5th July
Exotic
Entomology.
'Provided for your delight are a small number of the
world's butterflies and moths, taken from Dru Drury's
three-volume monograph entitled Illustrations of
Exotic Entomology.'
Schreber's
Fabulous Beasts.
'In 1774 Johann Christian Dan Schreber authored a
multivolume set of books entitled Die Saugthiere in
Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen.
Focusing on mammals of the world, these books were
lavishly illustrated with 755 hand-colored plates.
There was a slight problem though: in most instances
the artists had never seen the animals they were
rendering onto paper. Explorers would return from
their travels and describe the animals in question to
the artists. The end result was that some of the
drawings, though representing real animals, looked
more like they had come from someone's nightmares. '
Amiens
Cathedral.
Creating
French Culture:
Treasures from the Bibliotheque Nationale de
France.
'Throughout French history the powerful have sought to
harness culture to their own ends. They understood
that the representation of power--what today we call
"image"--is a form of power itself. They patronized
artists, artisans, and intellectuals who produced
works that proclaimed the legitimacy of their rule,
reinforced their authority, and enhanced their
prestige. At times, they stifled creative impulses
incompatible with their ambition. The relationship
between power--or politics--and culture in French
history is thus an ambivalent one, defined as much by
conflict and censorship as by cooperation and
patronage ...'
The Complete Writings and Pictures
of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
West
African Mysteries.
Photography.
William
Coupon.
'I decided to fly to Bangui, the capital of the
Central African Republic, and then to Bayanga on the
Sangha River to photograph the Pygmy. The day I
arrived, a medical team was in town giving
vaccinations to the children, and it was an intense
sight. The people lived tent-like constructions that
housed two to three rooms each. The poverty was
overwhelming, and the Pygmy have been abused for many
years by the general population. '
The
Photographs
of Seydou Keita,
Mali.
Astor
Cube.
'One of the most prominent landmarks in the East
Village in Manhattan is a statue of a giant steel
cube. The cube was built at Astor Place in 1968, and
has stood there ever since. The cube can spin on its
axis, which is pretty entertaining the first time, and
requires a few people to get it moving ...'
French
Revolutionary
Pamphlets.
Zen and
Photography.
Vietnamese
Artists.Quite a collection.
Vietnamese
silk painting.
Vietnamese
lacquer painting.
Nguyen
Do Cung:
Invitation to the Best Women Workers.
Dang
Tin Truong.
Chan
Visual Arts.
Art of Zen.
Crossing
Man.
'One day when Ton was hanging out at a friend's house
he saw a perfect opportunity for a prank! On the
corner there was a crosswalk with two crosswalk signs.
Wouldn't it be nuts if you were driving along and
there actually was a guy shaped like that crossing the
street? He did ... '
The
Bible According to Cheese.
The
Diary of
Murasaki Shikibu.
'As the autumn season approaches the Tsuchimikado
becomes inexpressibly smile-giving. The tree-tops near
the pond, the bushes near the stream, are dyed in
varying tints whose colours grow deeper in the mellow
light of evening. The murmuring sound of waters
mingles all the night through with the never-ceasing
recitation of sutras which appeal more to one's heart
as the breezes grow cooler ... '
Egyptian
Artifacts.
Project
Patagonia.
In search of fossils.
Savage
Ancient Sea.
'When the last of the great dinosaurs roamed North
America,
a shallow sea covered the middle of the continent from
the Arctic
Circle to the Gulf of Mexico. Many unique creatures
lived in this
savage ancient sea...'
A
Disappearing Star
Cluster.
Brancusi.
Great
gallery of his work. Thanks to
Frizzy
Logic.
Brancusi:
Maiastra and
Bird
in Space. Thanks to
Frizzy
Logic.
The
Correspondence
of James McNeill Whistler. Via
MeFi.
The Dance of
Death in art. Thanks to
Giornale
Nuovo.
Tradestone
Gallery. Russian arts and
crafts. Via Sugar & Spicy.
