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Tag Archives: 20th Century
1934: Slugged
Carl Williams, Organizer for the United Mine Workers, District 19; Harlan County, Kentucky, 1934 Written on image reverse: “Slugged.” (source)
1895 & 1901: Two Angels
Carlos Schwabe: Angel of Hope (1895) Mikhail Vasilevich Nesterov: The Angel of Sorrow (1900-1901)
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Angels, Art, Carlos Schwabe, Mikhail Vasilevich Nesterov, Painting, Russia, Switzerland
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1961: Turboflite
1961 Chrysler Turboflite “The Turboflite proved to be a sensation on the show circuit, but the striking concept car never reached production. Chrysler did continue to develop the turbine engine for use in passenger cars, but even this eventually proved … Continue reading
1932: Island Palaces
Yoshida Hiroshi: Island Palaces in Udaipur (1932) Udaipur (1931) El Capitan, from the series The United States (1925) Glittering Sea, from the series Inland Sea (1926) Deer in Kasuga (1928)
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Tagged 20th Century, Art, India, Japan, Printmaking, USA, Yoshida Hiroshi
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1914: A Stone’s Throw
Rocks thrown through the windows of Buckingham Palace by protesting Suffragettes in 1914: “If a constitutional deputation is refused, we must present a stone message.” “Constitutional methods being ignored drive us to window smashing.” In the United Kingdom, women over … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Democracy, Direct Action, Feminism, Great Britain, Voting Rights, Women
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1949: Albert Einstein Tells You Why Socialism
The individual has become more conscious than ever of his dependence upon society. But he does not experience this dependence as a positive asset, as an organic tie, as a protective force, but rather as a threat to his natural … Continue reading
1962: Mean Machine
Advertisement for General Motors’s “fully functional Firebird III space-age car” in the Souvenir Program for the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair. (source)
1904: A Nightmare
In 1904…I was staying at the Hotel Scholastika, on the borders of the Aachensee, in Austria. I dreamed one night that I was walking down a sort of pathway between two fields, separated from these last by high iron railings, … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Animals, Austria, Books, Dreams, Great Britain, Horses, J. W. Dunne, Oddities, Psychology, Time
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1910: The Revolution Will Be Colorized
Klimbin (colorizer): Emiliano Zapata (source)
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Tagged 20th Century, Art, Emiliano Zapata, Klimbin, Latino/as/x, Mexico, Photography, Photoshop, Revolution
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1960’s: Music Lessons
Jiří Kolář: Globus s notovými osnovami (1960’s) (source) The literal translation seems to be something like “Globe with a curriculum of musical scores.” So maybe “Globe with Music Lessons”?
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Tagged 20th Century, Art, Censorship, Collage, Czech Republic, Geography, Jiří Kolář, Music
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