Tag Archives: 20th Century

1969: Better Than Those Motherfuckers

Posted on August 28, 2020 by corvusfugit

Wadsworth Jarrell: Compared to What – I Am Better Than Those Motherfuckers and They Know It (1969) My painting Compared to What: I Am Better Than Those Motherfuckers and They Know It was critiqued. The form consists of graffiti-style words … Continue reading →

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1950: Rumble at the Café des Poètes

Posted on August 26, 2020 by corvusfugit

Stolen poems incite a rumble in Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus (1950).

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1957: Arketex

Posted on August 25, 2020 by corvusfugit

Arketex Ceramics Corporation catalog, 1957.

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1629: The Most Trivial Disagreements

Posted on August 15, 2020 by corvusfugit

Such personal correspondence and diaries as survive suggest that social relations from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries tended to be cool, even unfriendly. The extraordinary amount of casual interpersonal physical and verbal violence, as recorded in legal and other … Continue reading →

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1978: Superman vs. Muhammad Ali

Posted on August 8, 2020 by corvusfugit

Who would win in a fight—Superman or Muhammad Ali? The two duked it out in a 1978 comic. An evil space alien named Rat’Lar brings an armada to earth and claims that Earthlings’ warlike ways pose a threat to his … Continue reading →

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1979: Westside Dreams

Posted on August 2, 2020 by corvusfugit

Daniel Salazar: Westside Dreams (1979) This photo shows the National Chicano Dance Theater posing in front of the Denver skyline in 1979, I think probably as part of a promotional shoot for Daniel Valdez’s play Zoot Suit, which debuted that … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1940's, 1970's, 20th Century, Art, Cars, Daniel Salazar, Daniel Valdez, Film, Latino/as/x, Photography, Theater, USA | 2 Comments

1926: The Black Pirate

Posted on June 30, 2020 by corvusfugit

Advertisements in The Hochi-Shimbun, October 15, 1926.

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1939: Revolt

Posted on June 1, 2020 by corvusfugit

Hale Woodruff’s murals commemorating the revolt on the Spanish slave ship Amistad were installed in Talladega College’s Savery Library in 1939, the centennial of the uprising. The first mural depicts the moment when, on or about July 1, 1839, kidnapped … Continue reading →

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1918: Munitions Girls

Posted on May 7, 2020 by corvusfugit

Stanhope Forbes: The Munitions Girls (1918)

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1900: Triptych

Posted on May 6, 2020 by corvusfugit

Constantin Meunier: Mine Triptych (Descent, Calvary, Ascent) (c. 1900)

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