The New York Times29d
Sick of the 21st Century? These Artists Revive the 18th.
Literary re-enactments by the photographer Stan Douglas — and a wave of other remixers — are creating new types of art around Black ... the freedom fighter of 18th-century Jamaica, a self ...
University of Wyoming4y
Eighteenth-Century Life
The editors welcome contributions in all areas of the "long-eighteenth-century" culture outside North America-art, cultural studies, history, literature, music, science, and so on. To speed the ...
Artnet24d
Restoration Reveals Famous 18th Century Master’s Hidden Self-Portrait
The mysterious painting features a shadowy figure that looks suspiciously like the artist. Jean-Antoine Watteau, Pierrot (1718), detail. Photo: Collection of the Louvre, Paris. Watteau was born in ...
Cambridge University Press10d
Criticism, Performance, and the Passions in the Eighteenth Century
Great art is about emotion. In the eighteenth century, and especially for the English stage, critics developed a sensitivity to both the passions of a performance and what they called the transitions ...
Cambridge University Press1y
Art and Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Portugal
"One cannot but welcome the publication of Art and Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Portugal by Angela Delaforce. The book is neither a general history of Portuguese art nor, in view of its depth and ...
The New York Times21d
18th-Century Perfume Bottles Come Up for Auction
By Milena Lazazzera More than 100 porcelain perfume bottles from the 18th century are being offered ... an early 20th-century art collector and philanthropist. Mr. Giordano said the aesthetics ...