Seum Of Modern Art: Cincinnati's unique Lloyd Library and Museum has special collections dealing with botany, mycology, pharmacy, chemistry, the natural sciences, eclectic medicine, agriculture, entomology, and pharmacopoeia. The Cincinnati Historical Society Library contains the special James A. Green collection on U. S. President William Henry Harrison as well as one on Ohio. The University of Cincinnati Library has the largest collection of volumes in modern Greek of any outside of Athens.
Pollaiuolo is credited with being the first modern artist to dissect the human body. His remarkable ability to use anatomy as an expressive vehicle is seen in the bronze statuette group, Hercules and Antaeus in the National Museum at Florence. Verrocchio, the master of Leonardo da Vinci, followed Pollaiuolo in mastering anatomy and extended its application in the field of facial expression as illustrated in his psychologically charged bronze group of Christ and St. Thomas. A supreme example of his dynamic realism is the bronze equestrian statue of General Bartolommeo Colleoni in Venice.
Photographs have been combined with the printed word, not as literal illustrations, but to reinforce one another so that new meanings can be read in each. Thus in the book Time in New England, an anthology of Ne England writings with Paul Strand's photographs, Nam Newhall put a photograph of a blasted tree with £ account of witchcraft, a stern detail of rock with ey witness accounts of the Boston Massacre, the spire of meeting house with a statement on abolition, an infini seascape with the chronicle of the loss of a ship at se In the 1955 exhibition The Family of Man at The M seum of Modern Art, and in the book made from Edward Steichen not only juxtaposed photographs i family life the world over, but also used photographs metaphors: the great Mount Williamson of Ansel Adan expressed the creation of earth; a photograph by Wyr Bullock of a child asleep in a forest glade, the creatic of man.
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