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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- There is an interesting depiction of fortune (or fama ?) seated on a bubble= in one of paintings (Allegory of Fortune) displayed in the current =22Dosso = Dossi=22 exhibition currently at the MMA. Faith Pleasanton -----Original Message----- From: Jill Patrick =5BSMTP:patrick3=40NETCOM.CA=5D Sent: Thursday, January 21, 1999 1:25 PM To: ARLIS-L=40LSV.UKY.EDU Subject: Re: Query: Bubbles in Art/Literature? Sally Rand, one of America's best-known strip-tease =22artists,=22 was = famous for her bubble dance in the 1930s. The act included men with pins in their canes pricking the bubble at strategic moments -- There is a great photograph (highly retouched) of her in a full body suit leaning against a huge bubble -- Its reproduced on Page 9 of Weekend Magazine (Saturday, February 3, 1979) - I did the photo research for this article on =2250 Years of Striptease=22 but can't recall exactly where the image came from -- I obtained photographs from the Theatre Collection/New York Public Library/Astor Lennox Tilden Foundations, from Culver Pictures and from CP/Wide World -- I am not sure where the latter two collections are located now. Nevertheless, any good book on Sally Rand or striptease should have this photograph of the bubble dance. Jill Patrick, OCAD =3E-----Original Message----- =3EFrom: Deborah Barlow =3Cdbarlow=40VNI.NET=3E =3ETo: ARLIS-L=40LSV.UKY.EDU =3CARLIS-L=40LSV.UKY.EDU=3E =3EDate: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 9:56 AM =3ESubject: Query: Bubbles in Art/Literature? =3E =3E =3E=3EDear Colleagues, =3E=3E =3E=3EA student is trying to find examples--either figurative or literal--of =3E=3E=22bubbles=22 in literature or art (of any style or period). I'm = rather drawing =3E=3Ea blank. =3E=3E =3E=3EHe has found several entries in a Shakespeare Concordance which he = will =3E=3Einvestigate further and I have suggested that he see what the WWW has = to =3E=3Eoffer (you never know if some bubble-fetishist out there will have a site). =3E=3EI've looked through our meager resources including several = dictionaries of =3E=3Esigns and symbols, the World Painting Index, and the Oxford Companion = to =3E=3E20th-century Literature, but to no avail. =3E=3E =3E=3EI'm hoping that someone out there with, perhaps, ICONOCLASS or some = other =3E=3Esource, like a literary concordance can site some myths, legends, = fairy =3E=3Etales, folklore, or other stories, or artists who may have dealt with = this =3E=3Etheme or image in their work. =3E=3E =3E=3EPlease contact me off the list. =3E=3EThanks, in advance, for your help with this. =3E=3E =3E=3EDebbie =3E=3E =3E=3E=2A=2A=2A=2A=2A =3E=3E =3E=3EDeborah L. Barlow =3E=3EHead Librarian =3E=3ECorcoran Gallery of Art Library =3E=3E1705 H Street, NW =3E=3EWashington, DC 20006-3908 =3E=3Eph: 202-822-1484 =3E=3Efx: 202-822-1486 =3E=3Edbarlow=40vni.net =3E=3E =3E