Marconi, Guglielmo, marchese, 1874-1937; Radio broadcasting--Social aspects
This dissertation is a rhetorical analysis of Guglielmo Marconi's wireless. Texts surrounding the invention reveal intersections between technology and society and communicate information about the wireless through tropes of progress. The wireless...
Exhibitions; Exhibit booths; Model houses; Appliances
View of booths at Home Show, including Air Conditioned Refrigerators, Hart Mfg. Co. furnaces, Atlas Plaster & Supply Co., and Peerless Mftg. Corp. Model home with attached garage is visible in center, with car in driveway. Title supplied by...
Buildings; Industrial facilities; Refrigerator industry
Five- or six-story commercial building with a train passing by on the train tracks in front. The sign on top of the building reads "Progress Refrigerator Co." Painted on the side of the building is a sign reading "Louisville Tin and...
Hotels; Hotel George Washington (Jacksonville, Fla.); Automobiles
Large hotel with sign on roof reading, "Hotel George Washington, 100% Air Conditioned." A large image of Washington is superimposed over the picture of the building. The hotel is on a street corner; there are no other buildings visible....
"In de Kooning's black canvases the elimination of color was conditioned as much by financial constraints as by the need to simplify pictorial problems in the spirit of Analytic Cubism. The deliberately artless use of shiny enamel housepaints...
Posters; Billboard posters; Billboards; Prints; Lithographs; Planographic prints; Advertisements; Advertising; Exhibition posters; Exhibitions; Art exhibitions; Motion pictures; Erotic films; Erotica; Sex; Relations between the sexes; Lust;...
Lithograph billboard poster. "Koons followed up this poster with a series of explicit, human-scale, photo-based 'paintings' of the couple having sex. Characteristically, Koons asserted that his concerns were far removed from pornography. He...
Posters; Billboard posters; Billboards; Prints; Lithographs; Planographic prints; Advertisements; Advertising; Exhibition posters; Exhibitions; Art exhibitions; Motion pictures; Erotic films; Erotica; Sex; Relations between the sexes; Lust;...
Lithograph billboard poster. "Koons followed up this poster with a series of explicit, human-scale, photo-based 'paintings' of the couple having sex. Characteristically, Koons asserted that his concerns were far removed from pornography. He...
