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1907: Kampen, Sylt
Wenzel Hablik: Kampen, Sylt: Dark Clouds, Mudflats (1907)
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Tagged 1900's, 20th Century, Art, Germany, Landscapes, Painting, The Sky, Wenzel Hablik
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1897: Orpheus
Pierre Amédée Marcel-Béronneau: Orpheus in Hades (1897)
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Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Art, France, Hell, Music, Mythology, Orpheus, Painting, Pierre Amédée Marcel-Béronneau
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1959: Capital and Labor
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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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Christianity, Comics, Nuns, Popes, Religion, Strikes, Unions, USA
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1954: Zombies, Unite!
For Labor Day: a grave-digger’s strike leads to disasterous consequences in this 1954 story from Voodoo comics:
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Art, Comics, Death, Strikes, Unions, Zombies
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1994: An Insane Premise
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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Tagged 1970's, 1990's, 20th Century, Autobiography, Books, Film, Judaism, Novels, Philip Roth, USA, Writing
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1307: Qualiter caput hominis situatur
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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Tagged 14th Century, Art, Avicenna, France, Great Britain, Illustration, Philosophy, Psychology, Thomas Aquinas
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1844: The Real Brain of All Things
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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Tagged 1840's, 19th Century, Germany, Karl Marx, Money, Philosophy
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1965: Lo, The Mystique City
Betye Saar: Lo, The Mystique City (1965)
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Tagged African-Americans, Art, Betye Saar, Cities, Printmaking, The Moon, USA, Women
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2016: Untitled 003
Xi Huang: Untitled 003 (2016) (source)
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Tagged 2010's, 21st Century, Art, China, Photography, Xi Huang
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1973: Homage
Joan Miró: Homage to Miró (1973)
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Tagged 1970's, 20th Century, Art, Eyes, Joan Miró, Printmaking, Spain
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