Tag Archives: Women

1982: Excess—The Factory

Posted on June 25, 2017 by corvusfugit

The great factory, the universe, the one that breathes for you. There’s no other air but what it pumps, expels. You are inside. All space is occupied : all has become waste. The skin, the teeth, the gaze. You move … Continue reading →

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1892: Its Leaves Began to Turn to Flame

Posted on June 24, 2017 by corvusfugit

From The Gateway (“A magazine devoted to literature, economics, and social service”) Vol. XIX, No. 2 (September 1912): Two friends, at a distance of some miles from each other, had the same bizarre dream. The first account comes to us … Continue reading →

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1967: The Girl in the Air with the Most Beautiful Hair

Posted on June 23, 2017 by corvusfugit

Ralph William Williams: TWA Hostess Judy Neumann (1967) [Breck shampoo ad] (source)

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1969: Big Sea

Posted on June 22, 2017 by corvusfugit

Vija Celmins: Untitled (Big Sea #1) (1969)

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1943: Hazel Ying Lee

Posted on June 20, 2017 by corvusfugit

After Hazel Ying Lee earned her pilot’s license in Portland, Oregon in 1932, she traveled to China with the hopes of joining the Chinese air force and helping to fend off growing Japanese aggression. Turned down because she was a … Continue reading →

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1573: A Hundred Sundry Flowers

Posted on June 17, 2017 by corvusfugit

The full title of George Gascoigne’s 1573 collection of courtly poetry is A Hundredth Sundry Flowres bound up in one small Posie. Gathered partly (by translation) in the fyne outlandish Gardens of Euripides, Ovid, Petrarch, Ariosto and others; and partly … Continue reading →

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1920’s: Portraits

Posted on June 16, 2017 by corvusfugit

Winold Reiss: Turtle (1920) Japanese Student II (1925) Nenauaki , Queen Woman (1928) Harlem Girl I (1925)

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1883: The Armed Goddess

Posted on June 14, 2017 by corvusfugit

THE ARMED GODDESS I dreamed that I sat reading in my study, with books lying about all round me. Suddenly a voice, marvellously clear and silvery, called me by name. Starting up and turning, I saw behind me a long … Continue reading →

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2016: Emanation

Posted on June 12, 2017 by corvusfugit

Sukhi Barber: Emanation (2016) (source)

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2016: Land Operation

Posted on June 11, 2017 by corvusfugit

Estelle Chrétien: Opération terrestre (2016) (source)

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