solitude sunday at the whimsey project. our day to spend time with a book. any book will do, however, pay attention to those books that have been resting on the shelves for a long time waiting for you!
american visions: the epic history of art in america by robert hughes continues for me. it appears that i have read about one half of the volume; having read about the late 1800s this morning. the artists who caught my attention from this time of the gilded age was william harnett and john fredrick peto. amid all the over abundance of the first wave of machine made products, harnett and peto painted retrospectives that contain very few items, all of them relevant to the past and meaningful in political or social aspects. the form the paintings take is that of a bulletin board or letter rack or wall. the paintings are so realistic it's difficult to accept they works aren't bulletin boards or letter racks or walls.
what are you reading on solitude sunday? share your book with the whimsey project!
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