Paintings; Allusions; Anti-Americanism; Politics & government; Political issues; Capitalism; Imperialism; Wealth; Corruption; Poverty; Emigration & immigration; Social classes; Economic & social conditions; Domestic life; Child labor;...
"This enormous, collage-like painting is crammed with anti-American allusions. An electric chair sits on the plinth at the top center (the Rosenbergs were electrocuted as Russian spies in 1953). A GI nonchalantly reads a pornographic magazine....
Collage novel, plate. "He used Victorian steel engravings, which he cut and reassembled with fanatical illusionistic precision." (p.225); [Animal is a pangolin, a scaly anteater]
Paintings; Oil paintings; Commemorations; Meetings; Oaths; Pledges of allegiance; Allegiance; Politics & government; Political issues; Political activity; Political strategies; Revolutions; Opposition (Political science); Economic &...
“Four fully painted heads stand out against the enormous expanse of white ground: the abbé Grégoire, the author of tracts in defence [defense] of Jews and Blacks; Mirabeau, the celebrated orator; Barnave, a jurist from Grenoble; and...
"[...] Uncle Tom and Little Eva depicts a scene in [Harriet Beecher] Stowe's chapter 22, 'The Grass Withereth--The Flowers Fadeth [...] on the mossy banks of Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana." (p.155)
"Watercolor view of the northern exedra: it represents a trial in progress, with movable wooden structures. In the central niche can be seen the group of Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius; statues are set in the framed niches along the...
"Reconstructive elevation of the central niche in the northern exedra, with the insertion of the statuary group of Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius, from the group in Merida. The elevation shows the articulation of the order in cipollino marble,...
"There still remains a stretch of the frieze which depicts female figures intent on spinning and weaving. The scene with Minerva is set almost in the middle of the intercolumns. The goddess is identified by the conventional iconography as...
