Posts Tagged ‘life’

4
Nov

Feed Your Head: Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet Of Wonder

   Posted by: Kenneth Rougeau    in Uncategorized

Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology
Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet Of Wonder:
Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology

In the non-Aristotelian, non-Euclidean, non-Newtonian space between the walls of the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles exist bats that can fly through lead barriers, spore-ingesting pronged ants, elaborate theories of memory, and a host of other off-kilter scientific oddities that challenge the traditional notions of truth and fiction. Lawrence Weschler’s book, expanded from an article for Harper’s, is, at turns, a tour of the museum, a profile of its founder and curator, David Wilson, and a meditation on the role of imagination and authority in all museums, in science and in life. Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder is an exquisite piece of “magic realist nonfiction” that will prove utterly captivating.

Read Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet Of Wonder!

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4
Nov

Moving Pictures: Brief Lives & Living Portraits

   Posted by: Kenneth Rougeau    in Art, Artists, Photography, Websites

Moving Pictures by Michael Williams, Richard Cahan, and Nicholas Osborn (http://www.squareamerica.com)

Don’t miss this amazing collection of photographs!

“20 animated series of photobooth strips and/or multiple photobooth images of the same person. A jittery, flickering, Frankensteinian attempt to bring old photos back to life. A couple of the series (the first and last images) are comprised of over 30 images, so they’ll take a little time to load, but they’re worth the wait!” created by Michael Williams, Richard Cahan, and Nicholas Osborn

For more, visit:
http://www.squareamerica.com

Moving Pictures by Michael Williams, Richard Cahan, and Nicholas Osborn (http://www.squareamerica.com)

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27
Sep

Alfred Stieglitz: A Powerful Influence

   Posted by: Kenneth Rougeau    in Art, Artists, Photography, art history

Alfred Stieglitz:
A Powerful Influence
Photo of Georgia O'Keeffe's hands & a cow skull by Alfred Stieglitz

Few individuals have exerted as strong an influence on twentieth century American art and culture as the photographer and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz. Through his New York galleries he introduced modern European art to this country, organizing the first exhibitions in America of work by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, & Paul Cézanne, among others & was one of the first to champion and support American modernist artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe, Arthur Dove, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, and Charles Demuth. Stieglitz believed that consumers should buy the works of living artists rather than those of dead artists, because living artists had far greater need of financial support.

To see more, visit:
Alfred Stieglitz

You should also watch
this great streaming video!

Photo of Georgia O'Keeffe's hands  by Alfred Stieglitz

images above each point to different online galleries!

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Feed Your Head:
Alfred Stieglitz
The Eloquent Eye
Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye (Documentary DVD rental on Netflix)
Alfred Stieglitz:
The Eloquent Eye

“The life and work of celebrated photographer Alfred Stieglitz are presented in this documentary feature. Stieglitz was highly influential in the rise of modern art appreciation in America, and his work established photography as an accepted artistic medium within the world of fine art. Archival imagery and interview footage of artists who worked with Stieglitz are used to illustrate the accomplishments of this prolific artist.” – Netflix.com

Rent Alfred Stieglitz:The Eloquent Eye from Netflix for just $4.99,
as opposed to the $75 or so that they wanted for the DVD on Amazon. Yikes!

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