American Visions: The Industrial Sublime
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanvisions/exhibition/show5/framepage5.8.html
The online version of the PBS series American
Visions includes commentary on Charles Demuth’s "The Figure 5 in
Gold" as well as on other artists grouped by Robert Hughes under the
heading "The Industrial Sublime." The exhaustive resources at the
American Visions web site include an exhibition of artwork from the
series; a gallery that can be sorted by title, artist, date, and
program; a "Current Visions" gallery featuring the work of contemporary
American artists; and a bulletin board where interested browsers can
post comments.
Amy’s Hodepodge:
William Carlos Williams
http://www.webspan.net/~amunno/wcw.html
This fan’s site contains a brief
biography of William Carlos Williams, Amy’s favorite poems, and an
interesting collection of paintings paired with poems by Williams
Carlos Williams, each offering a perfect springboard for discussions of
the Williams/Demuth pairing.
Spotlight on Voices & Visions: William Carlos Williams
http://www.learner.org/collections/multimedia/literature/vvseries/vvspot/Williams.html
Spotlights on Voices & Visions
includes links to web sites exploring the lives and works of thirteen
of America’s most famous modern poets, along with video clips from
programs in the Voices & Visions video series (including a video
based on the poem "The Great Figure").
The Academy of
American Poets: William Carlos Williams
http://www.poets.org/LIT/poet/wcwilfst.htm
This site offers a brief biography of
Williams, a bibliography of his publications, the text of selected
poems, and links to other William Carlos Williams exhibits elsewhere on
the site and on the web.
Larry Woiwode, Ode
to an Orange [essay]
Smithsonian Magazine
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues97/jan97/toothpick.html
The online version of the January 1997
issue of Smithsonian magazine includes an abstract of another
ode to an ordinary object, the toothpick. The site also contains an
image gallery featuring the work of contemporary photographers and
other issues of the magazine, many of which contain articles that focus
on a single object.
Sequoia Citrus
Association, Have One [label]
Pat Jacobsen’s Fruit Labels
Site
http://www.fruitcratelabels.com
This site offers an online gallery of
fruit crate labels from the same era as the book’s reproductions, as
well as an array of other product labels from the same period.
The Ultimate Citrus Page
http://www.ultimatecitrus.com
This web site created by the Florida
Citrus Growers bills itself as "your portal to the world of citrus"; it
offers a wonderful counterpoint to the memoir by Larry Woiwode and the
assorted older citrus ads in the chapter.
William
Eggleston, Untitled [photograph]
Masters of Photography: William Eggleston
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/E/eggleston/eggleston.html
This site includes reproductions of
some of Eggleston’s photographs, along with the full text of articles
about the artist and links to online resources that focus on his life
and work.
RETROSPECT:
Changing Gears [four advertisements]
Specialized Bicyles
http://www.specialized.com/site_menu/
The official Specialized Bikes web
site–which includes an illustrated, animated timeline of Specialized’s
history–provides a good extension to this Retrospect, showing one
possibility for marketing the bicycle in a non-print medium.
Nicholson Baker,
Shoelaces [fiction]
The Nicholson Baker
Fan Page
www.j-walk.com/nbaker/index.html
This unofficial site includes lengthy
interviews with the author, a bibliography of his work, a biography,
and a "random quote generator."
Alfred Leslie,
Television Moon [painting]
Television News
Archive
http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/index.html
Developed by Vanderbilt University, the
Television News Archive provides abstracts for over "30,000 individual
network evening news broadcasts and more than 9,000 hours of special
news-related programming." The archive includes a searchable database
of the evening news broadcasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC since August 1968.
Annie Dillard, Seeing [essay]
The Mysticism of Annie
Dillard
http://sandra.stahlman.com/dillard.html
In an article posted in May 1994,
Sandra Stahlman Elliott discusses Annie Dillard’s mysticism, her life,
and her Pulitzer Prize-winning book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
(1974).
The Academy of
Poets: Elizabeth Bishop
http://www.poets.org/LIT/poet/ebishfst.htm
For another meditation on observing
nature, read Elizabeth Bishop’s poem The Fish, included on this
Academy of Poets site.
LOOKING CLOSER:
Seeing Is Believing
Seeing the Unseen: Dr. Harold E. Edgerton and the Wonders of Strobe
Alley
http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/exhibitions/edgerton/edgerton.html
A description of the George Eastman
House’s exhibition of Harold Edgerton’s work, as well as several of
Edgerton’s images.
Edgerton
Explorit Center: Nebraska’s Hands-On Science Center
http://www.edgerton.org/biography.html
The Explorit Center’s web site includes
a detailed biography of its namesake, along with a list of related
links about Edgerton’s life, work, and publications on the web.
Anglo-Australian Observatory
http://www.aao.gov.au/images.html
A web site run by the Anglo-Australian
Observatory that contains about 30 pictures of stars, galaxies, and
nebulas. Pictures on the site are billed as "some of the finest
wide-field astronomy pictures made with professional telescopes
anywhere." You might consider these in relation to Scott Russell
Sanders’s "Homeplace" or K. C. Cole’s "A Matter of Scale."
Science Photo
Library
http://www.sciencephoto.com/
David Scharf’s close-up of a kitchen
scouring pad is one of the 124,000 images in the Science Photo Library,
a collection promoted as "the world's leading stock photo agency
specializing in science, medicine and technology." In addition to its
extensive archive of photography, the site includes special features
such as "Images in Action," which shows science photos in popular
culture, and an "Image of the Week" archive.
Artcyclopedia: Chuck Close
http://artcyclopedia.com/artists/close_chuck.html
The Artcyclopedia online archive of
links to works by and articles on Chuck Close offers students access to
more works in Close’s unique style (includes a link to an excellent TIME
article by Robert Hughes).
Untitled: X-Ray and Unusual Image
Library
http://www.untitled.co.uk/
This British collection of X-ray
images, photograms, abstract photographs, and contemporary pictures is
presented in an engaging and accessible web site.
