Large paddle boat or paddle steamer docked on the Mississippi River in Memphis, Tennessee. To the right is the shore with a few horse-drawn carriages. On the levee in front of the boat is a small house and horse-drawn carriages at the bridge...
Railroad tracks; Electric railroads; Railroads; Canals
Four sets of railroad tracks with fields on either side. Electric poles and lines run parallel to the tracks. A train is on the left set of tracks with a person sitting on the top of one of the cars. A second train is on one of the middle sets of...
Men; Charts; University of Louisville. School of Education
Two men examining charts; one man is seated at a desk or table and the other stands beside him, pointing at a chart. One chart appears to map a communications system and the other appears to be a Gantt chart graphing curriculum development.
Several people look over information tables and posters that appear to describe various kinds of pollution. A map titled "OPEN YOUR EYES" leans against one of the tables. A mannequin wearing a surgical mask stands in the foreground...
University of Louisville--Faculty; University of Louisville--Students; International students; Students;
Mrs. Meta Riley Emberger confers with international students in the English Laboratory on the University of Louisville Belknap Campus. The students sit around a table; Emberger stands behind them. There is a large bookcase full of books behind her...
Southern Police Institute; University of Louisville--Faculty; University of Louisville--Students; Law enforcement training; Classrooms; Teachers; Students;
Rolland Soule teaching a class of police officers in the first class of the University of Louisville's Southern Police Institute (SPI). Soule stands in front of a group of men in desk chairs. He points to a large map beside him; there are a table...
Oil and acrylic on canvas. “Salle has cultivated a very urbane way of representing stereotypes, taken from the mass media and the world of art, which has affinities with Jasper Johns’ early classicism, such as the Target with Boxes. Parts of...
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...
Paintings; Mixed media; Women; Nudes; Beauty; Aesthetics; Body image; Human body; Body parts
Corps de Dames series, 1950; "Child art, which had been a major source of interest for early twentieth-century modernists such as Joan Miró or Paul Klee, was a source here. This was annexed to an adult desire to recover primordial fantasies...
"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...
Sculpture; Metalwork; Maps; Industrialization; Industry; Economic & social conditions; Social aspects; Industrial arbitration; Social classes; Wealth; Poverty; Economic & industrial aspects
"Fabro made his first sculpture in the Italia series in 1968. Dozens of variations followed in subsequent years. Another theme established in 1968 was that of 'Feet'. This involved the artist in producing a series of bizarre sculptural...
