While not as globally and immediately recognisable as other staple Marvel Comics characters like Captain America, the Punisher, with his near-perpetual scowl, dark attire, and white skull symbol is still a pop-cultural icon in his own right.
Extra-illustration was a practice that developed in the later eighteenth century as a means by which collectors added imagery (most often prints, but sometimes manuscripts, objects, or original artworks) to existing books. In this talk, Brian Cowan will examine the practice of extra-illustration as a means of understanding the varieties of British historical imagination in the long eighteenth century. His project explores the relationships between political history, secret history, and biography as these genres developed over the course of the long eighteenth century in Britain.
Lubaina Himid is a painter who uses the canvas to experiment not only with the language of traditional art history, but also to engage with the social sphere. Many of her works exist, as Himid has noted, in “the moment between a question and an answer,” and in those interstices, audiences are invited to enter her exhibitions as worlds of their own making.
While not as globally and immediately recognisable as other staple Marvel Comics characters like Captain America, the Punisher, with his near-perpetual scowl, dark attire, and white skull symbol, is still a pop-cultural icon in his own right. Frequently described as an antihero, the Punisher is the moniker of Frank Castle, a man driven to vigilantism by the murder of his family at the hands of mobsters. He employs a vast arsenal of weaponry and brutal methods in a one-man war on crime.