Bismarck; some secret pages of his history; being a diary kept by Dr. Moritz Busch during twenty-five years' official and private intercourse with the great chancellor, with portraits.

Mode of access: Internet.

Special ordinances of Chicago : including all special ordinances passed by the City Council to Aug. 1898, and all special ordinances passed by the various cities, villages and towns heretofore annexed and now a part of Chicago /

"Volume 2."

Portraits contemporains; littérateurs--peintres--sculpteurs, artistes dramatiques, avec un portrait de Théophile Gautier d'après une gravure à l'eau-forte par luimême vers 1832.

Mode of access: Internet.

The men of New York: a collection of biographies and portraits of citizens of the Empire state prominent in business, professional, social, and political life during the last decade of the nineteenth century ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees.

Special editors approved by authorities of the respective universities: Harvard, William Roscoe Thayer, Yale, Charles Henry Smith: Princeton, John De Witt, Jesse Lynch Williams: Columbia, J. Howard Van Amringe. Biographical editors, Charles E. L. Wingate, Albert Lee, Jesse Lynch Williams and Henry G. Paine.

Notice historique sur les Iles Sandwich, 1778-1833.

Mode of access: Internet.

Les quatre artistes, ou Les lettres et les portraits; comédie-vaudeville en un acte,

Mode of access: Internet.

Washington and the generals of the American Revolution : with finely-engraved portraits, from original pictures.

"Edited by Griswold, with the assistance of William Gilmore Simms, E.D. Ingraham, and others"--Boston Athenaeum, Catalogue of Washington collection, 1897, p. 361. R.W. Griswold wrote about one-third of the work. Cf. Passages from the correspondence ... of Rufus W. Griswold, 1898, p. 230.

Rodin; the man and his art, with leaves from his notebook,

The career of Rodin -- Rodin and the Beaux-Arts -- Sojourn in Belgium : "The man who awakens nature" : realism and plaster casts. -- Flemish painting : journeys in Italy and France -- Rodin's notebook. Ancient workshops and modern schools -- Scattered thought on flowers -- Portraits of women -- An artist's day -- The line and the structure of the gothic -- Art and nature -- The gothic genius -- The work of Rodin : the study of the cathedrals -- Influence of the gothic on the art of Rodin -- "Saint John the Baptist" (1880) -- "The gate of hell" ; "The burghers of Calais" (1889) -- Rodin and Victor Hugo -- The statute of Balzac (1898).

Bismarck; some secret pages of his history; being a diary kept by Dr. Moritz Busch during twenty-five years' official and private intercourse with the great chancellor, with portraits.

Mode of access: Internet.

La Chambre de Commerce de Saint-Etienne; Bustes & Portraits; Vingt-trois heliogravures de Felix Thiollier faites d'apres les originaux des pentures et sculptures appartenant a la Chambre de Commerce, oeuvres de Hte. Flandrin, Albert Maignan, Guillaume, Montagny, etc.

Mode of access: Internet.

Stripping Sight Bare : Alison Jones’ ‘Portraits by Proxy’

In this paper I analyse UK artist Alison Jones’ sonic interventions Portrait of the Artist by Proxy (2008), Voyeurism by Proxy (2008) and Art, Lies and Audio Tapes (2009). In Portrait of the Artist by Proxy, Jones – who, due to deteriorating vision, has not seen her reflection in a mirror in years – asks and trusts participants to audio-describe her own image back to her. In Voyeurism by Proxy, Jones asks participants to audio-describe erotic drawings by Gustav Klimt. In Art, Lies and Audio Tapes, Jones asks participants to audio-describe other artworks, such as W.F. Yeames’ And When Did You Last see Your Father?. In these portraits by proxy, Jones opens her image, and other images, to interpretation. In doing so, Jones draws attention to the way sight is privileged as a mode of access to fixed, fundamental truths in Western culture – a mode assumed to be untainted by filters that skew perception of the object. “In a culture where vision is by far the dominant sense,” Jones says, “and as a visual artist with a visual impairment, I am reliant on audio-description …Inevitably, there are limitations imposed by language, time and the interpreter’s background knowledge of the subject viewed, as well as their personal bias of what is deemed important to impart in their description” . In these works, Jones strips these background knowledges, biases and assumptions bare. She reveals different perceptions, as well as tendencies or censor, edit or exaggerate descriptions. In this paper, I investigate how, by revealing unconscious biases, Jones’ works renders herself and her participants vulnerable to a change of perception. I also examine how Jones’ later editing of the audio-descriptions allows her to show the instabilities of sight, and, in Portrait of the Artist by Proxy, to reclaim authorship of her own image.

Outdoor portrait of Jenny Gutman (left) and Erna Strasburger with unidentified young boy Portraits Groups

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Unidentified nurses and injured World War I soldiers celebrating with champagne and flowers Portraits Groups

Handwritten correspondence on verso covered over with pasted black paper