Wednesday 19 March 2014 at 17:39
Grounded in the theory that ideas, emotions, and even events, can manifest as visible auras, Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater’s Thought-Forms (1901) is an odd and intriguing work. Benjamin Breen explores these “synesthetic” abstractions and asks to what extent they, and the Victorian mysticism of which they were born, influenced the Modernist movement that flourished in the following decades.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/03/19/victorian-occultism-and-the-art-of-synesthesia/
Thursday 13 March 2014 at 17:06
The Home Movies of Frank Richard Oastler, an American surgeon specialising in gynaecology by profession but also a keen amateur photographer, scholar, and authority on wildlife conservation and its interpretation to the public.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-home-movies-of-frank-richard-oastler/
Wednesday 12 March 2014 at 19:35
A book on women painters throughout history, from the time of Caterina Vigri to Rosa Bonheur. includes a rather lavish preface by Walter Shaw Sparrow and various essays on the "genius" of women.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/women-painters-of-the-world-from-the-time-of-caterina-vigri-to-rosa-bonheur-1905/
Tuesday 11 March 2014 at 19:25
An eighteenth-century pattern book consisting of 36 ink drawings showing precise…
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/tibetan-book-of-proportions/
Wednesday 5 March 2014 at 16:10
Luuc Kooijmans explores the work of Dutch anatomist Frederik Ruysch, known for his remarkable ‘still life’ displays which blurred the boundary between scientific preservation and vanitas art.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/03/05/frederik-ruysch-the-artist-of-death/
Tuesday 4 March 2014 at 16:15
KONINKLIJKE BIBLIOTHEEK - Marieke van Delft discusses some works by the prolific writer Johannes Florentius Martinet (1729-1795), digitized in the Early Dutch Books Online (EDBO) Project.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-writings-of-j-f-martinet-1729-1795/
Saturday 1 March 2014 at 20:57
DESIGN: Very little is known about the Dutch artist Arent van Bolten. We do know he wa…
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/shop/posters-and-prints/arent-van-boltens-cat-riding-a-monster/
Wednesday 26 February 2014 at 17:44
Photographic portraits taken by Dr. Hugh Welch Diamond of patients from Surrey County Asylum in England where he worked as a psychiatrist.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/portraits-of-patients-from-surrey-county-asylum-ca-1855/
Wednesday 19 February 2014 at 16:49
When claims from Europe accused British America of being inferior on account of its colder weather, Thomas Jefferson and his fellow Founding Fathers responded with patriotic zeal that their settlement was actually causing the climate to warm. Raphael Calel explores how, in contrast to today's common association of the U.S. with climate change skepticism, it was a very different story in the 18th century.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/02/19/the-founding-fathers-v-the-climate-change-skeptics/