In 1906, a young French woman named Clothilde Coulaux made a lushly illuminated manuscript with religious imagery and scenes of everyday life in German-occupied Alsace.
Allison C. Meier
Allison C. Meier is a Brooklyn-based writer who has contributed stories to Lapham’s Quarterly, National Geographic, the New York Times, CityLab, Wellcome Collection, and other publications on art, architecture, and history. She is the author of the forthcoming Grave (2023) from Bloomsbury.
From the mid-fifteenth to the nineteenth century, the letterpress dominated printing, allowing for little design variation. New techniques developed in the 1800s, such as chromolithography with multi…
The first in our new monthly series of new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors.
Fortunat Mueller-Maerki’s passion for collecting books and ephemera related to time began with one clock.
Artist Ralston Crawford dabbled in photography before World War II, using his 1938 shots of dock workers in Florida and Louisiana as source material for his painting Ships and Sailors.