Circus
Posters. Via
Solipsistic.
Impermanent
Art. Via
neurastenia.
Little
Big Books. Via
neurastenia.
Art
Frahm -
'a study of the effects of celery on loose elastic'.
Via
neurastenia.
Baudelaire.
Via
iconomy.
Cafe
Shah Bender,
Baghdad's oldest. Via
Sugar &
Spicy.
American
Girl Magazine Covers.
Via
Sugar &
Spicy.
Carte-de-Visite
Photographs by
Queensland Photographers. Via
Solipsistic.
Pulp
Magazines 1912-1913.
Via
Sugar &
Spicy.
Howard Chandler Christy Gallery. Via
Sugar &
Spicy.
The
Masses.
Via
Sugar &
Spicy.
BoxBots.
Thanks to
iconomy.
Patrick
Durand. Photographs. Via
MeFi.
Horst
Hamann.
Via
MeFi.
New
York
Vertical. Via
MeFi.
link
4th July
I've moved in!
The new house is very nice and very spacious.
It's about a hundred years old, with some
interesting things nearby - an old church,
a stream.
There's a nice big loft which can be used as
a library or something weird and arty;
nice characterful bedrooms; and a big study.
The garden is big enough without being an
encumbrance, with useful-looking shed... apple
trees, landscaped chessboard pattern pation...
Anyway, updates will resume tomorrow.
link
2nd July
Plep will not be updated for a few days as I am
in the process of moving house (though I may post
to Metafilter
if time allows). I expect to be
updating again sometime
next week. Feel free to send email! Wish you
were here!!! :)
In the spirit of housecleaning, today's entry
includes a few things I've saved up for
a while.
Nos Histoires
De L'Ile: Our Stories of the
Island. Online photographic record of French
Island, Maine.
'Nos Histoires de L'Ile (Our Stories of the Island) is
not only the title of our book, but also the
organization that has been created by current and
former residents of French Island to preserve the
unique story of our French community. In the process
of writing this book we collected over 1000
photographs of people and places of French Island.
Many were taken in the 1880's. The older ones are from
tin type photographs, but most were taken with a box
cameras. The quality of some may be poor and out of
focus, but we felt they were worth including in this
rare collection ... '
Maine
Folklife Centre.
'Welcome to the Maine Folklife Center the nation's
leading collection of folklore, oral history,
traditional music, and photographs of Maine and
Eastern Canada ... '
Malecite
and Passamaquoddy
Tales.
Save Our
Sounds.
'The Smithsonian Institution and the Library of
Congress are preserving important collections of
historical recordings of spoken word and music, from
Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" to Martin
Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, from American
Indian recordings of the 1890s to the oral histories
of ex-slaves recorded in the 1930s. '
'Included in these collections are hundreds of
thousands of recordings from every state in the nation
and from around the world, including music, songs,
poems, and speeches that have inspired artists,
leaders, and communities over the generations.'
Exploring Africa. An exhibit of maps and travel
narratives.
'This exhibit puts on display one of the hidden
resources of Thomas Cooper Library's Special
Collections, a selection from the many books of travel
and exploration purchased for the original South
Carolina College Library in the early and middle
nineteenth century. The exhibition illustrates most of
the major phases in the European exploration of
Africa, from the late fifteenth century to the late
nineteenth century ... '
Historical
Maps of Africa, 1808-1978.
When
Silk Was Gold.
'Central Asian and Chinese textiles
in the Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art.'
Ikat:
Splendid Silks of
Central Asia.
'Way stations on the Silk Road, the desert oases of
Bukhara and Samarkand (in what is now Uzbekistan) were
once glorious dynastic capitals, their status
proclaimed in gleaming, turquoise-tiled architecture.
By the nineteenth century, their political glory had
faded. But, in isolation from the expanding
industrial world, the artistry of these Central Asian
cities found a brilliant new form of expression: the
labor-intensive, richly colored, explosively patterned
silks known as ikats ... '
Chinese
Minority Textiles: Miao and
Others.
