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Tag Archives: France
1873: Sunset
Armand Guillaumin: Sunset over Ivry (1873)
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Tagged 1870's, 19th Century, Armand Guillaumin, Art, Factories, France, Industry, Landscapes, Painting
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1895: A-ka-u-ku
In 1895, King Njoya of the Bamum, an ethnic group from what is now western Cameroon, invented an alphabet to record the history of his people. Njoya, who traced his linaege back 16 or 17 generations of kings, was insipred … Continue reading
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Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Africa, Books, Cameroon, Colonialism, Dreams, France, Language, Njoya, Writing
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1675: Lightning
Francisque Millet: Mountain Landscape with Lightning (c. 1675)
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Tagged 17th Century, Art, France, Francisque Millet, Landscapes, Meteorology, Netherlands, Painting, Weather
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1891: Funeral
Henri Rivière: Funeral Under Umbrellas (1891)
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Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Art, Death, France, Henri Rivière, Printmaking, Rain, Weather
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1964: Oh, My Mangled Head!
In his book Alice in Many Tongues (1964), Warren Weaver spends the last chapter using a curious method to evaluate various translations of Alice in Wonderland. He takes the same passage from each translation—a portion of the Mad Tea-Party—and asks … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960's, 20th Century, Africa, Alice, Books, Children, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Language, Poetry, Poland, Russia, South America, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Translation, USA, Warren Weaver
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1938: Fire
Teresita Fernández: Fire (2005) Fire and heat provide modes of explanation in the most varied domains, because they have been for us the occasion for unforgettable memories, for simple and decisive personal experiences. Fire is thus a privileged phenomenon which … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930's, 2000's, 20th Century, 21st Century, Art, Books, Fire, France, Gaston Bachelard, Latino/as/x, Psychology, Teresita Fernández, Textiles, USA, Women
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1943: Workers and Paintings
Honoré Sharrer: Workers and Paintings (1943) I can’t identify all the paintings in this painting. Leave a comment if you can fill in the blanks: Hugo Gellert : Free Man’s Duties (No 4) … Continue reading
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Tagged 16th Century, 1850's, 18th Century, 1930's, 1940's, 19th Century, 20th Century, African-Americans, Art, Dance, Diego Rivera, François Boucher, France, Grant Wood, Honoré Daumier, Honoré Sharrer, Hugo Gellert, Jean-François Millet, Labor, Madame de Pompadour, Mirrors, Netherlands, Pablo Picasso, Painting, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Portraits, Printmaking, Spain, USA, Women
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