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Tag Archives: 20th Century
1912: Many-Headed
Demons associated with astrological signs—from a Persian manuscript on magic and astrology, 1912.
1968: I Had a Dream
Edward Biberman: I Had a Dream (1968)
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1975: Huelga and Boycott
Happy Cesar Chavez Day! Chavez with his dogs Huelga (“strike”) and Boycott. He originally got them simply as guard dogs, but over time the relationship deepened. Boycott went everywhere with him—and he gave credit to both of them for leading … Continue reading
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1968: Title Unknown
Anne Gill: [Title Unknown] (1968)
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1921: Sweet Monsters
Rose O’Neill: Man and Earth (1921)—from a series entitled Sweet Monsters.
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1921: She Whipped up the Snakes and Ascended High Over the City
An illustration for Nathanial Hawthorne’s Tanglewood Tales by Virginia Frances Sterrett (1921). Found on Public Domain Review.
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1929: From a Paris Plane
Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson: From a Paris Plane (1929)
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1902: Vines
Paul Ranson: Vines (c. 1902)
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1997: Translation / Transformation
In a 1997 essay on translation, the writer Harry Mathews cites Marcel Benabou’s version of Keats’s “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”: Ah, singe débotté, / Hisse un jouet fort et vert! It’s not quite a translation: the … Continue reading
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1936: Gold Were His Limbs where He Was Bird
In 1921, the Istituto nazionale dantesco in Milan commissioned a lavish edition of the Divine Comedy to celebrate the 600th anniversary of Dante’s death; the edition was to include an original color plate for each of the 100 canti of … Continue reading
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