“Sem au Bois” Update: The Jockey Club de Paris, ca. 1908.
"And if you happen to be an historian of Belle Epoque Paris (clever you) and recognize anyone among the caricatures, please let us know in the comments field…" -- UPDATE, May 2011: When first I wrote...
View ArticleConjuring Pan: Julius Meier-Graefe’s darkly beautiful paean to the new...
Pan. Years I-V (all published). Edited by Julius Meier-Graefe and Otto Julius Bierbaum. A complete run of all five years, bound in 21 parts as issued (altogether 347, 351, 266, 267, 279 pp.) Sm....
View ArticleContest of Realism. Novyi Lef.
Novyi Lef. Zhurnal Levogo Fronta Iskusstv. Year 1, No. 1 (January 1927) through Year 2, No. 12 (December 1928) (all published). 24 issues, published in 22 vols. as issued, comprising a complete first...
View ArticleUnder the Matzos Tree.
52 Examples of Jewish-American Sheet Music from the Early 20th Century. A collection of English-language sheet music, ca. 4-8 pp. each, in orig. color illus. wrrps., most published in New York, Boston,...
View ArticleAnni di piombo. The Lead Years, 1968-1982.
“Anni di piombo” (“The Lead Years”) has little nostalgic resonance in the US. Unlike “Mai ‘68”, which instantly evokes exhilarating scenes of French student occupations, demonstrations, police...
View ArticleA Collection of Leftist Political Posters, 1960-2010
Cuba, OSPAAAL (Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa, and Latin America), 1971 and 1972 Extensive and Culturally Significant Archive of Approximately 500 Political Posters. An...
View ArticleBreaking Gender Barriers: Women and the WPA Milwaukee Handicraft Project
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was the largest and most ambitious agency created by the United States government as part of the New Deal, established under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
View ArticleDivination and Cartomancy: An Impressive Collection of Tarot Cards
The history of tarot is long, and probably surprising to some. The earliest known surviving full deck dates to the early 15th century in Italy. Painted by Bonifacio Bembo for the Duke of Milan, it is...
View ArticleThe Political Photomontages of John Heartfield
John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld) was an important and ground-breaking artist in Germany, known as the inventor of photomontage. He anglicized his name in protest against the anti-British...
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