Books: Pictures that do all the talking; Magnum Stories, edited by Chris Boot, Phaidon, pounds 45. Reviewed by Martin Faint Almost 40 years ago, The New York Times got a tip that Daniel Burrows, a former number 2 at the American Nazi Party, was Jewish. When outing works Twenty-five ye...
American Progressivism: Transnational, Modernization, and Americanist Perspectives Conservation: America’s Environmental Modernism? 3. Media, Politics, and Political Economy The Press and the Repeal of National Prohibition Modernity and Political Economy in the New Era and New Deal 4. Race and ...
(Grogan: 271) The Diggers derived their name from a group of poor English farmers with the same name, which, in the turmoil of the English Revolution in 1649-50, had formed an anarchist type of community that rejected the notion of property. The Diggers in San Francisco also pursued ‘...
To summarize, an art history grad agrees to “copy” a valuable but lesser known Dutch painting,At the Edge of a Woodby Sara de Vos (an imaginary painting by a real artist), knowing full well that it is probably going to be used as a forgery. The original is stolen and replaced with...
Since the Revolution days, when Virginia was the nurse of statesmen, the few thinkers of America born south of Mason and Dixon's line—outnumbered by those belonging to the single State of Massachusetts—have commonly migrated to New York or Boston in search of a university training. In the ...
drawback for me, to all this creative randomicity: I get bored with these games quickly.It’s as if the tedium I was trying to escape, returns, like the fabled repressed. It all reminds me of what a copywriter friend told me in the early days of the Internet: it’s a revolution, ...
Draw: "Give motion to by the act of pulling" — fromdrauen, alternate spelling of Old Englishdragan"to drag, to draw, protract". “Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence”. — Henri Matisse Print: “A mark made by impression upon a surface" — pas...
John B. Gordon were reduced to earning money by writing testimonials for Darby’s Prophylactic Fluid, a medicine manufactured in New York. (‘No family should be without it,’ declared the Confederacy’s Vice President.)” [Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New York:...
I felt like it was one of those things that you discover in a foreign culture that makes you want to write your senator about and see if you can start some sort of revolution back state-side. But the more I thought about it the more it occurred to me that it’s a rather peculiar ...
I draw linesas straight as I can. I’m fixated on accuracy. Maybe that’s just the learning curve. A handful of classes and sketching with Stephan constitutes the whole of my art education. Because I have little formal training I’m still just trying to get my hand to obey my eye. ...