Tag Archives: 1950’s

1958: Firebird III

Posted on July 6, 2021 by corvusfugit

The General Motors Firebird III was built in 1958, debuted as a concept car at Motorama in 1959, and was featured at the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair.

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1953: Description

Posted on July 3, 2021 by corvusfugit

A description of what we would now call a depressive episode from a 1953 story by Jean Ferry, “The Traveler with Luggage”: As a result of incidents still obscure to me, I suffered an absolutely atrocious mental breakdown in the … Continue reading →

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1959: Satchmo Talking

Posted on October 18, 2020 by corvusfugit

Collages by jazz great Louis Armstrong, mostly done on reel-to-reel tape boxes. Dates on the newspapers used range from 1959 to 1971, the year of his death.                           … Continue reading →

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1950: Rumble at the Café des Poètes

Posted on August 26, 2020 by corvusfugit

Stolen poems incite a rumble in Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus (1950).

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1957: Arketex

Posted on August 25, 2020 by corvusfugit

Arketex Ceramics Corporation catalog, 1957.

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1957: South to Southwesterly Winds Tomorrow

Posted on April 14, 2020 by corvusfugit

Kay Sage: South to Southwesterly Winds Tomorrow (1957)

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1953: And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur

Posted on April 13, 2020 by corvusfugit

Leonora Carrington: And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur (1953)

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1958: Work

Posted on December 23, 2019 by corvusfugit

Kazuo Shiraga: Work II (1958)

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1954: Morning on the Volga

Posted on November 11, 2019 by corvusfugit

Georgy Nissky: Morning on the Volga (1954)

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1959: Capital and Labor

Posted on September 2, 2019 by corvusfugit

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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