Courtesy National Gallery of Canada threatening, even severe, in their long dark robes,
there is a hint of humour in this portrayal—the men look a bit like old-fashioned women …

I t hardly needs repeating that the deceptively straightforward photographs that open Let Us
Now Praise Famous Men constitute one of Walker Evans's masterpieces; a classical …

A visitor's winding progress from hell in the lowest level to heaven on the ground floor has
rich symbolic resonance, but it's easy to get lost-and perhaps that fact has its own …

WHILE TAKING A RIDE IN A VICTORIA-CARRIAGE through the town of Dewas in 1921,
Forster had an 'involuntary emission':'My hand was at the back of the carriage and I thought …

This thesis is an examination of the life and work of a Newfoundland visual artist and the
response of her audience. A native of Dresden, Germany, Elizabeth Margot Wall lived in …

A fter Madame Sosostris's Tarot card reading,“The Burial of the Dead” winds up with a
sixteen-line urban street scene situated in the neighborhood where Eliot worked at Lloyds …

T he house of mirth opens in a crowded train station when Selden glimpses Lily Bart in the
midst of the afternoon rush. In the “act of transition between one and another of the country …

A powerful paradox seems to underpin our ongoing cultural fascination with modern art. Just
as the modern period produced some of the most alienated, conflicted, and fragmented of art …

From critically acclaimed author Jeannine Atkins comes a “memorable, poetic tale”(Kirkus
Reviews, starred review) about a half–Native American, half–African American sculptor …

Malet's novella and James's manuscript both describe a turn-of-the-century man who
travelled back to the Regency to become his own ancestor, replaying that ancestor's passion …