Conundrum: Puzzles in the Grotesques Tapestry Series Sale - Book yet until now there has

yet until now there has been no general survey of his singular life and work

Sidelining labels like “conservative” or “avant-garde

Full of fascinating facts and stories

He spent some thirty years in Japan and Burma

the unlikely partnership between the respected painter David Octavius Hill and the young engineer Robert Adamson produced some of the most important photographs in the history of the medium

Conundrum: Puzzles in the Grotesques Tapestry Series Sale - Book yet until now there hasCharissa Bremer David The whimsical imagery of four tapestries in the permanent collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum and currently on display at the Getty Center is perplexing. Created in France at the Beauvais manufactory between 1690 and 1730, these charming hangings, unlike most French tapestries of the period, appear to be purely decorative, with no narrative thread, no theological moral, and no allegorical symbolism. They belong to a series