Young woman in an antebellum dress and bonnet is picking flowers outside the open windows of a home. On the oval print's lower right border is photographer Kate Matthews' signature and also in her handwriting "June, 1860". Given that...
Picture of a framed, tinted print of a little girl in Dresden shepherdess attire seated on cast-iron bench in a garden. The girl is holding a hoop and stick. Kate Matthews frequently persuaded relatives and neighbors to pose in tableaux vivants, or...
Little girl with short blond hair, attired as a Dresden shepherdess, is seated on cast-iron bench in a garden. She is holding a hoop and stick. Kate Matthews frequently persuaded relatives and neighbors to pose in tableaux vivants, or living...
Elizabeth Fletcher, the photographer's niece, in the garden area at Twigmore. Kate Matthews frequently persuaded relatives and neighbors to pose in tableaux vivants, or living pictures, based on fairy tales, books, or poems. This may be one of...
Elizabeth Fletcher, wearing a light spring dress with matching hat and heels, is holding a flower up as if to show it to a bird in a birdcage. The birdcage is hanging from a large tree on the lawn of Twigmore. Elizabeth is daintily holding her...
This thesis focuses on twentieth-century poet Frank O'Hara and his relationship to painting and painters in New York in the 1950s. An examination of the concept of ekphrasis functions as a theoretical frame and substantiation for the discussion of...
Gary Snyder's poetry conveys Zen states of consciousness through unconventional grammar and syntax. From his first book Riprap in 1959 to his last collection of poems, Mountains and Rivers Without End in 1996, he has confronted the challenge of...
Full-length character portrait of actor George A. Beane, standing with head bent over a book held (closed) in his right hand, and left arm supporting his lower back. He wears his hair parted in the middle; an overcoat; and dark socks over white...
A young girl, with braids in her hair, stands facing a blackboard, apparently thinking about her next answer. Written on the blackboard are: "Cat," "rat," and an addition problem. Kate Matthews frequently persuaded relatives and...
A young woman in an antebellum dress sits with a young man on a garden bench. Kate Matthews frequently persuaded relatives and neighbors to pose in tableaux vivants, or living pictures, based on fairy tales, books, or poems. This appears to be one...
Persian poetry, written in calligraphy on handmade paper. This original fourteenth century leaf is from a calligraphic manuscript of the Divan of Hafiz, the collected poems of the poet also known as Muhammed Shamsuddin Hafiz or Shamsoddin Mohammad...
A woman wearing a costume and holding a small dagger is stooped slightly as if "ready to strike." The woman is believed to be Helen Gifford, a resident of Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Kate Matthews frequently persuaded relatives and neighbors...
Khamsah--Illustrations; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian
Persian poetry, written in calligraphy on handmade paper. One of Persia's most famous poets, the twelfth century Nizam-uddin Abu Mahommed Ilyas bin Yusuf lived most of his life in Ganja, in what now is Azerbaijan. Nizami is best remembered for his...
Wolf, Hugo, 1860-1903; Music and literature; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. West-östlicher Divan; Ḥāfiẓ, 14th cent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's West-ostlicher Divan combines the Persian influence of the fourteenth-century poet Hafiz with Goethe's own Germanic literary heritage. The result was a synthesis of symbolism and multivalent meanings that Goethe himself...
A little boy wearing overalls and a straw hat poses on a driveway or wide garden path. He is holding a bucket and gardening tools. Kate Matthews frequently persuaded relatives and neighbors to pose in tableaux vivants, or living pictures, based on...
A young boy wearing overalls and a striped shirt sits on a stool near a table. There is food on the table and a cuckoo clock over the boy's head. Kate Matthews frequently persuaded relatives and neighbors to pose in tableaux vivants, or living...
A young man holds a lamb up on a rail fence as a woman standing on the other side wraps the lamb's foot with a bandage. Another Kate Matthews photograph with this same woman carrying the lamb was published in 1897 with the title "Bringing Home...
Mary Johnston, wearing a light dress and hat and holding flowers and a small parasol, poses on the front walk at Clovercroft, Kate Matthews family home in Pewee Valley Kentucky. Kate Matthews frequently persuaded relatives and neighbors to pose in...
"This is the painting Dali took to show Freud in London. It belonged formerly to Edward James." (Caption); "At Zürs […] Dali embarked on a new experiment: the composition, in French, of a 'paranoaic' poem, The Myth of Narcissus,...
Photography--Psychological aspects; Mourning customs in art; Mourning customs in literature; Phenomenology and art
The creation of liminal spaces has been used for centuries cross-culturally to create sacred or taboo meanings in rituals, people, places, or objects. Liminality is constructed by the overlapping of cultural categories and "ruptures" an...