Author Archives: corvusfugit

1907: Kampen, Sylt

Posted on September 6, 2019 by corvusfugit

Wenzel Hablik: Kampen, Sylt: Dark Clouds, Mudflats (1907)

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1897: Orpheus

Posted on September 3, 2019 by corvusfugit

Pierre Amédée Marcel-Béronneau: Orpheus in Hades (1897)

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1959: Capital and Labor

Posted on September 2, 2019 by corvusfugit

Sister Concilla sets the record straight on labor unions. Note the union bug indicating the comic was printed in a union shop.              

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1954: Zombies, Unite!

Posted on September 2, 2019 by corvusfugit

For Labor Day: a grave-digger’s strike leads to disasterous consequences in this 1954 story from Voodoo comics:            

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1994: An Insane Premise

Posted on September 2, 2019 by corvusfugit

In an afterword to the 25th anniversary edition of Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth tells a story about the first lines of his novels. When he was living in Chicago in the late 1950’s, he says, he once went to a … Continue reading →

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1307: Qualiter caput hominis situatur

Posted on September 1, 2019 by corvusfugit

This llustration from an early fourteenth century compendium shows the five functions of the brain: perception, imagination, estimation, cogitation, and memory. Drawn from the works of Thomas Aquinas and the Arabic philosopher Avicenna, the theory posits that sensory information enters … Continue reading →

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1844: The Real Brain of All Things

Posted on August 31, 2019 by corvusfugit

That which is for me through the medium of money—that for which I can pay (i.e., which money can buy)—that am I myself, the possessor of the money. The extent of the power of money is the extent of my … Continue reading →

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1965: Lo, The Mystique City

Posted on August 28, 2019 by corvusfugit

Betye Saar: Lo, The Mystique City (1965)

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2016: Untitled 003

Posted on August 26, 2019 by corvusfugit

Xi Huang: Untitled 003 (2016) (source)

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1973: Homage

Posted on August 25, 2019 by corvusfugit

Joan Miró: Homage to Miró (1973)

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