Brian Karas’s thoughtful and contemporary art in this modern retelling of the tender tale of a humble craftsman
In order to point out this “ahistoricism” that paradoxically defines what is historical in Latin America
” the far North – a different kind of terra incognita for the Renaissance imagination – offered more than new stuff to be mapped
evolution is a forbidden topic of discussion
Beyan probes the social and intellectual sources
Rufus Porter’s Curious World: Art and Invention in America, 1815-1860 Full-Zips Brian Karas’s thoughtful and contemporaryEdited by Laura Fecych Sprague and Justin Wolff Once called the Yankee Da Vinci, Rufus Porter was an itinerant portrait painter and muralist, a publisher and author, an inventor of mechanical improvements, and an impresario who engineered an airship that promised to fly gold rush prospectors from New York to California in three days. Through his diverse interests in painting, mechanics, aeronautics, and publishing, Rufus Porter helped transform art