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Tag Archives: USA
1936: Then It Will Be Over
Here we are, alone again. It’s all so slow, so heavy, so sad … I’ll be old soon. Then at last it will be over. So many people have come into my room. They’ve talked. They haven’t said much. They’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930's, 2000's, 20th Century, 21st Century, Adam Stennett, Animals, Art, Books, Death, France, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Mammals, Medicine, Mice, Novels, Painting, USA, Writing
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2010: Runaway
Aubrey Longley-Cook: Runaway (2010); Longley-Cook’s blog is here.
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Tagged 2010's, 21st Century, Animals, Animation, Art, Aubrey Longley-Cook, Dogs, Mammals, Textiles, USA
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1957: Carburetor
Walter Tandy Murch: Carburetor (1957)
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Art, Canada, Machines, Painting, USA, Walter Tandy Murch
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1989: Walking House
Laurie Simmons: Walking House (1989)
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Tagged 1980's, 20th Century, Art, Houses, Laurie Simmons, Miniatures, Sculpture, USA, Women
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1973: Literature
Nick Cardy: From Beyond the Unknown Vol. 1 #23 (August, 1973)
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Tagged 1970's, 20th Century, Animals, Apes, Art, Books, Comics, Daniel Defoe, Herman Melville, Libraries, Mammals, Nick Cardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, USA
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2010: We Chast Butterflys
Found in a park, 2010: GUY CLUES 1. has gray hair 2. wears glasses 3. looks like mr. schultz 4. construction man day 2 very dusty [?] suny bisx [?] mayla aolo [?] must erestmangone [?] mushengone [?] blanck nin … Continue reading
1968: BE THE THING!
An exercise from Making It Strange #4, a workbook for elementary school students published by Harper & Row in 1968: BE ZERO AND SEE THE WORLD Simple things often seem dull until you get inside them and think the way … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960's, 20th Century, Dolls, Education, Mathematics, Photography, USA, Writing
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1979: Brown v. Board
Milton Williams: Parade Thrills! Taken May 17, 1979, on the 25th anniversary of the US Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which ruled that public schools could not be segregated.
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Tagged African-Americans, Art, Civil Rights, Milton Williams, Music, Photography, USA
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1976: House
Francesca Woodman: House #4, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976
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Tagged 1970's, 20th Century, Art, Francesca Woodman, Houses, Photography, Portraits, USA, Women
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2018: The Sky
Earlier this evening; see more here.
