March 2008
- Member Magazine
Armor as Technology and Art
When most of us consider arms and armor, we probably conjure certain mental images: medieval knights, adventures in foreign lands, crusades, the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the romance of tournaments, and courtesy toward women. Such images have a profound place in Western culture. Arms and Armor fr...
Armor for the Tilt (Plankengestech). South Germany, Augsburg, 1570-80. Steel and leather. Styrian Museum Joanneum, Landeszeughaus, Graz, Austria. Inv. 1903
Photo Surrealism
In June 2007 a major acquisition of 168 photographs—135 individual prints, one book, and a portfolio—significantly strengthened the museum’s holdings of European photography. These remarkable images, created primarily by European photographers from the 1920s through the 1940s, represent the height o...