Tag Archives: 20th Century

1956: I’m Putting My Queer Shoulder to the Wheel

Posted on July 4, 2017 by corvusfugit

America America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing. America two dollars and twenty-seven cents January 17, 1956. I can’t stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb … Continue reading →

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1964: I Haven’t Lost the Faith

Posted on July 4, 2017 by corvusfugit

MLK preaches on July 4, 1965, two years after the March on Washington: About two years ago now, I stood with many of you who stood there in person and all of you who were there in spirit before the … Continue reading →

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2012: The Birds

Posted on July 3, 2017 by corvusfugit

stuntkid: The Birds (2012) (source)

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1927: Death to the Machines!

Posted on July 3, 2017 by corvusfugit

     This program for the London premiere of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis in 1927 includes a comparison, in parallel columns, of the novel and the screenplay, both of which were written by by Lang’s collaborator (and wife) Thea von Harbou. The … Continue reading →

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1914: The Workers Produce Everything!

Posted on July 3, 2017 by corvusfugit

“The workers produce Everything! If you walk through the streets of a town or a city, and look around, Everything that you can see—Factories, Machinery, Houses, Railways, Tramways, Canals, Furniture, Clothing, Food and the very road or pavement you stand … Continue reading →

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1793: In Saddam Hussein’s Basement

Posted on July 3, 2017 by corvusfugit

Title page of a volume from a multi-volume Talmud set published in Vienna in 1793 by Yozef Hroshontsḳi and recovered from the flooded basement of the Mukhabarat, Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters, in 2003. Tens of thousands of Jewish documents were … Continue reading →

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1920: Thomas Shields Clarke Leaves his Autochromes

Posted on July 3, 2017 by corvusfugit

    The Autochrome Lumière—patented in 1903 by the brothers Lumière in France and first marketed in 1907—was the first method of making color photographs, and quickly become popular among amateur photographers like Thomas Shields Clarke, an American painter and … Continue reading →

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1965: Struggling from Darkness

Posted on July 2, 2017 by corvusfugit

If we approach the novel with one eye on the natural sciences today, we may say that it assembles its structure from…models of existence or reality in a manner that will hopefully be more true and more real than the … Continue reading →

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1903: Along the Shore

Posted on June 30, 2017 by corvusfugit

William Trost Richards: Along the Shore (1903)

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1934: Shadows

Posted on June 28, 2017 by corvusfugit

Hans Emmenegger: Hard Shadow Cast on Trunk (1934)

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