Jumat, 29 September 2017

The Wild Wild West

The culture wars of an expansionist era inspired Charles Deas, but he lost his own battle with madness and obscurity. “From what we can see of it over the shoulders of the hundreds crowding around,” raved the New Mirror in 1844, “it is a chef d’oeuvre.” Charles Deas (pronounced days) was just 25 when the …

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