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Tag Archives: USA
1910: Fifth Avenue at Twilight
Birge Harrison: Fifth Avenue at Twilight (ca. 1910)
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Tagged 1910's, 20th Century, Art, Birge Harrison, Cityscapes, New York City, Painting, USA
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1959: Capital and Labor
Sister Concilla sets the record straight on labor unions. Note the union bug indicating the comic was printed in a union shop.
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Christianity, Comics, Nuns, Popes, Religion, Strikes, Unions, USA
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1994: An Insane Premise
In an afterword to the 25th anniversary edition of Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth tells a story about the first lines of his novels. When he was living in Chicago in the late 1950’s, he says, he once went to a … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970's, 1990's, 20th Century, Autobiography, Books, Film, Judaism, Novels, Philip Roth, USA, Writing
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1965: Lo, The Mystique City
Betye Saar: Lo, The Mystique City (1965)
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Tagged African-Americans, Art, Betye Saar, Cities, Printmaking, The Moon, USA, Women
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1956: The Hound of Heaven
In 1893, English poet Francis Thompson published a poem called “The Hound of Heaven.” The work is an extended metaphor: as a hound pursues a hare in a hunt, so does God pursue the human soul to restore it to … Continue reading
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Tagged 1890's, 1930's, 1950's, 19th Century, 20th Century, Art, Christianity, Francis Thompson, Great Britain, Painting, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Robert Hale Ives Gammell, USA
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1961: The Disaster of Everyday Life
The distinction between “disaster” and “normal” conditions is implicit in most treatments of disaster behavior. The everyday, ongoing life of the society is usually equated with the “normal,” and those conditions that result from disaster are viewed as “abnormal” and … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960's, 20th Century, Art, Books, Charles Fritz, Disasters, Illustration, Mental Health, Pierre Mion, Psychology, Trains, USA
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2019: Native Land
From a series by photographer Adam Sings in the Timber: I am currently working on a broader project making a series of portraits of Native Women wearing traditional regalia in metropolitan settings, in order to illustrate that wherever a person … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010's, 21st Century, Adam Sings in the Timber, Art, Cityscapes, Native Americans, Photography, USA, Women
