New Old Time
Reading the Earth: Vuillemin, Emslie, and the V...
In 1788, James Hutton looked at a rock face at Siccar Point and discovered deep time. The Victorian geologists and illustrators who followed him — Vuillemin in France, Emslie and...
Reading the Earth: Vuillemin, Emslie, and the V...
In 1788, James Hutton looked at a rock face at Siccar Point and discovered deep time. The Victorian geologists and illustrators who followed him — Vuillemin in France, Emslie and...
America’s Best Idea: The WPA Posters and the Ma...
In 1935, the Federal Art Project put artists to work creating posters for the National Park Service. The result was a visual language so powerful it turned geography into mythology...
America’s Best Idea: The WPA Posters and the Ma...
In 1935, the Federal Art Project put artists to work creating posters for the National Park Service. The result was a visual language so powerful it turned geography into mythology...
Cœur et Nerfs: How French Medical Publishing Ta...
At the turn of the twentieth century, the house of Larousse and physician Galtier-Boissière set out to make the human body visible to everyone. Through chromolithography and the work of...
Cœur et Nerfs: How French Medical Publishing Ta...
At the turn of the twentieth century, the house of Larousse and physician Galtier-Boissière set out to make the human body visible to everyone. Through chromolithography and the work of...
The Language of Flags: J. H. Colton’s 1863 Char...
In the mid-nineteenth century, the ability to read a flag was a professional necessity in every port city in the world. J. H. Colton’s National Flags chart of c.1863–1866 was...
The Language of Flags: J. H. Colton’s 1863 Char...
In the mid-nineteenth century, the ability to read a flag was a professional necessity in every port city in the world. J. H. Colton’s National Flags chart of c.1863–1866 was...
Cyprinids and Salmonids: The Golden Age of Euro...
In the first decade of the twentieth century, two publications captured the freshwater fish of Europe with chromolithographic precision: Emil Walter's Unsere Süßwasserfische (Stuttgart, 1913) and Our Country's Fishes and...
Cyprinids and Salmonids: The Golden Age of Euro...
In the first decade of the twentieth century, two publications captured the freshwater fish of Europe with chromolithographic precision: Emil Walter's Unsere Süßwasserfische (Stuttgart, 1913) and Our Country's Fishes and...
The Cypresses of Saint-Rémy: Van Gogh, Motion, ...
In May 1889, Van Gogh voluntarily admitted himself to the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy. What followed was one of the most extraordinary creative periods in the history of art —...
The Cypresses of Saint-Rémy: Van Gogh, Motion, ...
In May 1889, Van Gogh voluntarily admitted himself to the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy. What followed was one of the most extraordinary creative periods in the history of art —...