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2015: Cyborg
Rodrigo Galdino: Maasai Cyborg (2015) (source)
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Tagged 2010's, 21st Century, Africa, Afrofuturism, Digital Art, Kenya, Maasai, Rodrigo Galdino, Science Fiction, Tanzania, USA
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1875: A Day Less for Examination
Evelyn De Morgan: Life drawing of a seated male model inscribed “A Day Less for Examination” [detail] (1875) (source)
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Tagged 1870's, 19th Century, Art, Drawing, Evelyn De Morgan, Great Britain
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1805: Cenotaph
Antonio Canova: Cenotaph for Marie Christine of Austria [detail] (1805)
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Tagged 1800's, 19th Century, Angels, Animals, Death, Italy, Lions, Sculpture
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1966: Likewise, a Jazzy Tachometer
Ad for the 1966 Buick Skylark Gran Sport.
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Tagged 1960's, 20th Century, Advertising, Cars, Ephemera, USA
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1919: Buffer Girls
William Rothenstein: Buffer Girls (1919) “Buffer girls” were women workers in the Sheffield metal industries who polished cutlery and silverware.
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Tagged 1910's, 20th Century, Art, Factories, Great Britain, Labor, Painting, Portraits, William Rothenstein, Women
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1896: Well-Deserved
Jean-Léon Gérôme: Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind (1896)
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Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Art, France, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Painting
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1898: Self-Portrait with Demons
James Ensor: Poster for the Salon: Self-Portrait with Demons (1898) (source)
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Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Art, Belgium, Demons, James Ensor, Portraits, Printmaking
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1825: Vale of Honey
The most contentious aspect of [the mid-19th-century British project to survey Ireland, 1825–46] is the way in which place names were anglicized, replaced by English alternatives or simply mis-recorded….Irish names were altered…mostly through the processes of “dictation” in which a … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Colonialism, Great Britain, Ireland, Language, P. W. Joyce
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1977: I am a Passenger / I Stay Under Glass
Esther Friedman: Iggy Pop (c. 1977); from her book of photographs, The Passenger.
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Tagged 1970's, 20th Century, Art, Esther Friedman, Germany, Iggy Pop, Photography, Punk
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1894: Ministered to by Angels
James Tissot: Jesus Ministered to by Angels (1886-1894)
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Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Angels, Art, Christianity, France, Great Britain, James Tissot, Painting, Religion
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