Musical Iconography

A Manual for Cataloging Musical Subjects in Western Art Before 1800

By Howard Mayer Brown

This handbook is a valuable manual for both scholars of works of art with musical subjects and those who need a system to catalog art collections. The authors wanted to save others the time and effort of devising a workable cataloging system for thei...

Pataphysica

By Edited by Cal Clements

Pataphysics may be best known as the occupation of a murder victim in the Beatles' song, "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". We learn that "Joan was quizzical studied pataphysical science in the home Late night all alone with a test tube oh, oh...

Mystery of the Mona Lisa

By Rina De' Firenze

Driven by an inner force that enabled her to go back in time, Rina de' Firenze reveals what has been, since the Italian Renaissance, an enduring mystery throughout history, by recounting the life of Caterina, the mother of the great genius, Leonardo ...

Surrealism

Theater, Arts, Ideas

By Nahma Sandrow

The lively young artists of the Surrealist Movement shocked Paris in the 1920's with the first strong statement of many tendencies which still drive the avant-garde today. They centered art in the artist's identity while including spectators in the ...

Art in The Wilderness

A Retrospective of The Art of Ronald Rodney

By Ronald Rodney

Art in the Wilderness is a voice crying out to the artist, the art historians, educators, politicians, pastors, museums, art galleries, and to all peoples who have a desire for justice, a yearning for knowledge and the need to understand one m...

The Elgin Affair

The Abduction of Antiquity's Greatest Treasures

By Theodore Vrettos

“The romantic and even bizarre circumstances surrounding the appropriation of the Elgin Marbles, down to the unfortunate fates of the principal actors, are thoroughly and fascinatingly set forth by Theodore Vrettos in this melancholy saga of im...

"the finest small museum in the country"

A History of the Lyman Allyn Art Museum

By Jackwyn Durrschmidt

This author has dug deep in depicting the story of the Lyman Allyn Art Museum. Stories range from how the museum lost an important work of art, a nude statue in bronze, Standing Women by Gaston Lachaise, due to local patrons concerns with nudity, ...

New World Arts

Short Stories

By Harry Hilson

Harry Hilson has been an artist for about fifty years-a period covering not only the most creative period in art, but the most progressive period in the history of mankind. In this compilation of 'Short Stories' one gets a glimpse into the mind of th...

AESTHETIC THEORY

By Matthew Manus

Theorist Matthew Manus presents us with an engaging text that contributes to contemporary aesthetic theory. The drawings which follow the aesthetic theory are illuminative of the new terminology that the author employs in this brilliant work, which s...

Theoretical Art Movements

By Matthew Manus

Author and art theorist Matthew Manus presents us with a text of theoretical art movements that should exist in the art world. This short text is a major contribution to the theoretical arts.