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Tag Archives: 18th Century
1784: Whimsical Associations
From Paul Fussell’s Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (1965): “In ‘The Poplar Field’ …William Cowper…unwittingly allows the whimsical associations of triple meter to work against him.” The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade And the whispering sound of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1890's, 18th Century, 1960's, 19th Century, 20th Century, Art, Claude Monet, France, Great Britain, Landscapes, Painting, Paul Fussell, Poetry, Trees, William Cowper
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1720: Women Working
Giacomo Ceruti: Women Working on Pillow Lace (c. 1720)
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Tagged 18th Century, Art, Giacomo Ceruti, Italy, Labor, Painting, Textiles, Women
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1791: Picking Clams
Utagawa Toyokuni: Picking Clams (ca. 1791)
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Tagged 18th Century, Art, Food and Drink, Japan, Printmaking, Utagawa Toyokuni, Women
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1943: Workers and Paintings
Honoré Sharrer: Workers and Paintings (1943) I can’t identify all the paintings in this painting. Leave a comment if you can fill in the blanks: Hugo Gellert : Free Man’s Duties (No 4) … Continue reading
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Tagged 16th Century, 1850's, 18th Century, 1930's, 1940's, 19th Century, 20th Century, African-Americans, Art, Dance, Diego Rivera, François Boucher, France, Grant Wood, Honoré Daumier, Honoré Sharrer, Hugo Gellert, Jean-François Millet, Labor, Madame de Pompadour, Mirrors, Netherlands, Pablo Picasso, Painting, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Portraits, Printmaking, Spain, USA, Women
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1740: Thangka Depicting Vajrabhairava
Thangka Depicting Vajrabhairava (1740) This thangka, a type of Tibetan painting that uses ground mineral pigment on cotton or silk, shows Yamantaka Vajrabhairava, a deity in the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism. He is shown with nine heads (the largest … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, Art, Buddhism, Painting, Religion, TIbet
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1773: An Extraordinary Animal
In his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, James Boswell famously recounts his travels with Samuel Johnson in the highlands and western islands of Scotland. The year was 1773; Johnson was in his mid-sixties. In an 1885 edition of … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, Animals, Art, Australia, Books, George Stubbs, Great Britain, James Boswell, Kangaroos, Mammals, Painting, Samuel Johnson, Scotland
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2017: Walt Whitman’s House
Marsden Hartley: Walt Whitman’s House, 328 Mickle Street, Camden, New Jersey (c. 1905) From 2017 Google Streetview: Whitman’s house today—now 328 Dr Martin Luther King Blvd—and the view from its windows, Camden County Jail: We two, how long we were … Continue reading
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Tagged 1860's, 18th Century, 1900's, 2010's, 20th Century, 21st Century, LGBTQ, Marsden Hartley, Martin Luther King Jr., Photography, Poetry, Prisons, USA, Walt Whitman
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