Welcome to corvusfugit.com!
Corvus fugit means "the crow flies."-
Join 575 other subscribers
Recent Top Posts
Blogroll
Tags
- 1860's
- 1870's
- 1880's
- 1890's
- 1900's
- 1910's
- 1920's
- 1930's
- 1940's
- 1950's
- 1960's
- 1970's
- 2000's
- 2010's
- Africa
- African-Americans
- Animals
- Art
- Belgium
- Birds
- Books
- Children
- Christianity
- Drawing
- France
- Germany
- Great Britain
- Italy
- Labor
- Landscapes
- LGBTQ
- Mammals
- Miniatures
- Netherlands
- New York City
- Painting
- Photography
- Poetry
- Portraits
- Printmaking
- Religion
- Science Fiction
- Sculpture
- Seascapes
- Ships & Sailing
- The Sky
- Trees
- Unions
- USA
- Women
Tag Archives: Poland
1920: Seascape
Ludwik Cylkow: Untitled Seascape (c 1920)
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1920's, 20th Century, Art, Ludwik Cylkow, Painting, Poland, Seascapes
Leave a comment
1964: Oh, My Mangled Head!
In his book Alice in Many Tongues (1964), Warren Weaver spends the last chapter using a curious method to evaluate various translations of Alice in Wonderland. He takes the same passage from each translation—a portion of the Mad Tea-Party—and asks … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1960's, 20th Century, Africa, Alice, Books, Children, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Language, Poetry, Poland, Russia, South America, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Translation, USA, Warren Weaver
Leave a comment
1894: Swans
Józef Pankiewicz: Nocturne: Swans in the Saxon Garden in Warsaw by Night (1894)
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1890's, 1900's, Animals, Art, Birds, Józef Pankiewicz, Poland, Swans, Water
Leave a comment
1960: Fasten Your Seatbelts
Based on a novel by Stanisław Lem, the 1960 East German/Polish film The Silent Star is set in the future of 1970, when explorations in the Gobi desert unearth an strange crystalline object containing a fragmentary message from Venus. It … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1960's, 20th Century, Film, Germany, Kurt Maetzig, Poland, Science Fiction, Socialism & Communism
Leave a comment
1920: General Confusion
Stanislaw Witkiewicz: General Confusion (1920)
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1920's, 20th Century, Art, Painting, Poland, Stanislaw Witkiewicz
Leave a comment
1898: Spring Flood
Stanislav Zhukovsky: Spring Flood (1898)
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Art, Landscapes, Painting, Poland, Stanislav Zhukovsky, Trees
Leave a comment
1929: Power Plant
Wiktor Jekimenko: Łódź Power Plant (c. 1929)
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1920's, 20th Century, Photography, Poland, Wiktor Jekimenko
Leave a comment
1915: Das Ghetto
Jan Bulhak: Das Ghetto (1915); Vilnius, Lithuania
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1910's, 20th Century, Art, Cityscapes, Jan Bulhak, Judaism, Lithuania, Photography, Poland
Leave a comment
2011: The Black Square
Jakub Woynarowski: from the cycle Wunderkamera (2011)
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 21st Century, Collage, Cubes, Jakub Woynarowski, Poland
Leave a comment
corvusfugit.com 