'The ethnic minorities of China have produced
fanciful, colorful costumes with distinctive flavors.
They display superlative embroidery, brocading and
batik. Objects by Miao, Shui, Dong, Yi and Zhuang
groups from the southwestern provinces of Guizhou,
Hunan and Yunnan are currently featured below. Most
costume items or accessories are decorated with
flowers, birds and animals from the surrounding
landscape -- anthropomorphic and zoomorphic images
that are often abstracted. Traditional auspicious
designs appear, even among patterns that are
completely geometric. Some parts of these minority
groups, particularly the Miao, migrated southward into
Vietnam, Laos and Thailand, where we know them as
H'mong ... '
Gallery.
Some
Miao folklore.
Vintage
Japanese Kimono.
'The elegant Japanese kimono on these pages are
one-of-a-kind works of textile art that can either be
displayed or worn. A range of decorative approaches is
shown in these kimonos: intricate embroidery in satin
stitch or metallic couching, delicate shaded resist
painting, applied gold foil, elaborate brocading, and
intricate ikat or tie dye ... '
Smithsonian
Folklife Festival.
Volcanoes
by Robert I. Tilling.
'Volcanoes destroy and volcanoes create. The
catastrophic eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18,
1980, made clear the awesome destructive power of a
volcano. Yet, over a time span longer than human
memory and record, volcanoes have played a key role in
forming and modifying the planet upon which we live.
More than 80 percent of the Earth's surface--above and
below sea level--is of volcanic origin. Gaseous
emissions from volcanic vents over hundreds of
millions of years formed the Earth's earliest oceans
and atmosphere, which supplied the ingredients vital
to evolve and sustain life. Over geologic eons,
countless volcanic eruptions have produced mountains,
plateaus, and plains, which subsequent erosion and
weathering have sculpted into majestic landscapes and
formed fertile soils ... '
Volcanoes
of the United States.
Volcanic
and Seismic Hazards on the Island
of Hawaii.
Maria Sibylla Merian
'(born in Frankfurt, 1647 – 1717) was the first known person
to record observations on insect metamorphosis. Born into a family of
artists, she soon became fascinated with insects and began studying
them obsessively. From the age of 16 until her death, she kept a
detailed journal of her entomological observations and drawings ... '
Antique Butterfly Prints from Maria Merian.
Maria Merian Postage Stamps.
Impressionist
Still Life.
' "Impressionist Still Life" is the first major
exhibition devoted to Impressionist still-life
painting. Ninety spectacular works reveal the
surprising innovations in late-19th-century still life
by such masters as Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir,
Cassatt, Courbet, Czanne, van Gogh, and Gauguin. The
exhibition traces the movement from its origins in the
Realism of Courbet through its transformation in the
late work of Czanne. Highlights include two
remarkable still lifes by Monet never before seen in
the United States and fifteen works by Czanne, one of
Impressionisms greatest still life painters ... '
Preview.
From Paris To Provincetown:
Blanche Lazzell and the Colour Woodcut.
A
Tour Through the
Covered Bridges of Maine.
Maine Women's Hall of Fame.
The Black Man's Burden:
The White Man in Africa from
the Fifteenth Century to World War I. By E.D.
Morel, 1920.
'We stand on the threshold of a new era. The moment is
propitious for the birth of an international
conscience in regard to Africa. Great social changes
are in process of development among the white peoples
of the earth. The seat of power is shifting from the
propertied classes to the producing masses. The latter
will find themselves invested before long with
executive duties in many spheres of government, with
whose problems they are not familiar; among them the
administration of dark-skinned peoples. Upon the new
Democracy in Britain, in particular, will be laid
immense tasks in this respect. These tasks constitute
in fact the greatest moral responsibility which the
Democracy of tomorrow will have to face. They cannot
be set aside. The spirit in which they are approached
will be, perhaps, for the new Democracy of Britain,
the supreme test of character ... '
Reforming
the Heart of
Darkness. The transatlantic movement protesting
King Leopold's brutal rule
in the Congo.
