Benevolent pleasures of sight | Collections | The Huntington

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Collections 92-06
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"Inspired by the complexities of the sphere and its profound significance in our universe, Camille Solyagua has developed a technique of projecting light through a combination of liquids onto photographic paper, producing images of distant worlds that exist for only a matter of seconds. These elegant photograms play with our perceptions of light and dark, liquid and solid, time, distance, and scale. They suggest the invisible by focusing on the visible, thereby constructing an enigmatic bridge between the micro and macrocosmic world. Her small-scale liquid concoctions help us to reflect on the mystery of the cosmos and the delicate balance in which our world exists"--Publisher's description.
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"'Nudare' is our third publication on the botanical still lifes of Ron van Dongen. Like the first two books in this trilogy--'Alba Nero' and 'Vulgaris'--'Nudare' confirms van Dongen's position as the most innovative and exciting artist working in the genre today"--Publisher's description.
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[The maiden's prayer]
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Libel Cases - Olender, Ben - Beatnik story
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6 items. Material includes: tear sheets of two stories ("Beatniks stay in 'pads', tourist novelty gone." and "Few Beatniks develop...real art talents"); letter to "Editor", from Howard Holtzman, an attorney representing an artist named Taki Camille, who objected to, as she alleged, being characterized as a beatnik; a photo of "Taki" working on one of her sculptures (taken by Olender); note from Lawrence Lipton to Don Neff (LAT) saying that Lipton would, if the case went to court, support The Times, the writer (Neff) and the photographer (Olender); etc.
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Mary Jane Brooks letters to Thomas and Priscilla Marsh
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In this first letter (HM 19797, dated 1853, September 14), Mary Jane Brooks describes her journey to California "according to agreement" to her sister Priscilla and her husband Thomas Marsh. Much of this letter contains Brooks' description of Kingston, Jamaica, where she stopped en route to California. She laments that she has not yet found a man to run away with her. HM 19798, written August 12, 1886, and includes an envelope. Brooks is still in San Francisco, and writes of people she is seeing and letters written and received. The last letter in this sequence was written 1886, September 2. Brooks writes that she has reached her sixtieth birthday, but feels "old beyond my years." She discusses the possibility of getting her share of the farmstead left by her father, and hopes her sister will cooperate.
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