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Tag Archives: 1950’s
1959: Satchmo Talking
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
Stolen poems incite a rumble in Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus (1950).
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Film, France, Jean Cocteau, María Casares, Mythology, Orpheus, Poetry, Police
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1957: Arketex
Arketex Ceramics Corporation catalog, 1957.
1957: South to Southwesterly Winds Tomorrow
Kay Sage: South to Southwesterly Winds Tomorrow (1957)
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1953: And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur
Leonora Carrington: And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur (1953)
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Animals, Children, Dogs, Leonora Carrington, Mammals, Mexico, Mythology, Painting, Women
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1958: Work
Kazuo Shiraga: Work II (1958)
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1954: Morning on the Volga
Georgy Nissky: Morning on the Volga (1954)
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Art, Georgy Nissky, Landscapes, Painting, Rivers, Soviet Union
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1959: Capital and Labor
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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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Christianity, Comics, Nuns, Popes, Religion, Strikes, Unions, USA
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1954: Zombies, Unite!
For Labor Day: a grave-digger’s strike leads to disasterous consequences in this 1954 story from Voodoo comics:
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1956: The Hound of Heaven
In 1893, English poet Francis Thompson published a poem called “The Hound of Heaven.” The work is an extended metaphor: as a hound pursues a hare in a hunt, so does God pursue the human soul to restore it to … Continue reading
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Tagged 1890's, 1930's, 1950's, 19th Century, 20th Century, Art, Christianity, Francis Thompson, Great Britain, Painting, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Robert Hale Ives Gammell, USA
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