'At the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, King Leopold
of Belgium gained international support for his
creation of the Congo Free State through proposals to
end slavery in the Congo, protect the rights of the
natives, and guarantee free trade. In the popular
media he was often portrayed as a philanthropist who
was selflessly devoting his efforts to rescue and
"civilize" the peoples of central Africa. Five years
later, a young writer, inspired to adventure by the
celebrated travels of Henry M. Stanley and believing
the glowing reports of Leopold's rule, got a job on a
steamer headed up the Congo River. Joseph Conrad
turned his Congo experiences into Heart of Darkness,
published in 1899. During the next decade, Leopold's
rule of the Congo would increasingly become viewed
with reference to the last words of Conrad's fictional
ivory company agent, the depraved Mr. Kurtz: "The
horror! The horror!" ... '
Heart
of Darkness by
Joseph Conrad.
The
Crime of the
Congo by Arthur Conan Doyle.
The Red
Spot: Menstrual Culture.
'This site is all about periods, but cannot replace
your doctor's advice. The Red Spot is a gathering
place for the knowledge and experience that women
gain about their periods over time, not a medical
resource ... '
Eichmann's Trial: A Witness Account.
'Jewish artist Yehuda Bacon was born in 1929 in
Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. '
'He witnessed the Nazi deportation of Jews from his
home town, and was himself sent to the Czech ghetto
Theresienstadt in 1942, on the orders of Adolf
Eichmann. '
'A year later, Mr Bacon and his family were
transported to Auschwitz concentration camp. The
artist's account and drawings of his experiences
were used in evidence against Eichmann ... '
Arthur Rackham.
Illustrations for children's books.
'He never lost the joy and sense of wonderment and
he never gave in to the baser styles that fell in
and out of favor over the years. From Queen
Victoria's death in 1901 to the start of World War I,
Rackham's illustrations preserved a lifestyle and a
sensibility that kept the frighteningly modern future
at bay. His beautiful drawings were the antithesis of
the industrial advances that allowed them to be
printed at affordable prices. Even into the twenties
and thirties, his art was a constant reminder of
those aspects of innocence that had been left behind.
He always kept his gentle humor and his Wind in the
Willows@ (at left), published posthumously in 1940,
is as much a children's classic as his Peter Pan.
Rackham died in 1939.'
Edwin Austin
Abbey. Illustrations.
'Abbey can lay claim to being America's first great
illustrator. His work was inspirational and influential
during his life and remains so today.'
Daniel Vierge. 19th century illustrations.
The Great Hedge of
India.
A 1,500 mile hedge the British grew across India
as a customs hedge.
'As his researches progressed he found that the hedge
he thought merely a piece of eccentricity was actually
an instrument of oppression, used to collect a Salt Tax
set so high that the Indians suffered from salt
starvation.'
The Solar System. Virtual tours of the Sun and
planets, courtesy of the BBC. Some nice Flash games.
Martin Luther King: Letter from a Birmingham
Jail.
Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream.
Buddha's Discourse on the End of the World.
Buddhist Meditations.
'You gather stones from off the waste hill-side,
And therewith build a cottage, snug and warm;
But the hut falls with time, and by and by
There's naught, but just the waste hill-side again. '
Nigerian Arts.
'Nigeria-Arts.Net is the largest database of Nigerian
artists and creativity on the Internet. In these pages
you can read artists biographies, view or hear work
samples and find direct contact informaton. Browsing
these pages, you will experience the richness and
diversity of Nigeria's creative community and have
the opportunity to interact with its members ... '
The Homeless
Guy. The website of a homeless man.
Indonesian Legend of Nabi Isa.
