“I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray visits these eyes, waking at once I cry; Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me? And from within a thrilling voice replies, Thou art in Rome! A thousand busy thoughts rush on my mind, a thousand images; and I spring up as girt to run a race!” - Samuel Rogerssenex_roma_lantz45"cercate e troverete"(seek and ye shall find)17 syllable poetry (5-7-5 form)inspired byJohn MiltonWilliam Shakespeare

One need only look at one of Leonardo’s paintings to realize that he was a man of great genius, but the vast range of that genius is not fully appreciated until one has read his notebooks. Very little is revealed there about the man as a person, but very much about his genius. It is not so much the fact that the notebooks are not a diary as it is that the external facts of life, love, friendship, and the like, are unimportant when placed beside the life of the mind. The notebooks are a rec...

Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provocative and complex personalities of the 1970s’ artworld. In Where Is Ana Mendieta? art historian Jane Blocker provides an in-depth critical analysis of Mendieta’s diverse body of work. Although her untimely death in 1985 remains shrouded in controversy, her life and artistic legacy provide a unique vantage point from which to consider the history of performance art, installation, an...

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A Picture can tell you more than you think.InstaScrapBook: 2012 contains handpicked photographs that I have taken throughout 2012.Images are from my own Instagram feed found here:http://instagram.com/VlogWithSid

This is an art book on the politics of urban conflict based around artist Stan Douglas' stunning photo installation of the same name, depicting a violent confrontation in 1971 between police and Vancouver's counterculture known as the Gastown Riot.The book, which features essays by Alexander Alberro, Serge Guilbaut, and others, addresses various issues raised by Douglas' work, including the suppression and assimilation of the counterculture. It also includes other works from Dougla...

They met in 1949 when Art was a reporter for Life. Shay followed Algren around with a camera, gathering pictures for a photo-essay piece he was pitching to the magazine. Life didn’t pick up the article, but Shay and Algren became fast friends. Algren gave Shay’s camera entrance into the back-alley world of Division Street, and Shay captured Algren’s poetry on film. They were masters chronicling the same patch of ground with different tools.Chicago’s Nelson Algren is the compilation ...

Golfers wanting to know the colourful stories behind names like Alcatraz, Biarritz, Cleopatra, Dell, Eden, Postage Stamp, and Redan can now turn to the only book ever devoted exclusively to the par-three hole. In Golfs Finest Par Threes Tony Roberts and Michael Bartlett have assembled what they call a "an exemplary collection of the most spectacular, historic, challenging, and unusual one-shot holes on the planet."The heart of the book is the authors list of the 100 greatest par threes in...

Salvador Dalí is one of the most widely recognised and most controversial artists of the twentieth century. He was also an avant-garde filmmaker - collaborating with such giants as Luis Buñuel, Walt Disney and Alfred Hitchcock - though the impetus and endurance of his fascination with film has rarely been given the attention it merits.King surveys the full range of Dalí's eccentric activities with(in) the cinema. Influenced by the Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton and Stanley Kubrick, D...

In the early 1940s as the conflict between the Axis and the Allies spread worldwide, the U.S. State Department turned its attention to Axis influence in Latin America. As head of the Office of Inter-American Affairs, Nelson Rockefeller was charged with cultivating the region’s support for the Allies while portraying Brazil and its neighbors as dependable wartime partners. Genevieve Naylor, a photojournalist previously employed by the Associated Press and the WPA, was sent to Brazil in 1940...

We’re the states who thought of uniting into the best country in the world, and we’re the only country that thought of making the word part of our name. Brazil doesn’t call itself Brazil of America.” So we’ve got a right to call ourselves America” for short, any time we want. It’s a beautiful word, and everybody knows it means us.Andy Warhol carried a camera with him everywhere he went and America, a mélange of text and image whose photographs w...

In addition to his many remarkable paintings and drawings, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) left behind a fascinating and voluminous body of correspondence. This highly accessible book includes a broad selection of 265 letters, from a total of 820 in existence, that focus on Van Gogh’s relentless quest to find his destiny, a search that led him to become an artist; the close bond with his brother Theo; his fraught relationship with his father; his innate yearning for recognition; and his gre...