Doc Baroque
@roguearthistorian.bsky.social
I'm Doc Baroque: an artist, art historian, and Caravaggio expert with dual MFAs and a PhD in Art History. My blog explores art history through request-driven, scholarly posts. Unapologetically Indigenous.
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My profile is a place of respect and professionalism. Hateful or bullying remarks will not be tolerated. Violators will be "hung, drawn, and quartered," have Count Rugen’s torture device cranked to 100, and if all else fails, you’ll be blocked. Consider yourself warned!
Preston Singletary (Tlingit) is the artist who makes it impossible to pretend that glass is just a luxury material.
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#nativeamericanheritagemonth
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Preston Singletary (Tlingit) is the artist who makes it impossible to pretend that glass is just a luxury material. In his hands, it stops being something delicate and decorative and becomes a memory ...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Preston Singletary (Tlingit) is the artist who makes it impossible to pretend that glass is just a luxury material.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
From Shelf Filler to Holy Relic: The Alchemy of Signatures and Inscriptions
How Autographs, Inscriptions, and Provenance Turn Ordinary Volumes into Witnesses
A name on a title page can change everything.
How Autographs, Inscriptions, and Provenance Turn Ordinary Volumes into Witnesses
A name on a title page can change everything.
From Shelf Filler to Holy Relic: The Alchemy of Signatures and Inscriptions
How Autographs, Inscriptions, and Provenance Turn Ordinary Volumes into Witnesses
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November 25, 2025 at 7:04 AM
From Shelf Filler to Holy Relic: The Alchemy of Signatures and Inscriptions
How Autographs, Inscriptions, and Provenance Turn Ordinary Volumes into Witnesses
A name on a title page can change everything.
How Autographs, Inscriptions, and Provenance Turn Ordinary Volumes into Witnesses
A name on a title page can change everything.
Red Power Reloaded: From AIM Jackets to #NoDAPL Memes
Red Power and #NoDAPL are often narrated as separate generational upsurges, yet when we follow their graphic languages, from hand-painted slogans on Alcatraz concrete to vector files circulating on Instagram, the continuity becomes hard to miss.
Red Power and #NoDAPL are often narrated as separate generational upsurges, yet when we follow their graphic languages, from hand-painted slogans on Alcatraz concrete to vector files circulating on Instagram, the continuity becomes hard to miss.
Red Power Reloaded: From AIM Jackets to #NoDAPL Memes
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November 25, 2025 at 5:05 AM
If you’ve been meaning to catch up on the rare book series, this is your cue.
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If you’ve been meaning to catch up on the rare book series, this is your cue. Parts One and Two are already live and cover the basics that make or break value: what “first edition, first printing” act...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
If you’ve been meaning to catch up on the rare book series, this is your cue.
Kent Monkman (Cree, Fisher River) is the artist who makes it impossible to pretend that “history painting” is neutral.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
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Kent Monkman (Cree, Fisher River) is the artist who makes it impossible to pretend that “history painting” is neutral. In his canvases, history is not a solemn parade of white heroes; it is a crime sc...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Kent Monkman (Cree, Fisher River) is the artist who makes it impossible to pretend that “history painting” is neutral.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
Regalia Meets Riot Gear: Native Artists Turn Protest into High Art
Contemporary Native painting and sculpture emerge from lineages that are both continuous with, and radically disruptive of, twentieth-century American modernism.
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Contemporary Native painting and sculpture emerge from lineages that are both continuous with, and radically disruptive of, twentieth-century American modernism.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
Regalia Meets Riot Gear: Native Artists Turn Protest into High Art
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November 24, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Regalia Meets Riot Gear: Native Artists Turn Protest into High Art
Contemporary Native painting and sculpture emerge from lineages that are both continuous with, and radically disruptive of, twentieth-century American modernism.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
Contemporary Native painting and sculpture emerge from lineages that are both continuous with, and radically disruptive of, twentieth-century American modernism.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
Next month, we are finally doing the thing so many of you have been asking for, loudly and repeatedly, on Substack, Threads, and Bluesky.
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Next month, we are finally doing the thing so many of you have been asking for, loudly and repeatedly, on Substack, Threads, and Bluesky.
I’m thrilled to say that I’m bringing one of my all-time favo...
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November 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Next month, we are finally doing the thing so many of you have been asking for, loudly and repeatedly, on Substack, Threads, and Bluesky.
substack.com/profile/2115...
substack.com/profile/2115...
