Exhibition buildings; Buildings; World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition (1884-1885 : New Orleans, La.); Salt
Large sculpture of a woman carrying a container on her shoulder, apparently constructed from salt. On the pedestal is the title 'Lot's Wife' and below are rows of small bags. On a sheet of paper are the words 'Pure Rock Salt' and 'American Salt...
Two-story wooden building on the corner of Sixteenth and Magazine, Louisville, Kentucky. The windows of the shop on the ground floor appear to be covered in white paper or cloth on the inside (or perhaps the picture has faded too much). Signs...
Souvenir folder of postcards from Memphis, Tennessee. Images in this folder depict public buildings, including the auditorium, hospitals, and a library; parks, monuments and gardens; various banks and other business buildings; Southwestern College...
Teachers; Students; Education; Classrooms; Children
A woman stands beside a large pad of paper, looking on as a boy works with the words on the pad. The woman appears to be teaching spelling or reading to a group of children; the words on the pad are separated into syllables. Two other children look...
Broadcasting; Schneider Hall (Louisville, Ky.); College administrators; College presidents; University of Louisville--Presidents; Today show (Television program);
University of Louisville's executive vice president, Woodrow Strickler (back row, arms crossed), former Mayor Charles Farnsley (middle) and President Philip Davidson (right) watch behind the scenes as "Today" with host Dave Garroway...
Students; University of Louisville--Buildings; Threlkeld Hall (Louisville, Ky.); Dormitories
A student reads the day's paper in her room on the girls' side of Threlkeld Hall on January 12, 1969. Threlkeld Hall Dorm Candids - January 12, 1969. People: Yvonne Graves.
Installation at the Mary Boone Gallery, New York, 5-26 January 1991. Photographic silkscreen on paper, floor lettering vinyl paint, dimensions variable according to location.
Paintings; Oil paintings; Abstract paintings; Abstract works; Collages; Colors; Men; Musicians; Entertainers; Monks; People associated with religion; People associated with entertainment & sports; Music ensembles; Performances; Music; Guitars;...
"Synthetic Cubism marked a return to bright color. Whereas Analytic Cubism fragmented objects into abstract geometric forms, Synthetic Cubism arranged flat shapes of color to form objects. Picasso's Three Musicians - a clarinetist on the left,...
"In a darkened room, Dine, acting the part of 'car' in a silver-sprayed cap and raincoat, swerved to avoid 'hits' from the raking 'headlights' attached to fellow performers. The lights went on and off amid clatterings and amplified collision...
Performance art; Performances; Women; Artists; Painting; Brooms & brushes; Blood; Bodily functions; Anatomy; Genitals; Human body
"Retrospectively this performance reads as a proto-feminist riposte to Yves Klein's usurpation of the female 'trace' of five years earlier [Anthropometries of the Blue Age, performance, 9 March 1960]." (Caption, p.105); "[…] Fluxus...
"Between 1970 and 1987 Zofia Kulik carried out performances in her native Poland with fellow artist Przenyslaw Kwick. Her more recent photographic works contain a 'time-based' aspect in that, rather than constituting montages made up from...
"The sacks used in these canvases often displayed stenciled letters relating to their commercial origins. This suggests some link with the German prewar Dadaist, Kurt Schwitters who made collages from printed waste paper. However, Burri,...
