Close, Chuck Close 1, Wikipedia, Image results, Video results
"American artist Chuck Close his been a leading figure in contemporary art since the early 1970s. Bestknown for the monumental heads he has painted in thousands of tiny airbrush bursts, thumbprints, or looping multi-color brushstrokes, Close has developed a formal analysis and methodological reconfiguration of the human face that have radically changed the definition of modern portraiture."
Chuck Close, Chuck Close 1, Wikipedia, Image results, Video results
Meridith McNeal
"I am an intention based and content driven artist. My work is about memory and the cultural, physical and social history of a place or individuals. The ideas I set out to convey me to manifest work to best tell a particular story."
Meridith McNeal
Meridith McNeal
Hana Purkrabkova
She in combing out, 2005
"She is a unique person in the field of Czech figurative sculpture. Her typical material is raw fire-clay with pating or fine colour tones, as well as in bronz sculptures."
Hana Purkrabkova
"She is a unique person in the field of Czech figurative sculpture. Her typical material is raw fire-clay with pating or fine colour tones, as well as in bronz sculptures."
Hana Purkrabkova
Trading Places
"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
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