Research, Resources, Perspectives
Commenting on his famous work Le Penseur, or The Thinker, a century ago, the French sculptor Auguste Rodin described his subject in terms of its utter (masculine) physicality. “What makes my Thinker think is that he...
The handwriting on this fascinating image taken inside the British Museum Library, ca. 1906, reads, “More than forty miles of shelves, two millions of books, and ‘of the making … is no end.’” The...
Here are the photographs from which the current selection of randomized header images on this blog were drawn. All of these images are housed at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. What do these...
New Deal poster by the Illinois WPA Art Project, Chicago, ca. 1936–41 Source: Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/98508155/, which offers a high-resolution version.[/caption]
