"Cornell's boxes of the 1940s and 1950s consisted of achingly melancholy juxtapositions of incongruously scaled objects implying temporal and spatial poetic leaps. A Victorian child's soap bubble set would be placed against a lunar map or a...
Men; Trucks; Boxes; Hats; People; Transportation; Political elections
Two men look at a paper that one of them is writing on. They are standing in front of a truck where men are loading or unloading boxes. Some of the boxes say "Democratic Primary 3rd Magst. Dist. Woods" while others say "Republican...
Men and women work in the Slugger factory loading baseball bats into boxes labeled "Louisville Sluggers." A tall set of shelves along the side wall contains stacks of baseball bats. Four women work at stations in the room packing bats...
"Whilst implicitly acknowledging the Surrealism of [Joseph] Cornell, Arman possibly evokes [Roland] Barthes's mournful vision of commodified toys as expressed in the latter's book Mythologies (1957). Barthes wrote that in the consumerist era,...
Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods; Interiors; Basements; University of Louisville--Buildings; Mechanical systems; Debris
Dirt and mud cover piles of tangled tubing, plastic sheeting, cardboard boxes and plastic garbage cans. Pictured are the chilled water pumps that Physical Plant uses to cool the buildings. All of the motors for all of the equipment were replaced....
Kentucky Derby crowd in boxes at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, May 4, 1935. Below a shadow, the crowd stands from two levels of railed boxes; the upper rail is ornate and the lower rail is simple. Below the boxes, more spectators stand...
View from boxes during Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, May 5, 1934. Men and women stand cheering from the boxes. The second tier of boxes is edged by an ornate rail. The photograph has been touched up with paint.
Five white canvases with pupae, steel shelves with potted flowers, bowls of sugar-water solution, table, radiators, humidifiers, and live butterflies; "There was a lyrical quality to Hirst's use of butterflies' lifecycles, both in the 1991...
"One of Dali's most Freudian paintings. Indeed, the elderly gentleman helping the lady in distress seems to be Freud himself, borrowed from [Max] Ernst's Pietà or Revolution by Night." (Caption); "Illumined Pleasures is one Dali's...
"Hesse produced a series of versions of this sculpture during 1967-8. They set up an interesting dialogue with [Donald] Judd's frequent exposure of the interiors of his 'boxes'. They also respond obliquely to an iconographic tradition of...
"Judd's industrially manufactured, modular pieces, developed from 1966 onwards, were stubbornly empirical investigations of specific materials and visual effects. He shunned mystification and openly declared the nature of his structures. The...
"Here Morris presented a small rectangular structure with a door shaped as a letter 'I'. When opened the door gave on to a photograph of the artist, his phallus rhyming with the "I" connotative both of the viewers looking (eye) and...
The exterior of Kehoe's Grocery. The long but narrow brick building has a canopy over the front door reading "Kehoe's Grocery." The entryway has a number of baskets and boxes by it as well as a stand holding brooms. One of the boxes...
Blacksmith Bun Oney (sometimes referred to as Bud Oney), wearing a hat and smoking a pipe, examines the inside of a wire mesh-lined wooden tray [possibly a beehive?] beside a stack of wooden boxes. Title supplied by cataloger.
