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A Practical Guide to Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau
One of the most visually delightful items to land on my desk recently, is a set of Arts & Crafts magazine is a wonderful record of the Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau movements and their...
Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Photographs
Among the joys of cataloguing rare books and historical materials are the serendipitous moments of discovery and connection. We recently obtained a mysterious set of 27 photographs related to the...
Entartete Kunst – Degenerate Art
A rare survival, this is the programme that accompanied Entartete Kunst, the Nazi’s 1937 exhibition mocking “degenerate” avant-garde art. Targeting modern art, music, and literature was an important...
E. O. Hoppé: Forgotten Modernist Photographer
E. O. Hoppé, nearly forgotten, was one of the most famous photographers of the early 20th century and a leading figure in the modernist movement who was described by Cecil Beaton as “The Master”. ...
Fortune
It was November 1929, only a month after the stock market crash that precipitated the Great Depression, and Henry Luce, founder of Time Magazine, had an idea. In the prospectus for a new magazine he...
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