OCEAN A Visual Miscellany by Ricardo Henriques & André Letria Review Copy from Chronicle Books When your little sea dog is re...
I’m frequently asked to describe what I think of as visual poetry (or Vispo) so I thought I’d write a blog post about it. For me, visual poetry works in an intersection between the visual arts and poetic texts. I once heard ‘poetry’ described as a kind of giant festival. The festival is full of
Professional theatre had to be recreated after the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, for during the Interregnum period most forms of theatre had ceased, Oliver Cromwell and his Puritan governmen…
Ugo Fontana
Auricula. Illustration taken from ‘The Florist, Fruitist, and Garden Miscellany.’ Edition published 1852 by Chapman and Hall. New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library. archive.org
*The third installment, written for Wisteria & Sunshine in May. It is interesting to look back and see how the ideas for my Daybook were beginning to emerge. And now, I am a few days away from putting my Wild Simplicity Daybook on the shelves of my Etsy shop! In the original post, I created
Why are these animals in a 16th century manuscript wearing jet packs? That's the mystery Mitch Fraas, Scholar in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania...
Knud Baade, Scene from the Academy in Copenhagen. 1827 eller 1828
Colour lithograph poster advertising Gebrande Koffies De Gulden Bie, designed by Adolphe Crespin, Belgium, 1893.
For a brief moment, Soviet Russia looked like Camelot, and artists like Marc Chagall, Kazimir Malevich, and El Lissitzky banded together to paint the way toward that utopian future with the People's Art School in modern-day Belarus.
Frans Masereel. Die Stadt
Edouard Vuillard - Interieur mit Misia Natanson am Klavier, 1898 at Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe Germany
Miss Davis of No. 2 Diamond Street ran a bed house which was considered first class and visited by none but Gentlemen. Mrs. O’Neil of Pine Street near Twelfth Street, was the mistress of an elegant house. In fact, there were none better. It is said that at one time this splendid woman was, by … Continue reading "A Vintage Guide to the ‘Gay Houses’, Brothels, and ‘Ladies of Pleasure’ in 1840’s Philadelphia"
When I wrote my post about the Master Key to the Rich Ladies Treasury, a number of readers mentioned Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies. To my delight Google eBooks offers a link to the 17…
Artist Vincenzo Irolli Napoli, 30 settembre 1860 – 27 novembre 1949, Napoli
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Gas masks seem to be a fetish item for artists, photographers and image fanatici in general. Enjoy this short parade of vintage photos found on the web (some of them in "Gas mask fashion, Part 1 & 2" on DRB ) plus Ron English's "Lady in Mask" and a gas mask leather sculpt by Ukrainian artist Bob Basset (see next post dedicated to Basset's works)
Flat astrolabe and moving indicator to determine planet influence Liber Physiognomiae fine art facsimile edition The Liber Physiognomiae is a miscellany of medieval astrological and medical...
