Three-quarter length portrait of actor Hans Roberts, possibly in costume for a role in "Checkers." He is wearing an unbuttoned suit jacket, white checked vest with pocket watch fob, and white necktie, and has his hands in his pants...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Portrait paintings; Allegorical paintings; Allegories; Symbols; Irony; Allusions; Politics & government; Economic & political systems; Economics; Political elections; Political campaigns; Rooms & spaces;...
"In this painting Haacke's use of allegorical detail has an ironic air of academic exactitude. For instance, the marble sculpture of Pandora, pointedly placed on the Victorian table next to Margaret Thatcher, is based on one produced in 1890...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Opera singers; Women; Costumes; Posing
Three-quarter length character portrait of soprano Johanna Gadski Tauscher standing in front of bucolic set backdrop of trees and stream, wearing regal attire (dress and crown). Johanna Gadski was born June 15, 1872, in Anklam (Pommern), Prussia....
A young girl, wearing a dress and apron, carries a wicker basket and tall stick, or staff, as she walks alongside a flock of geese in a field. Photographer Kate Matthews' signature is on the lower right corner of mount. Also handwritten on album...
Young Iva Barbee drives a flock of geese down a creek bed in a reenactment of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale "Everything in the Right Place." According to an inscription written by Kate Matthews on another print of this image...
Photographs; Portrait photographs; Advertisements; Advertising; Selling; Commercialism; Commerce; Business & finance; Business enterprises; Industry; Puns (Visual works); Products; Art objects; Feces; Bodily functions; Cans; Containers; Men;...
The Artist [Piero Manzoni ] with 'Merda d'artista' [Artist's Shit], at Angli Shirt Factory, Herning, Denmark, 1961. "This provocative image of Manzoni with one of his cans of excrement could be seen as a rejoinder to photographic images of...
Performance art; Performances; Painting; Body painting; Locomotion; Human locomotion; Artists; Men; Dandies; Women; Nudes; Audiences; Spectators; Orchestras; Music ensembles; Musicians; Sitting; Musical instruments; Clothing & dress; Suits...
"This performance exemplifies Klein's participation in the masculinist tradition of the dandy. The self-contained male, renouncing biological productivity (symbolized by the 'fecundity' of the paint-covered women launching themselves at...
