Tag Archives: 1950’s

1954: Zombies, Unite!

Posted on September 2, 2019 by corvusfugit

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

Posted on August 10, 2019 by corvusfugit

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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1955: 憶西環

Posted on July 14, 2019 by corvusfugit

Fan Ho: Surreal Sai Wan (c 1950-1960)

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1952: The Grim Thoughts which Harass Me

Posted on May 12, 2019 by corvusfugit

Baffling Mysteries No. 7 (March 1952); art by Lou Cameron, found here.

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1950: Seascape

Posted on September 26, 2018 by corvusfugit

A seascape by mid-20th-century French artist Edouard Mandon; title and date unknown. I haven’t been able to find out much about him.

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1953: Description

Posted on June 26, 2018 by corvusfugit

As for his feet, sometimes he wore on each a sock, or on the one a sock and on the other a stocking, or a boot, or a shoe, or a slipper, or a sock and a boot, or a … Continue reading →

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1957: Carburetor

Posted on June 11, 2018 by corvusfugit

Walter Tandy Murch: Carburetor (1957)

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1953: Work

Posted on May 8, 2018 by corvusfugit

Charles White: Work (1953)

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1951: An Elusive Charm

Posted on April 29, 2018 by corvusfugit

Endpaper maps from William T. Innes’s Exotic Aquarium Fishes (13th ed., 1951), with a grid the reader can use to find the location of the various fishes listed in the book.

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1957: Description

Posted on April 28, 2018 by corvusfugit

From Alain Robbe-Grillet’s 1957 novel, Jealousy: Now the shadow of the southwest column– at the corner of the veranda on the bedroom side– falls across the garden. The sun, still low in the eastern sky, rakes the valley from the … Continue reading →

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