'Stories
travel from place to place and the exchange of thought
among different nations has since time immemorial been
much more lively than was formerly assumed. We know
that the Buddhist Jataka tales, which are childhood
stories of the Buddha, traved from India to Greece
where they reappeared as Aesop's fables, and so the
story of the Bodhisattva who became Buddha was
retold in Christian countries where Bodhisat was
changed to Josaphat, under which name he was made
a saint of the Catholic Church.'
'But Christian stories also traveled into Buddhist
countries, although the traces of the influence of
Christianity were mainly obliterated just as the
name of Buddhism has disappeared in the West, leaving
only dim echoes, but we know that Nestorian
Christianity was an established religion in Tibet
and that more than one thousand years ago it was
a religion officially recognized by the Chinese
government. The Nestorian monument, one of the
oldest Christian monuments in existence, was written
in the Chinese language and recapitulates the main
tenets of Christianity, still testifying to the
pristine glory of Christianity in China. It stands
in a country where now the people and the government
are so vigorously opposed to Christianity that all
missionary efforts seem hopeless. But echoes of
Christianity have also reached the East Indian
Archipelago, and it is strange to find a story
of the prophet Jesus retold in the style of the
Buddhist Jatakas, which has reached the island
of Java not through Europeans but through natives ... '
Explore
Mars Now. Virtual tours of the red planet.
World
Poetry.
'The World Poetry project was started in an effort to
bring muse to the fingertips;
to create a site on the internet where a wide range of
poetry could be accessed. Our
vision and goals are large and encompassing. No doubt
it will take considerable time
to live up to the name. Promoting strong accessible
poetry which moves the senses and
soul without fogging the mind is our primary
motivation. Although we have started with
American poets a more global mix will be forthcoming
... '
Poetry here.
(Link fixed).
Domestic
Goddess, a.k.a.
'scribbling mobs of women'.
'A moderated E-journal, devoted to women writers,
beginning in the 19th century,
who wrote domestic fiction. '
Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe and more
-[this is good].
In
Search of Ancient Ireland.
'3 hour documentary TV series tracing the history and
the legends of ancient Ireland,
from 2000 BC - when Stone Age farmers built some of
the largest and most spectacular
Neolithic monuments in Europe. The series explores
events and stories from three millennia
of history, up to the Norman invasion of 1167AD ... '
Knowth.
'The Megalithic Passage Tombs of Newgrange, Knowth,
Dowth, Fourknocks, Loughcrew and
Tara are located in the present day County of Meath on
the east coast of Ireland. The
Boyne Valley Mounds at Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth
were built around 3200BC making them
older than Stonehenge in England and the Pyramids of
Giza in Egypt.'
'Built by Neolithic communities about 5000 years ago,
the Passage Tomb Monuments have
clear Astronomical Alignments such as the Winter
Solstice Sunrise at Newgrange and the
Equinox Sunrise at Loughcrew ... '
Prehistoric
Music: Ireland.
'Bronze Age Horns of Ireland, Scotland and England One
of the most exciting musical
discoveries of the 20th Century was the re-awakening
of the Bronze Age Horns of Ireland
Scotland and England. An ancient mystery had been
solved. '
'For hundreds of years attempts were made to play any
of the 104 horns that survive
from the Irish Bronze Age. All were met with failure
due to the large "single cavity"
mouthpiece which is a feature of the bronze horn
family ... '
Ukiyoe
from the
Sweet Briar Collection. Good online collection.
Masterful
Illusions: Japanese Prints from the Anne van Biema
Collection. Another good collection.
A Gallery Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese
Calligraphy
by
Doshu Kanayama.
'The calligraphy that exists in Japan today originated
in China, thus it may also be
called 'Chinese Calligraphy.' After reaching Japan,
this Chinese Calligraphy became a
tradition in Japanese culture. The primary goal was to
write beautifully and skillfully,
however, like any other form of art, appreciation of
beauty was also an aim.'
'Modern calligraphy in Japan is 'traditional' with its
long history, 'disciplined' with
strict hierarchism, 'prestigious' with skillful
elected members, and 'delicate' with
precious materials such as inks and papers dating back
to 15 to 20 years to give certain
effects. Unfortunately, its dissemination has been
very limited, resulting in seeing less
calligraphy than painting and sculpture in the world
of art ... '
Traditional
Arts and Crafts in Kanazawa.
