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Some craven scruple of thinking too precisely on th’ event*…
Readers will know that your correspondent is a fan of infographics (c.f., e.g., “Yeah, Yeah, Yeah,”Victorian Visualization,” and “I See“). Today’s featured visualization is one that raises as many...
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A trick of perspective…
William Hogarth (1697-1764) was a British painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist sometimes credited with beginning the tradition of sequential art in...
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“What’s in a name?”*…
Familiar to many will be that exasperating feeling that arises when accused of being that very thing you pride yourself on not being. It’s a feeling the English artist William Hogarth evidently...
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“The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of...
As transportation got faster, cities got bigger: The borders of Ancient Rome, Medieval Paris, Victorian London, early 20th century Chicago, and modern-day Atlanta In 1994, Cesare Marchetti, an...
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“a publisher’s emblem or imprint, especially one on the title page or spine...
Farrar, Straus, Giroux + Fischer Verlag Knowing a book (or its publisher anyway) by its cover (art)… Colophons started out as short statements providing a book’s publication info—details like where...
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