For Native American Heritage Month, and as this administration erases us, even scrubbing MMIWG info, every “Cup of Coffee” now, Nov 30 goes to Native-led MMIWG orgs. I’ll TRIPLE donations. My grandmother was a statistic. No more.
buymeacoffee.com/DocBaroque
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November 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
For Native American Heritage Month, and as this administration erases us, even scrubbing MMIWG info, every “Cup of Coffee” now, Nov 30 goes to Native-led MMIWG orgs. I’ll TRIPLE donations. My grandmother was a statistic. No more.
buymeacoffee.com/DocBaroque
buymeacoffee.com/DocBaroque
Norval Morrisseau (Anishinaabe) is the artist who makes it impossible to pretend that spirit is some invisible, abstract thing floating above the world.
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Norval Morrisseau (Anishinaabe) is the artist who makes it impossible to pretend that spirit is some invisible, abstract thing floating above the world. In his paintings, spirit has bones and claws an...
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November 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Norval Morrisseau (Anishinaabe) is the artist who makes it impossible to pretend that spirit is some invisible, abstract thing floating above the world.
Dead Indians, Missing Women, Future Ancestors: Indigenous Art That Refuses to Behave
James Luna (Payómkawichum/Luiseño, Ipi, Mexican American), Rebecca Belmore (Anishinaabe), and Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, European) have become foundational figures.
James Luna (Payómkawichum/Luiseño, Ipi, Mexican American), Rebecca Belmore (Anishinaabe), and Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, European) have become foundational figures.
Dead Indians, Missing Women, Future Ancestors: Indigenous Art That Refuses to Behave
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November 23, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Dead Indians, Missing Women, Future Ancestors: Indigenous Art That Refuses to Behave
James Luna (Payómkawichum/Luiseño, Ipi, Mexican American), Rebecca Belmore (Anishinaabe), and Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, European) have become foundational figures.
James Luna (Payómkawichum/Luiseño, Ipi, Mexican American), Rebecca Belmore (Anishinaabe), and Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, European) have become foundational figures.
If you’ve been meaning to catch up on the rare book series, now’s the time to jump in.
Rogue Art Historian (@roguearthistorian)
If you’ve been meaning to catch up on the rare book series, now’s the time to jump in. Parts One and Two are already live and lay the groundwork....what “first edition, first printing” actually means,...
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November 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
If you’ve been meaning to catch up on the rare book series, now’s the time to jump in.
Andrea Carlson (Grand Portage Ojibwe) is the artist who makes it impossible to pretend a museum is just a neutral building full of “objects.”
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
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Andrea Carlson (Grand Portage Ojibwe) is the artist who makes it impossible to pretend a museum is just a neutral building full of “objects.” In her work, the institution turns into a mouth and a stom...
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November 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Andrea Carlson (Grand Portage Ojibwe) is the artist who makes it impossible to pretend a museum is just a neutral building full of “objects.”
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
Feathers, Flags, and Fuck You: Native Painters Crash the Modernist Party
From the moment Oscar Howe begins to splinter ceremonial dancers into jagged shards of color.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
From the moment Oscar Howe begins to splinter ceremonial dancers into jagged shards of color.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
Feathers, Flags, and F*ck You: Native Painters Crash the Modernist Party
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
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November 22, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Feathers, Flags, and Fuck You: Native Painters Crash the Modernist Party
From the moment Oscar Howe begins to splinter ceremonial dancers into jagged shards of color.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
From the moment Oscar Howe begins to splinter ceremonial dancers into jagged shards of color.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
The way Trump lit up around Zohran, you just know JD is at home humping his couch (or Erica Kirk) in a jealous rage. Man never even looked at Elon with that kind of sparkle.
November 22, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The way Trump lit up around Zohran, you just know JD is at home humping his couch (or Erica Kirk) in a jealous rage. Man never even looked at Elon with that kind of sparkle.
George Morrison (Grand Portage Ojibwe) is the artist who made it impossible to pretend that a horizon is just a horizon.
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George Morrison (Grand Portage Ojibwe) is the artist who made it impossible to pretend that a horizon is just a horizon. In his hands, that thin line where water meets sky becomes a fault line, a scar...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
George Morrison (Grand Portage Ojibwe) is the artist who made it impossible to pretend that a horizon is just a horizon.
