Visiting With the Ancestors

In 2010, five magnificent Blackfoot shirts, now owned by the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum, were brought to Alberta to be exhibited at the Glenbow Museum, in Calgary, and the Galt Museum, in Lethbridge. The shirts had not returned to Blackfoot territory since 1841, when officers of the Hudson's Bay Company acquired them. The shirts were later transported to England, where they had r…

Reality Matters19 Writers Come Clean About the Shows We Can't Stop Watching

Top Chef. Americas Next Top Model. Survivor. Dancing with the Stars. American Idol. Big Brother. The Biggest Loser Everyone has a guilty reality television pleasure. Curated by Party Girl author Anna David, Reality Matters is a collection of hilarious yet revealing essays from novelists, essayists, and journalistsincluding Toby Young, Neil Strauss, and Stacey Grenrock Woods, among many othersab…

We Are Coming Home

In 1990, Gerald Conaty was hired as senior curator of ethnology at the Glenbow Museum, with the particular mandate of improving the museum's relationship with Aboriginal communities. That same year, the Glenbow had taken its first tentative steps toward repatriation by returning sacred objects to First Nations' peoples. These efforts drew harsh criticism from members of the provincial governmen…

A Perfect RedEmpire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire

Youll finish [Greenfields] book with new respect for color, especially for red. With A Perfect Red, she does for it what Mark Kurlansky in Salt did for that common commodity.Houston Chronicle Interweaving mystery, empire, and adventure, Amy Butler Greenfields masterful popular history offers a window onto a world far different from our own: a world in which the color red was rare and preciousa…

The Total Work of Art in European Modernism

In this groundbreaking book David Roberts sets out to demonstrate the centrality of the total work of art to European modernism since the French Revolution. The total work of art is usually understood as the intention to reunite the arts into the one integrated whole, but it is also tied from the beginning to the desire to recover and renew the public function of art. The synthesis of the arts …

F--k Ivy and Everything Else

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Sargent Portrait Drawings42 Works

Portraiture is a demanding art requiring the artist to capture a likeness and render it revealing some hint of the personality behind the image. A two-pronged task, it requires great technical skill and an intuitive eye. In both these respects, John Singer Sargent stands out as a portrait artist of major stature. Born in 1856 in Florence of American parents, Sargent showed artistic aptitude at …

HandsA Pictorial Archive from Nineteenth-Century Sources

More than just a five-digit grasping appendage, the extraordinary human hand is capable of a virtually infinite range of expression. Here are over 1,100 images of hands, specially assembled by a noted graphic designer in response to the growing demand for inexpensive and royalty-free art depicting hands. Chosen for diversity and style as well as usability, these images were carefully culled fro…

German Expressionist Woodcuts

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Posada's Popular Mexican Prints

Jos Guadalupe Posada (18521913) was Mexico's most illustrious graphic artist. For over forty years he worked tirelessly as an incorruptible and truly popular artist, illustrating cookbooks and fortune-telling books, collections of songs and riddles, periodicals and newspapers, children's books and novels, and most of all famous broadsides that were distributed throughout the country. After his …