Paintings; Oil paintings; Photographs; Activists; Left-wing extremists; Terrorists; Dead persons; Death; Suicides; Social justice; Political issues; Politics & government; Protest movements; Opposition (Political science); Student movements;...
"[…] the German painter Gerhard Richter […] looked back mournfully on painting's loss of public function in his October 18, 1977 (1988), a cycle of 15 paintings which mimicked the appearances of blurred black-and-white photographs. Richter...
"Although resident in America, Morley was the first winner of the Turner Prize in 1984. Funded by the 'Patrons of New Art' affiliated to London's Tate Gallery, this prize was subsequently awarded annually for 'outstanding contributions' to...
Sculpture; Mixed media; Maps; Recycling; Conservation of natural resources; Economics; Economic & political systems; Political issues; Politics & government
"It was not until the end of the 1970s, in the work of a new generation of sculptors including Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Anish Kapoor, and Bill Woodrow, that the sculptural object as such, in relation to human or urban themes, reassumed...
Sculpture; Signs (Notices); Language; Electric signs; Electron tubes; Advertisements; Advertising; Slogans; Commercialism; Communication; Communication devices
"Jenny Holzer extended the use of language in art to another dimension by presenting words alone; for the viewer, looking and reading became one and the same act. […] In graduate school at the Rhode Island School of Design in the mid-1970s,...
Prints; Broadsides; Broadsides; Advertisements; Advertising; Language; Communication; Communication devices; Inscriptions; Lettering (Layout features); Punctuation; Question marks
"Jenny Holzer extended the use of language in art to another dimension by presenting words alone; for the viewer, looking and reading became one and the same act. […] In graduate school at the Rhode Island School of Design in the mid-1970s,...
A collage of a woman being photographed; a small triangular photograph in the upper left corner of the same woman in the photography studio reception room (see ULPA 1977.01.178); and a small rectangular photograph in the bottom right corner of the...
Couples; Covered walks; Theaters; University of Louisville--Buildings; Buildings;
A couple stands on the covered sidewalk, known as Garth Walk, outside the Playhouse. Constructed in 1932, Garth Walk was named after Mrs. Charles M. Garth, then president of the theater group known as the Players Club of Louisville. Originally...
A display featuring two figures hanging from gallows staged in front of the Humanities Building on the UofL's Belknap campus. There are pictures of men -- presumably executed by the Iranian regime -- by the gallows, as well as banners behind and...
A two-story white brick house with semicircular Corinthian portico, set back from a large lawn. Built in the 1860s by Edward Anderson, banker Edward Atkins bought the house in 1903 and had noted Paducah architect A. L. Lassiter transform the...
Women; University of Louisville--Buildings; Covered walks; Theaters; Buildings;
A woman in a skirt suit, penny loafers and ankle socks leans against a beam of the roof over Garth Walk, the covered sidewalk which wound around the north side of the Playhouse. Constructed in 1932, Garth Walk was named after Mrs. Charles M. Garth,...
City & town life; Streets; Banks; Automobiles; Buildings; Historic buildings; Stores & shops
Address: 208 S. Fifth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. At the intersection of Fifth and Market Streets in downtown stands the Louisville Trust Building. Oversized arches mark the entries and are repeated several stories above with smaller arched...
Address: 208 S. Fifth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The multi-story brick, stone and granite building in the foreground is Stock Yards Bank and Trust. In years past it was known as the Louisville Trust Company. Their sign is still visible on the...
Address: 208 S. Fifth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The multi-story brick, stone and granite building in the foreground is Stock Yards Bank and Trust. In years past it was known as the Louisville Trust Company. Their sign is still visible on the...
Republic Building (Louisville, Ky.); Cathedral of the Assumption (Louisville, Ky.); Office buildings; Churches; Canopies; Stores & shops; Buildings
Address: 429 W. Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Blvd.), Louisville, Kentucky. This view of Fifth Street includes the Republic Building and the Cathedral of the Assumption. The Cathedral was completed in 1852 and is one of the oldest public...
Bethel Baptist Church, a two-story brick church with a steeple, sloped roof, and turrets, was built in 1901 near the birthplace of Jefferson Davis, and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The first floor windows and the...
Theaters; University of Louisville--Buildings; Buildings; Doors & doorways;
Doors to the University of Louisville Playhouse. A display window beside one of the doors contains information on a production of "Kiss Me Kate," which was performed in 1960 and 1961. Note on back: "UofL Playhouse on Belknap Campus....
Edition of 10. "Sherman poses as a woman daydreaming. She holds a mirror, a clichéd symbol of vanity, in one hand. Momentarily her blank stare triggers a disturbing 'double-take'. She becomes a victim of crime in a police photograph, 'killed'...
Sculpture; Signs (Notices); Advertisements; Advertising; Electric signs; Electron tubes; Communication; Communication devices; Language; Slogans; Cities & towns; Night; Night photographs; Architecture; Buildings; Walls; Streets; Roads;...
Excerpt from the Survival series. "Jenny Holzer extended the use of language in art to another dimension by presenting words alone; for the viewer, looking and reading became one and the same act. […] In graduate school at the Rhode Island...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Theaters;
Front entrance of the Playhouse theater at the University of Louisville, at its original site. Originally built as a chapel for the Louisville Industrial House of Reform, it was purchased by the University of Louisville, circa 1923, as part of its...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Forestry
In the Forestry Building at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, Kentucky's forestry exhibit features rectangular wood boards displayed along two aisles. The boards are inscribed with their type of wood: "Quartered White Oak,"...