Authenticity for Sale: The Indian New Deal, Fake Indians, and Real Native Art Worlds
The Indian New Deal and the Indian Arts and Crafts Board (IACB) sit at a decisive hinge point in the history of Native North American art.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
The Indian New Deal and the Indian Arts and Crafts Board (IACB) sit at a decisive hinge point in the history of Native North American art.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
Authenticity for Sale: The Indian New Deal, Fake Indians, and Real Native Art Worlds
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
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November 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Authenticity for Sale: The Indian New Deal, Fake Indians, and Real Native Art Worlds
The Indian New Deal and the Indian Arts and Crafts Board (IACB) sit at a decisive hinge point in the history of Native North American art.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
The Indian New Deal and the Indian Arts and Crafts Board (IACB) sit at a decisive hinge point in the history of Native North American art.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
Frida Kahlo just shattered the auction record for a woman artist. Her 1940 painting El sueño (La cama) sold at Sotheby’s New York for $54.7 million, beating the previous high set by Georgia O’Keeffe.
Frida Kahlo Masterpiece Sells for $54.7 Million, New Auction Record for Artwork by a Woman
A painting by Frida Kahlo is coming to auction in November at Sotheby's New York, where it bears a record-breaking $60 million high estimate.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Frida Kahlo just shattered the auction record for a woman artist. Her 1940 painting El sueño (La cama) sold at Sotheby’s New York for $54.7 million, beating the previous high set by Georgia O’Keeffe.
Rick Bartow (Wiyot) is the artist who made it impossible to pretend that a drawing is just a drawing, or a carved pole just a monument.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
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Rick Bartow (Wiyot) is the artist who made it impossible to pretend that a drawing is just a drawing, or a carved pole just a monument. In his hands, paper and cedar become nervous systems. Figures sp...
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November 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Rick Bartow (Wiyot) is the artist who made it impossible to pretend that a drawing is just a drawing, or a carved pole just a monument.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
The Most Expensive Piece of Rubbish You Ever Tossed: Dust Jackets Explained
In the rare book world, a flimsy piece of paper can be worth more than the book it’s wrapped around.
In the rare book world, a flimsy piece of paper can be worth more than the book it’s wrapped around.
The Most Expensive Piece of Rubbish You Ever Tossed: Dust Jackets Explained
How a Lost Jacket Turns a Five-Figure First into a Reading Copy
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November 20, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The Most Expensive Piece of Rubbish You Ever Tossed: Dust Jackets Explained
In the rare book world, a flimsy piece of paper can be worth more than the book it’s wrapped around.
In the rare book world, a flimsy piece of paper can be worth more than the book it’s wrapped around.
Schooling the Colonizer’s Eye: Flatstyle, Indian Education, and Indigenous Control of the Image
In the early and mid twentieth century, Native painters working in Oklahoma and New Mexico developed a set of pictorial strategies that Euro-American critics quickly labeled flatstyle.
In the early and mid twentieth century, Native painters working in Oklahoma and New Mexico developed a set of pictorial strategies that Euro-American critics quickly labeled flatstyle.
Schooling the Colonizer’s Eye: Flatstyle, Indian Education, and Indigenous Control of the Image
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November 20, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Schooling the Colonizer’s Eye: Flatstyle, Indian Education, and Indigenous Control of the Image
In the early and mid twentieth century, Native painters working in Oklahoma and New Mexico developed a set of pictorial strategies that Euro-American critics quickly labeled flatstyle.
In the early and mid twentieth century, Native painters working in Oklahoma and New Mexico developed a set of pictorial strategies that Euro-American critics quickly labeled flatstyle.
November 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Tomorrow we’re diving into dust jackets, condition grades, and why that “useless” paper cover is often most of the value.
If you want to catch up (or get slightly terrified about what you’ve thrown away over the years) before then, have a read of this one 👇🏼
If you want to catch up (or get slightly terrified about what you’ve thrown away over the years) before then, have a read of this one 👇🏼
Misprints, Money, and Mayhem: The Cut-Throat World of First Editions
How One Wrong Letter Can Add Four Zeroes to the Price Tag
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November 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Tomorrow we’re diving into dust jackets, condition grades, and why that “useless” paper cover is often most of the value.
If you want to catch up (or get slightly terrified about what you’ve thrown away over the years) before then, have a read of this one 👇🏼
If you want to catch up (or get slightly terrified about what you’ve thrown away over the years) before then, have a read of this one 👇🏼