As American settlement expanded westward in the 1860s, the U.S. government undertook large-scale investigations of its new territories. Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860 1880 presents memorable glass-plate photographs from these federal surveys. The selection includes breathtaking views of such iconic sites as Yosemite, as well as lesser-known ethnographic portraits taken by Timothy H. O Sullivan, William H. Jackson, and William Bell, among others. The accompanying essays discuss how the photographs were used to promote white settlement, how their...
As American settlement expanded westward in the 1860s, the U.S. government undertook large-scale investigations of its new territories. Images of t...
Aspiring writers are often admonished to show, not tell, an instruction that immediately speaks to the relationship between the written word and the visual world. It is a tenuous correspondence both literature and art are striving toward the same goal of depiction, but the reality they portray is shaped by their chosen tools. As Francois Brunet argues in Photography and Literature, the advent of photography posed one of the greatest challenges to writers here was an artistic medium that could almost instantly distill a scene or perspective. As Brunet shows, the result of this...
Aspiring writers are often admonished to show, not tell, an instruction that immediately speaks to the relationship between the written word and th...
As a category in art history, circulation is rooted in the contemporary context of Internet culture and the digital image. Yet circulation, as a broader concept for the movement of art across time and space in vastly different cultural and media contexts, has been a factor in the history of the arts in the United States since at least the eighteenth century. The third volume in the Terra Foundation Essays series, Circulation brings together an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars, including Thierry Gervais, Tom Gunning, J. M. Mancini, Frank Mehring, and Helene...
As a category in art history, circulation is rooted in the contemporary context of Internet culture and the digital image. Yet circulation, as a broad...
