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Marvin Newman of both the Photo League and the Institute of Design is best known professionally as one of this countrys finest sports photographers. This catalogue spans his career of capturing the Decisive Moments in sports history with an engaging memoir of shared adventure by sports writer and publisher Al Silverman. Marvin Newman:The Face of…
Overview: The four 15th-century Pastrana Tapestries, commemorating the conquest of the cities of Asilah and Tangier in Morocco by King Afonso V of Portugal in 1471, were on view in this exhibition. The tapestries were on loan from the Collegiate Church of Our Lady of the Assumption in Pastrana, Spain, which has owned the tapestries…
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Destroyed yet paradoxically preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, Pompeii and other nearby sites are usually considered places where we can most directly experience the daily lives of ancient Romans. Rather than present these sites as windows to the past, however, the authors of The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection explore Pompeii as a modern obsession, in which the Vesuvian sites function as mirrors of the present. Through cultural appropriation and projection, outstanding visual and literary artists of the last three centuries have made the ancient catastrophe their own, expressing contemporary concerns in diverse media—from paintings, prints, and sculpture, to theatrical performances, photography, and film. This lavishly illustrated volume—featuring the works of artists such as Piranesi, Fragonard, Kaufmann, Ingres, Chassériau, and Alma-Tadema, as well as Duchamp, Dalí, Rothko, Rauschenberg, and Warhol—surveys the legacy of Pompeii in the modern imagination under the three overarching rubrics of decadence, apocalypse, and resurrection.
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