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Tag Archives: 1980’s
1986: The Fist
Robert Graham: Monument to Joe Louis in Detroit, Michigan (1986) Louis—whose family moved to Detroit in 1926—was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949 and one of the greatest heavyweights of all time. He is considered the first … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930's, 1940's, 1980's, 20th Century, African-Americans, Art, Detroit, Joe Louis, Robert Graham, Sculpture, Sports, USA
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1989: The Wish Being Father to the Thought
Stephen Bush: L. L. The Wish Being Father to the Thought (1989) (source)
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Tagged 1980's, 20th Century, Art, Australia, Painting, Shakespeare, Stephen Bush
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1983: None But the Fool
Laurence Olivier during a break in the filming of King Lear in 1983. KENT I know you. Where’s the king? Gentleman Contending with the fretful element: Bids the winds blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled water … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, 1980's, 20th Century, Drama, Laurence Olivier, LGBTQ, Meteorology, Photography, Shakespeare
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1989: Overcome Evil with Good
Mineworkers at the Pittston Coal Company went on strike on April 5, 1989. The company had unilaterally made cuts to workers’ health care and ceased providing health care benefits to about 1,500 retirees, widows, and disabled miners. It had also … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980's, 1990's, 20th Century, Labor, Mines, Photography, Rich Trumka, Strikes, Unions
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1980: Raven and the First People
To The Haida, Raven was the Bringer of Light and before Raven the world was nothing more than a gigantic flood. Raven was the Maker of Things, as well as the Transformer, Magician and Healer. Raven was bored of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980's, 20th Century, Animals, Art, Bill Reid, Birds, Haida, Mythology, Native Americans, Ravens, Sculpture
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1981: The Innocent Eye
Mark Tansey: The Innocent Eye Test (1981) The title of this painting is taken from a book by the artist John Ruskin, The Elements of Drawing (1857), where, in a footnote, Ruskin says that to see as an artist requires … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, 1890's, 1980's, 19th Century, 20th Century, Animals, Art, Books, Claude Monet, Colors, Cows, Drawing, France, Great Britain, John Ruskin, Landscapes, Mark Tansey, Netherlands, Painting, Paulus Potter, USA
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2013: 1989
Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger create minuature versions of scenes from iconic photographs using scale models and other materials. The image above, for example—which might at first seem to be Charlie Cole’s famous picture of the “tank man” from the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980's, 2010's, 20th Century, 21st Century, Adrian Sonderegger, Art, China, Germany, Jojakim Cortis, Miniatures, Photography
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1986: Blast Furnace
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Blast Furnace: Völklingen, Saar, Germany (1986; printed 1989)
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Tagged 1980's, 20th Century, Art, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Germany, Industry, Photography, Women
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