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1956: Portrait
Seydou Keïta: Untitled (1956)
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Tagged 20th Century, Africa, Art, French Sudan, Mali, Photography, Portraits, Seydou Keïta, Women
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1821: In Life the Firmest Friend
From a letter written by Percy Bysshe Shelley to Thomas Love Peacock, August 1821: Lord Byron gets up at two. I get up, quite contrary to my usual custom…at twelve. After breakfast, we sit talking till six. From six till … Continue reading
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Tagged 1820's, 19th Century, Animals, Art, Clifton Tomson, Dogs, George Gordon Byron, Great Britain, Mammals, Painting, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poetry, Portraits, Thomas Love Peacock, Writing
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12th Century: Monster
This illustration comes from a series of handscrolls telling the legends of the Shinto Kitano Tenjin Shrine, located in Kamakura, Japan. The shrine is dedicated to Sugawara no Michizane, a 9th century scholar, poet, and statesman who came to be … Continue reading
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Tagged 12th Century, 9th Century, Art, Books, Japan, Monsters, Religion, Shinto, Sugawara no Michizane
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1957: Carburetor
Walter Tandy Murch: Carburetor (1957)
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Art, Canada, Machines, Painting, USA, Walter Tandy Murch
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1878: Dream
I had the earliest dream I can remember, a dream which was to preoccupy me all my life. I was then between three and four years old. The vicarage stood quite alone near Laufen castle, and there was a big … Continue reading
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Tagged 1870's, 19th Century, Carl Jung, Dreams, Mothers, Psychology, Switzerland
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1989: Walking House
Laurie Simmons: Walking House (1989)
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Tagged 1980's, 20th Century, Art, Houses, Laurie Simmons, Miniatures, Sculpture, USA, Women
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1660: Theory
The 17th century Dutch minister Johan Picard spent several years in Drenthe, where he became interested in the ancient stone structures that could still be seen in the area. His research eventually led to the publication of his book A … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, Archaeology, Books, Giants, Johan Picard, Megaliths, Netherlands, Oddities
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1620: History of Rainbows
The 1620 edition of Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum contains a plan for a collective work containing all world knowledge “made to the scale of the universe”: For the world is not to be circumscribed within the narrow confines of the … Continue reading
1970: Knots
A selection from R. D. Laing’s Knots (1970). Here is another: Mother loves me because she is good I am bad, to think she is bad therefore if I am good she is good and loves me because I am … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970's, 20th Century, Books, Great Britain, Mental Health, Mothers, Poetry, Psychology, R. D. Laing, Scotland, Writing
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