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Tag Archives: USA
1932: New Art Saves Strange Beasts
A headline from this article in Popular Science Monthly, January 1932:
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Tagged 1930's, 20th Century, Animals, Art, Mammals, Museums, Rhinoceroses, Science, USA, Zebras
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1969: Better Than Those Motherfuckers
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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Tagged 1960's, 20th Century, African-Americans, Art, Music, Painting, The Beatles, USA, Wadsworth Jarrell
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1957: Arketex
Arketex Ceramics Corporation catalog, 1957.
1895: Long Beach
George Howell Gay: Surf, Long Beach, Rockport; I made up the date.
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Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Art, George Howell Gay, Painting, Seascapes, USA
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1955: Tomorrow is Never
Kay Sage: Tomorrow is Never (1955) DESTINY If I turn back at least I shall not have the sun in my face. But then there will always be the long shadow of myself before me.
1978: Superman vs. Muhammad Ali
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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Tagged 1970's, 20th Century, African-Americans, Comics, Muhammad Ali, Neal Adams, Science Fiction, Sports, Superman, USA
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1874: Seascape
Alfred Thompson Bricher: Seascape (1874)
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Tagged 1870's, 19th Century, Alfred Thompson Bricher, Art, Painting, Seascapes, Ships & Sailing, USA
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1979: Westside Dreams
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
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Tagged 1940's, 1970's, 20th Century, Art, Cars, Daniel Salazar, Daniel Valdez, Film, Latino/as/x, Photography, Theater, USA
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1939: Revolt
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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Tagged 1830's, 1930's, 19th Century, 20th Century, Africa, African-Americans, Art, Hale Woodruff, Law, Libraries, Murals, Painting, Resistance, Ships & Sailing, Sierra Leone, Slavery, USA
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1933: Dreams of the Third Reich
A selection from Charlotte Beradt’s Dreams of the Third Reich. Beradt was a journalist in Germany when Hitler took power and, inspired by the first dream below “set out to collect the dreams the Nazi regime had generated”—which she did … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolph Hitler, Books, Charlotte Beradt, Dreams, Fascism, Germany, Posters, Resistance, Shoes, Sophie Scholl, USA, Women, WWII
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