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May 16

cavetocanvas:

George Catlin, Dying Buffalo, Shot with an Arrow, 1832-33

cavetocanvas:

George Catlin, Dying Buffalo, Shot with an Arrow, 1832-33

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oldbookillustrations:

The old clock on the stairs.
William Ladd Taylor, from Our home and country, introduction by William Howe Downes, New York, 1908.
(Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

The old clock on the stairs.

William Ladd Taylor, from Our home and country, introduction by William Howe Downes, New York, 1908.

(Source: archive.org)

rrosehobart:

Jindřich Štyrský and Toyen, 1929
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rrosehobart:

Jindřich Štyrský and Toyen, 1929

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May 15

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realityayslum:

Anne Brigman - Travail, 1912 / reworked from earlier negative c1940.
… via the George Eastman House

realityayslum:

Anne Brigman - Travail, 1912 / reworked from earlier negative c1940.

… via the George Eastman House

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Le genie de l’espece by Wolfgang Paalen, 1938 [T]he surrealist use of bones as material in connection with war and destruction becomes evident in Wolfgang Paalen’s 1938 bone pistol Le Genie de l’Espece, dating from the eve of the Second World War. In this work, chicken bones simulate the shape of the deadly weapon in the moulded trough of a velvet-lined pistol casket. Cause and effect seem to be coalesced in a matrix - the bones, arranged as a fantastic firearm, present death as the deliberate intention and inevitable result of the use of weaponry and are thus meant as an unmistakeable warning of conflict resolution by force. [ftp]

Le genie de l’espece by Wolfgang Paalen, 1938

[T]he surrealist use of bones as material in connection with war and destruction becomes evident in Wolfgang Paalen’s 1938 bone pistol Le Genie de l’Espece, dating from the eve of the Second World War. In this work, chicken bones simulate the shape of the deadly weapon in the moulded trough of a velvet-lined pistol casket. Cause and effect seem to be coalesced in a matrix - the bones, arranged as a fantastic firearm, present death as the deliberate intention and inevitable result of the use of weaponry and are thus meant as an unmistakeable warning of conflict resolution by force. [ftp]

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beautyandterrordance:

Peter Cushing as Arthur Grimsdyke, in Tales From The Crypt.

beautyandterrordance:

Peter Cushing as Arthur Grimsdyke, in Tales From The Crypt.

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May 13

dulltooldimbulb:

From THE EARLY IRVING KLAW by jim linderman

dulltooldimbulb:

From THE EARLY IRVING KLAW by jim linderman

venusmilk:

Faust. Goethe. Willy Pogany. Signed. Only 100 copies.
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venusmilk:

Faust. Goethe. Willy Pogany. Signed. Only 100 copies.

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sakrogoat:

Francisco de Goya - The Monk

sakrogoat:

Francisco de Goya - The Monk

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