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Tag Archives: 20th Century
1989: Drain
Robert Gober: Drain (1989)
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1953: Work
Charles White: Work (1953)
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1935: Found Photo
I took a guess on the date.
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1974: Ancient Symbols
SYMBOLS OR IDEOGRAPHS This chart shows the relationship between the various symbols found in primitive art throughout the world. By carefully following along the directional lines drawn between the symbols, one can easily trace the gradual growth of each from … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970's, 20th Century, Art, Books, Design, Ireland, John G. Merne
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1915: Help the Furrier Strikers
Happy May Day!
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1951: An Elusive Charm
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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1969: On the Moon
Thomas Schmagmeier made this map of the Apollo 11 landing site overlaid on a soccer field to give a sense of scale to the distances traveled by the astronauts. He also made a baseball version. (These are revised versions of … Continue reading
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1957: Description
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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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Agriculture, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Books, Food and Drink, France, Maps, Novels
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1900: Family
Carl Fredrik Hill: Family (c. 1900)
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1966: A World of Limitless Dimensions
Jack Kirby: collage from Fantastic Four Vol. 1, #51 (June, 1966) Original art:
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