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1880: The House

Posted on August 7, 2017 by corvusfugit

Illustration from The Children’s Object Book (F. Warne & Co., 1880’s) (source)

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2015: First Prize

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Takayuki Fukada: 憧景 [Longing]; winner of the The International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest, 2015. (source)

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1756: Allegory

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Allegorical Frontispiece of Rome and its history from Le Antichità Romane (1756)

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1793: Charity

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William Beechey: Portrait of Sir Francis Ford’s Children Giving a Coin to a Beggar Boy (c. 1793)

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1840: The End of the World

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“Der Götter und Riesenkampff bey dem Weltuntergang” [The Gods and the Great Battle at the Apocalypse]; illustration from The World Theater, or The Universal World History From Creation To The Year 1840, etc. by C Strahlheim (1834-41).

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1918: It Is Well that No Protection Be Afforded the Bird

Posted on August 6, 2017 by corvusfugit

The Common Crow (corvus brachyrhynchos); frontispiece of The Crow and Its Relation to Man (E. R. Kalmbach, 1918). When feeding on injurious insects, crustaceans, rodents, and carrion, and when dispersing seeds of beneficial plants, the crow is working largely for … Continue reading →

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2017: The Sky

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1889: Fallen Angel

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James Ensor: The Expulsion of the Fallen Angel (1889)

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1895: Tentacles of the City

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This is the beginning of “La plaine,” the poem that opens Emile Verhaeren’s 1895 book of poems, Les villes tentaculaires [The Tentacled Cities]. The cover is by Théo van Rysselberghe (source). I couldn’t find a translation online, so I did the … Continue reading →

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2014: Homesick

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A still from Hrair Sarkissian’s video Homesick (2014), in  which he destroys a scale model of the apartment building in Damascus in which he grew up and where his parents still live.

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