and Catherine Opie

She holds master’s degrees in US history and library and information studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison

He eventually defined a unique parallel relationship: the contemporary Northern European's attraction to the Italian Renaissance was to him much like the fascination that antiquity held for painters and other artists during the Italian Renaissance

Odilon Redon (French

with the emergence of a revolutionary scene of avant-garde artists who pioneered many disciplines: experimental and erotic photography

The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments summer entertaining and Catherine OpieImagined instruments reveal how we shape musicand how music shapes us. The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments is a guided tour through centuries of instruments that never existed. From ancient myths to futuristic media, these imagined devices appear in literature, theory, video games, and art, at times echoing real instruments, other times pushing far beyond the bounds of technology. This book presents a wide ranging collection of such creations,