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Dream Children
At the beginning of the semester I sat down with my buddy the LoC to find some images for the class. Of the many intriguing and beautiful images I found this one: The image is entitled “A-listnin’ to...
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Victorian Cougars
Victorian Cougars Citing a recent Daily Mail article that looks at a Victorian Era census for evidence of May-December romances. Research, it is what you make of it!
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The Kiss of Peace
‘Kiss of Peace’-Cameron Farewell of Saints Peter and Paul, showing the Apostles giving each other the holy kiss before their martyrdom. (Alonzo Rodriguez, 16th century, Museo Regionale di Messina)....
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Secret Cross-Dressers and Bruce
In trying to research more about “Richard Bruce” the female cross-dresser that Munby mentions in his writing (Unfortunately, I couldn’t come up with anything) I stumbled upon this pop article about...
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The Fox Sisters and American Spiritualsim
These lovely ladies are the Fox sisters, Leah, Maggie, and Katherine. Together they represent the beginning of the American Spiritualism movement. In 1848 while living in Hydesville, New York the...
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Comparing Mugshots of Fenians with Andy Warhol’s “13 Most Wanted Men”
After reading the article “Fenians in the Frame: Photographing Irish Political Prisoners, 1865-1868″ by Breandan Mac Suibhne and Amy Martin, I was interested in the way that prison photography has an...
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Comparing photographs of Hannah Cullwick with those of Cindy Sherman
In class we discussed the interesting dynamic in the Cullwick-Munby relationship. Although I appreciate Carol Mavor’s attempt to argue that Hannah had agency, I find her comparison of the photographs...
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Diane Arbus: exploring the truth claim of photography
One of the interesting problems that surfaced during the shift from portraiture to photography is the nature of photography’s claim to be a scientific representation of absolute truth. As John Tagg...
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Italy vs. Britain: Women’s Literary Rights
This semester I took an Italian Children’s Literature course, which has been an interesting juxtaposition to this class because Italy was only unified politically and geographically in 1861 . Even...
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The Many Faces of Dorian Gray
I wanted to take a look at some of the interpretations of Dorian Gray presented in different media, specifically book covers, comic book covers, and actors from movie interpretations. As someone meant...
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The Stillness of Transitions in Art
I was really enchanted by these images by John Tenniel of Alice literally going through the looking-glass . I thought it was a charming representation of the symbolic journey a child undertakes when...
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Picturing Alice
Alice from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a character that has been represented many times throughout both film and literature. Thanks to the Disney adaptation that, like most Disney adaptations,...
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Review of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
My recent visit to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston was by no means my first; however, it does represent the first time that I viewed this space with an eye towards understanding Mrs....
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Collage and Fantasy in “Mumbo Jumbo”
As a result of our discussions in class, I’ve become increasingly interested in novels that use images or visual language to supplement the text. One of my favorite examples of this (and the subject of...
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Review: Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen”
A while back, I had the pleasure of attending Claudia Rankine’s lecture at Hampshire College. Rankine read several passages from her book, Citizen: an American Lyric, providing personal background on...
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Ellen Terry: In the Frame
Upon the realization that Julia Margaret Cameron took many photos of Ellen Terry apart from “Sadness”, I had to do some investigating. Through this investigation, I came across an overwhelming amount...
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Review of “Aesthetic Worlds of the Romantic Heroine in Indian Painting and...
On November 12, 2015, I attended the “Aesthetic Worlds of the Romantic Heroine in Indian Painting and Poetry” lecture at Gamble Auditorium in the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum. The lecture was...
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Night at the Museum: Monday, 16th November, 2015
While I do enjoy the solitude of roaming a museum gallery alone, taking time to stop and ponder each work, there is something about conversing about art that the solitude of browsing alone cannot...
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Revisions and Translations
In 1891, Oscar Wilde wrote a new play, Salomé, in French, though of course his native language was English. The theme and plot of this play are Biblical, but it does not follow a Biblical script. In...
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Review: MHC Art Museum
One of the artworks I especially appreciated being able to view during our “Night at the Museum” visit was an image I first observed and discussed with my small group – a photograph entitled “Wife of...
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