Streets; Buildings; Libraries; Hotels; Brown Hotel (Louisville, Ky.); Stores & shops; Automobile dealerships
700 block of South 4th Street at York Street looking north towards Broadway. The Louisville Public Library is to the northeast with the Brown Hotel in the distance behind it. Standard Automobile Company is on the west side of the road.
700 block of South 4th Street at York Street on the west side looking south. View from the corner of the Louisville Free Public Library of the Standard Automobile Company building and a row of houses on the west side of 4th Street.
700 block South 4th Street at York and Library Place looking north. A statute of Abraham Lincoln is on the east side in front of the library. Car dealerships are on the west side of the road before the Warren Memorial Presbyterian Church. The Brown...
Streets; Buildings; Religious facilities; Churches
800 block of South 4th Street at York Street on the west side looking south. View of 4th Street with a streetcar track running down the center of the road. The sign for the First Unitarian Church is visible on the left edge of the image. The west...
800 block of York Street on the north side of the street looking east at a delicatessen. York's Luncheon is in a small brick building. A Viscoyl oil tanker is on the street behind a construction site for sewer repairs.
"As an African-American who is able to pass as 'white', Piper has written eloquently of the social and institutional prejudices that surface when she divulges her racially mixed identity. In a text entitled 'Flying' of 1987 she wrote: 'I am...
"As in certain paintings by Francis Bacon, existential givens were made stubbornly palpable in Guston's pictures. Recurrent images such as a head with a single wide-open eye, wrist-watches, bare light-bulbs, or cigarette butts spoke of bouts...
"Autograph drawing. Schematic pen sketch for a figure on the Sistine Chapel Vault or for one of the Popes. (Florence. Casa Buonarroti. See Exhibition of drawings by Michelangelo. Catalogue edited by P. Barocchi, page 35)." (caption,...
"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...
"Duchamp's Boîte 'unpacked' in such a way that certain sections slid out to become free-standing display boards, whilst a sheaf of folders and black mounts bore other reproductions of works from his output. In all, it contained 69 items....
"Duchamp's Boîte 'unpacked' in such a way that certain sections slid out to become free-standing display boards, whilst a sheaf of folders and black mounts bore other reproductions of works from his output. In all, it contained 69 items....
"Duchamp's most outrageous Ready-Made was a urinal that he submitted as a sculpture to a New York exhibition mounted by the Society of Independent Artists in 1917. He turned it upside down, signed it 'R. Mutt' and called it a Fountain. The...
Sculpture; Mixed media; Women; Women's rights; Feminism; Feminists; Sexism; Stereotyping; Discrimination; Sex; Genitals; Body parts; Human body; Biology; History; Arts & crafts; Dinner parties; Celebrations; Parties; Guests; Dining tables;...
"Each of the ceramic plates adorning the table in this installation was individualized. In this photograph, the Georgia O'Keeffe plate on the right owed something of its original design to her Black Iris paintings of the mid-1920s. The plate...
Photographs; Stats; Reproductions; Collages; Language; Slogans; Graphic design; Inscriptions; Lettering (Layout features); Advertisements; Advertising; Feminism; Women; Social aspects; Social classes; Social life; Social justice; Social values;...
"Given her interest in writing, it is not surprising that [Kruger] soon began to incorporate words into her art. Her new mode - large-scale black and white images reshot from scavenged photos and interpolated with a written message - debuted...
Photographs; Stats; Reproductions; Collages; Language; Slogans; Graphic design; Inscriptions; Lettering (Layout features); Advertisements; Advertising; Feminism; Women; Social aspects; Social classes; Social life; Social justice; Social values;...
"Given her interest in writing, it is not surprising that [Kruger] soon began to incorporate words into her art. Her new mode - large-scale black and white images reshot from scavenged photos and interpolated with a written message - debuted...
