This online blog post features materials protected by the Fair Use guidelines of Section 107 of the US Copyright Act. All rights reserved to the copyright owners. Blog post by Irene Feng Introduction and Background “A pair of golden lotus, a jar of tears.” This was a widely known expression developed after the existence of […]
Month: April 2022
The History and Symbols of Gay Rights Activism at Cornell University
Blog post by Colette Rose Jarrell ’25 This online blog post features materials protected by the Fair Use guidelines of Section 107 of the US Copyright Act. All rights reserved to the copyright owners. In 1973, The New York Times pronounced the t-shirt as “the Medium for a Message” (Taylor). At the time, t-shirts were newly emerging […]
FASHION’S BLURRED LINES: VISIONAIRE WORLD AND THE CONCEPTUAL MAGAZINE
This online blog post features materials protected by the Fair Use guidelines of Section 107 of the US Copyright Act. All rights reserved to the copyright owners. Blog post by Nadine El Nesr Not just for the art magazine connoisseurs, but writers, editors, designers, historians, conceptualists, and virtually any person from any profession can experience […]
Rationing Nuptials
Blog post by Mattie Nguyen This online blog post features materials protected by the Fair Use guidelines of Section 107 of the US Copyright Act. All rights reserved to the copyright owners. Weddings have long been days of tradition, ceremony, ritual, and rite of passage. Many mark their wedding day as one of the most […]
Dismantling The Sapphire, One Dress at a Time
Blog post by Grace A. Myers ’25 This online blog post features materials protected by the Fair Use guidelines of Section 107 of the US Copyright Act. All rights reserved to the copyright owners. The traditional notion of growing up as a girl in America involved dressing up in heels two times the size of […]
Mysterious Lace Prints: An Exploration of 16th and 17th Century Artifact Analysis and Attribution
This online blog post features materials protected by the Fair Use guidelines of Section 107 of the US Copyright Act. All rights reserved to the copyright owners. Blog post by Lila Frost There is a small book of woodblock prints, bound in plain parchment paper in the Rare and Manuscripts Collection in Mann Library at Cornell […]
Silk Screened LGBTQ+ voices
Blog post by Morgan McCartan ’22 This online blog post features materials protected by the Fair Use guidelines of Section 107 of the US Copyright Act. All rights reserved to the copyright owners. You can feel the passion and pride of those who wore and designed these t-shirts. Within the Human Sexuality Collection in Cornell […]
Gertrude Heim Klemm’s Deadly Wedding Dress
Blog post by Maya Pierce ’25 This online blog post features materials protected by the Fair Use guidelines of Section 107 of the US Copyright Act. All rights reserved to the copyright owners. What does a bride wear to a wedding that doubles as a death sentence? For 1930s socialite Gertrude Heim Klemm the answer […]
The Plauen Factory Lace Sample Book
This online blog post features materials protected by the Fair Use guidelines of Section 107 of the US Copyright Act. All rights reserved to the copyright owners. Blog post by Cleah Dyer The artifact I found most intriguing during our tours to different libraries and historical / rare collections on campus were the Plauen Lace […]
The Women’s Vote
Blog post by Serena Wang ’25 This online blog post features materials protected by the Fair Use guidelines of Section 107 of the US Copyright Act. All rights reserved to the copyright owners. Upon first glance, the outfit in Figures 1 and 2 may seem insignificant, like any other 1950s shirtwaist dress and parasol. However, […]
“It was all about skating, now it’s about something else.”- Larry Clark
This online blog post features materials protected by the Fair Use guidelines of Section 107 of the US Copyright Act. All rights reserved to the copyright owners. Blog post by Valerie Chu Larry Clark is known for many things. Film director, photographer, writer, but he is most known for his 1995 film, Kids, which told […]
World of Visionaire: Back to the Future
This online blog post features materials protected by the Fair Use guidelines of Section 107 of the US Copyright Act. All rights reserved to the copyright owners. Blog post by Soraya Abukhadra VISIONAIRE. The word alone speaks the power of imagination, the importance of creativity and the beauty of art. Established in 1991, the publication […]