“The following year, the heroes of the day were children. David was asked to paint Joseph Bara, the drummer who chose to die rather than shout ‘Vive le roi!’, and the young Provençal Agricol Viala. Of these two projects, one unfinished...
“The following year, the heroes of the day were children. David was asked to paint Joseph Bara, the drummer who chose to die rather than shout ‘Vive le roi!’, and the young Provençal Agricol Viala. Of these two projects, one unfinished...
"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...
"Durham's symbolic recoding of the imagery of modern America in the terms of its native Indians is interesting in relation to Joseph Beuys's use of Indian iconography for purposes of symbolic retribution. As a modernist, Beuys assumed his work...
Photographs; Composite photographs; Montages; Justice; Social justice; Social values; Economic & social conditions; Moral & ethical aspects; Ethics; Alcoholism; Men; Sleeping; Artists; Sculptors; Photographers; Heads (Anatomy); Faces;...
"Gilbert and George's presence in their photo-works can be seen as an extension of their early performance activities. They often stand apart from the other imagery in the pieces as though acknowledging the artifice involved. Moral conundrums...
"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,...
Buildings; Health care facilities; Hospitals; Gymnasiums
A low brick building with a sloping roof and a small wing with a flat roof. Part of St. Joseph's Hospital, also known as St. Joseph's Infirmary. The door is in the center of the wing, which appears at the right side of the photo....
A man stands amidst rows and rows of bourbon barrels. He wears overalls and a cap and is working with a mallet and a metal device on top of one of the barrels. The barrel tops have sequential numbers and some text printed on them. The text reads,...
A man wearing a hat, vest and bow tie poses on a mule. The man appears to be Dr. Joseph Addison Stucky. See ULPA 1982.01.529.p for a similar image of a different man. Handwritten on bottom border: 360. Title supplied by cataloger.
Buildings; Religious facilities; Synagogues; Historic buildings
Adath Israel Temple exterior, located at 834 South Third Street, between York and Breckinridge Streets, Louisville, Kentucky, with view of cars parked along Third Street. The building has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1974....
Buildings; Religious facilities; Synagogues; Historic buildings
Adath Israel Temple exterior, located at 834 South Third Street, between York and Breckinridge Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Inscription above columns reads "Mine house shall be an house of prayer for all people." The building has been...
Address: 1028 Cherokee Road. The Bonnie (a.k.a. The Highlander) was the earliest of Joseph & Joseph's suburban apartment buildings and displays two of the firm's signature characteristics: a highly decorated appearance achieved with the use of...
Address: 117 E. Spring St., New Albany. This building in downtown New Albany, Ind. is strongly reminiscent of Joseph & Joseph's Elks Club/Henry Clay Hotel building in Louisville. The Elsby Building also bears a striking resemblance to one of...
Buildings; Restaurants; Bars; Vienna Model Bakery & Restaurant (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 133-135 S. Fourth Street (Building no longer exists.) The Vienna Bakery and Restaurant was founded by German immigrant Frank L. Erpeldinger in 1893 and operated as one of downtown Louisville's premiere dining establishments until 1927....
Buildings; Canopies; Automobiles; Banks; Lincoln Savings Bank (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 136 S. Fourth Street (Demolished, 1973.) The Lincoln Savings Bank is another of the buildings for which Alfred S. Joseph served as chief architect while at Macdonald & Dodd. Its glazed tile upper and lower tiers, setting off the brick...
Address: 137 South Main Street, Lawrenceburg, Ky. The Beaux-Arts style Anderson County Courthouse is shown. The building is made of stone with four columns holding up the cornice. The top of the building is noted for its cupola with inset clock. In...
Address: 1412 Willow Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. Designed by the Joseph & Joseph architecture firm, this luxury apartment building consists of a brick building with two symmetrical wings. A car is parked by the long sidewalk leading up to the...
Buildings; Apartments; Building construction; Dartmouth Apartments (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 1416 Willow Ave. Between 1912 and 1930, 165 apartment buildings were constructed in Louisville. During this period, Joseph & Joseph built three luxury apartment buildings near Cherokee Park which are regarded as cultural landmarks: The...
