Courtesy of friends and internet rambling, I’ve seen a number of interesting book sites this week. So I thought I’d pass a few along to you!
An offshoot of the Reading the Past blog, Reusable Cover Art is a collection of book covers that incorporate the same image into their cover art. Some of the juxtapositions [...]
1. Critique them. Failing that, criticize.
The Cynical-C Blog regularly posts selections of one-star Amazon reviews of classic literature, film, and music. I’m all for questioning the canon. But most of these reviews are dedicated to the fine art of missing the point. I couldn’t help pulling out a few of my favorite assertions about books [...]
Ever since Jenny Venn, the graphic design professor at the University of Wyoming, mentioned that most of her students’ initial interest in graphic design comes from their experience with graphic novels and Japanese anime and manga, I’ve been thinking about the way comics reflect culture. Here are a few nifty sites I encountered as I [...]
So far, we’ve talked quite a lot about high art. But what about the history of design, say? Or folk art? Or out-and-out kitsch?
Enter The Museum of Online Museums, a clearinghouse of collections big and small. Sure, they’ve got links to heavy hitters like the Rijksmuseum and The Art Institute of Chicago, but they also [...]
Last week’s post dealt with how new technology facilitates direct encounters with masterpieces of art. But the whole reason the discipline of Art History exists is that there’s always much more to a work of art than meets the eye.
Enter smARThistory, a “free multi-media web-book” created by two art historians: Dr. Beth Harris, Director of [...]
I have to confess: when my junior high art teacher brought in Georgia O’Keeffe prints to inspire the class, my reactions were 1) “It’s a flower”; 2) “It’s big”; and 3) “I don’t care.” (“I’m hungry” might have been mixed in there, too.) But oh, what a difference when the O’Keeffe Museum opened in Santa [...]