holiday magic 2018
December 20, 2018
It's time for the yearly Art History Babe holiday menagerie! The history of the menorah, a mystical wild nativity scene, the evolution of Santa Claus, and John Leech's illustrations for A Christmas Carol. Let's get festive y'all.
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Featured Artist: Zach Clark
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Sources:
Hancher, Michael. “Reading the Visual Text: ‘A Christmas Carol’”. The Yale University Library Gazette, (October 1999): 21-40.
Seal, Jeremy. Nicholas: The epic journey from Saint to Santa Claus. Bloomsbury, New York & London, 2005.
Solberg, Sarah. “‘Text Dropped into the Woodcuts’: Dickens’ Christmas Books”. Dickens Studies Annual (1980): 103-118.
Links:
”John Leech: the cartoonist who gave us Christmas past” by James Whitworth
A Gallery of John Leech's Illustrations for Dickens's A Christmas Carol
Oldest-known Images of Hanukkah Menorahs: Not What We Know Today
“The History of the Menorah” by Miriam Feinberg Vamosh and Ruth Schuster
“The Obscure Origins and Evolution of the Hanukkah Menorah” by Elon Gilad
“Saint Nicholas and the Origin of Santa Claus”
“AKA Santa Claus” by Lee Krystek
The life and adventures of Santa Claus, by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1902