Black Student Union (University of Louisville); Student movements; Crowds; Police; University of Louisville--Students
Police officers and a dark-shirted man look into the open door of Gardiner Hall. Members of the Black Student Union (BSU) and some of their supporters occupied the administrative offices of the College of Arts and Sciences, located inside Gardiner...
"Before" shot of the space that would become the Carden. There is furniture apparently being stored in the room, which is otherwise empty. The sign on the door reads "No loafing in basement." Also known as the Den, this facility...
Grawemeyer Hall (Louisville, Ky.); College registrars; Offices; Office furniture; Women;
Interior shot of the Registrar's Office when it was located in the Administration Building (now Grawemeyer Hall). One woman stands behind a large set of filing cabinets; another sits at a desk. There are several other desks, shelves, and cabinets...
Interior shot of the Registrar's Office when it was located in the Administration Building (now Grawemeyer Hall). Two women work behind a panelled counter; there is a picture of Grawemeyer Hall on the wall behind them. This photo was taken after a...
Cheerleading; University of Louisville--Sports; University of Louisville--Football
University of Louisville cheerleaders meet with Kent State cheerleaders before homecoming football game in Fairgrounds Stadium. Cheerleaders at University of Louisville Football versus Kent State at Fairgrounds Stadium on November 2, 1968....
Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917. Thinker; Sculpture; Public sculpture; University of Louisville--Buildings
Rodin's ""The Thinker"" in front of Grawemeyer Hall contemplates the smashed pumpkin before him. University of Louisville Belknap Campus candid shots taken on November 2, 1968.
“A reconstruction of the Dipylon (left) and Sacred gates as they might have appeared in the fifth century BC, before the forward defences [defenses] (proteichisma) and moat were added.” (caption, p.18)
"The excavation unearthed parts of a building, later identified as a porticus triplex (a portico with three arms), with dining rooms and a thermal bath complex. [...] The decoration of the porticus triplex was executed in the Fourth Style and...
"The center of the north wall is occupied by the flying figure of Apollo with his lyre. The god, crowned with a laurel wreath and wearing a light blue mantle [...]." (p.167); "The excavation unearthed parts of a building, later...
"The triumphal Arch of Constantine was erected next to the Colosseum in AD 315 to commemorate Constantine's victory over Maxentius three years earlier." (p.149); "One of four reliefs from a monument erected by the emperor Commodus...
“Illustration of a suovetaurilia, a ritual sacrifice made before the start of a military offensive. At the bottom, a pig and a sheep are being led to the sacrificial altar. The ox which was also destined for sacrifice cannot be seen in this view....
"Here is concerned with the dancers' preparations just before appearing on stage. [...] One of the dancers is seen from the back; another drinks from a glass; and a third adjusts the blue tulle flowers of her costume." (p.109)
Paintings; Oil paintings; Portraits; Portrait paintings; Men; Presidents; Politicians; Statesmen; Heads of state; Government officials; People associated with politics & government; Older people; Gestures; Sitting; Posing; Clothing & dress;...
“[…] Washington is placed in an elaborate setting equal to his importance. In the Grand Manner tradition of portraiture, his is before a velvet drapery swag and a classical column, both alluding to his high rank, and surrounded by the...
"The figure traditionally interpreted as Minerva is actually the armed personification of a subjugated people." (Caption, p. 187); "The top of the attic story, set almost 18 meters above the grade, contains holes for the cramps that...
"In the year before Pollock's premature death, Krasner made powerful collages, possibly drawing on the huge semi-abstract 'paper-cuts' that the veteran French Modernist Henri Matisse was producing around this time. In one of these collages she...
"This fragment of a wall painting was among the very first ancient artworks discovered in Herculaneum after the volcanic eruption on August 23 in 79 A.D. […] This panel was executed using a technique similar to fresco painting. The design...
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...
"Having originally been taught by a pupil of Rodin and by the Paris-based sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, Richier produced work in a classical vein before the Second World War. After the war her work changed markedly. Her figures appeared...
"The painting belonged to Edward James. The 'paranoiac-critical town' is composed of elements principally from Cadaqués and Palamós." (Caption); "The reference was to Outskirts of the Paranoiac-Critical Town, one of Dali's finest...
