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Tag Archives: 1970’s
1975: Fred Hampton’s Door
Dana C. Chandler: Fred Hampton’s Door 2 (1975) Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton was drugged and murdered by the Chicago Police in 1969. Dana Chandler first memorialized the event in 1970 with a small trompe I’oeil painting of a … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970's, 20th Century, African-Americans, Art, Civil Rights, Dana C. Chandler, Doors, Fred Hampton, Police, Sculpture, USA
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1978: The Far Side of the Moon
Desiree E. Stuart-Alexander: Geologic map of the central far side of the Moon (1978) [detail]; full map here. (source)
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Tagged 1970's, 20th Century, Astronomy, Desiree E. Stuart-Alexander, Geology, Maps, The Moon, USA, Women
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1973: Carnival
Rigaud Benoit: Carnival of Flowers (1973)
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Tagged 1970's, 20th Century, Art, Haiti, Painting, Plants, Rigaud Benoit
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6th Century: St. Brendan’s Isle
The 10th century Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis relates the story of Saint Brendan the Abbot (c. AD 484 – c. 577), who takes a group of fourteen monks on an expedition in search of the island of Paradise. After a … Continue reading
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Tagged 10th Century, 1970's, 20th Century, 6th Century, Books, Christianity, Games, Ireland, Music, Saints, Ships & Sailing
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1974: Author Awarded Avocado
The opening of Walter Abish’s 1974 novel, Alphabetical Africa: Ages ago, Alex, Allen and Alva arrived at Antibes, and Alva allowing all, allowing anyone, against Alex’s admonition, against Allen’s angry assertion: another African amusement . . . anyhow, as all … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970's, 20th Century, Africa, Ants, Archaeology, Austria, Books, Novels, USA, Walter Abish
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1970: Wet Paint
Adrian Piper: Catalysis III (1970)
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Tagged 1970's, 20th Century, Adrian Piper, African-Americans, Art, Conceptual Art, USA, Women
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1970: Knots
A selection from R. D. Laing’s Knots (1970). Here is another: Mother loves me because she is good I am bad, to think she is bad therefore if I am good she is good and loves me because I am … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970's, 20th Century, Books, Great Britain, Mental Health, Mothers, Poetry, Psychology, R. D. Laing, Scotland, Writing
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