Kaga Lion Head.
'Lion dances in Kaga are an unusual event which
feature performers known as "pole
wavers", who stab at the lion. Lion dances flourished
as a means of martial arts
training and lion heads were placed in each town as
guardians and became objects of
pride. Production of lion heads also flourished
because of the custom in private homes
of displaying a lion head in the tokonoma alcove to
celebrate the birth of a boy.'
Kanazawa Paper Umbrellas.
Africans
in America.
America's journey through slavery.
Excerpts
from Slave Narratives.
Marcus
Garvey.
'He was both a visionary and a manipulator, a
brilliant orator and a pompous autocrat. In
just ten years following his emigration to the United
States as a laborer in 1917, Marcus
Garvey rose to lead the largest black organization in
history, was taken to prison in
handcuffs, and was eventually deported. Marcus Garvey
is the dramatic story of the rise
and fall of an African American leader who influenced
politics and culture around the
world.'
The
Poetry of Marcus Garvey.
You
and Me.
Keep
Cool.
The
Morning. Poem.
How My Mother-in-Law Instructed Me in Slaughter.
Poem.
Irish
Coinage.
A
Crescent Nebula
Star Field.
Cocoon
of a New White
Dwarf.
The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real.
The
Brown
Tree Snake on Guam.
'How the arrival of one invasive species damaged the
ecology, commerce, electrical
systems, and human health on Guam: A comprehensive
information source.'
Annette Kellerman.
'Mother of synchronized swimming, and creator of the
one-piece bathing suit.'
Ladies' One Piece Bathing Suit, Circa 1922.
Art Featuring Larger Models.
Rubens, Renoir,
Matisse, Diego Rivera, Titian, Picasso, etc.
Miniature
Libraries. Via
Booklab II.
Photos of Earth from the Air. Thanks,
Dinesh.
link
1st July
Fine Art of
Stephen Dubov.
'For 12 years, artist Stephen Dubov lived within
boundaries of razor wire and a Life Without
Possibility of Parole sentence--convicted, in 1988,
of cocaine possession. In May 2000, that sentence
was struck down and a new term of thirty years was
imposed.'
'Throughout incarceration, Dubov has held his center
and created fine art. This web site was initiated
and is maintained by Friends of Stephen Dubov so that
we may share with you his exceptional sculpture,
drawing, and writing.'
The Pichs Collection. Exploring Cuba's history through
postal stamps.
Devi: The Great Goddess.
'The Great Goddess, known in India as Devi (literally
"goddess"), has many guises. She is "Ma" the gentle
and approachable mother. As Jaganmata, or Mother of
the universe, she assumes cosmic proportions,
destroying evil and addressing herself to the
creation and dissolution of the worlds. She is
worshiped by thousands of names that often reflect
local customs and legends. She is one and she is
many. She is celebrated in songs and poems ... '
Puja: Expressions of Hindu Devotion.
Memento Mori: The War Drawings of Jack Nichols.
Canadian war artist.
Lost Visions, Forgotton Dreams: Life and Art of an
Ancient Arctic People.
'For three thousand years before the Inuit arrived in
Arctic Canada, the region was occupied by a people of
remarkable accomplishment. Known to archaeologists as
the Palaeo-Eskimos, they developed the techniques that
first allowed humans to live successfully in the
coldest and bleakest part of the habitable world.
They also produced a legacy of carving that is unique,
delightful and intriguing. Living beyond the range of
known human adaptations, this ancient society created
objects of such enduring beauty that they give
pleasure to peoples as alien as ourselves. '
Threads of the Land: Clothing Traditions from Three
Indigenous Cultures. Native Canadian.
Historic Ivories at the Canadian Museum of
Civilization.
Inuit art.
Painted Shop
Signs in Paris, 1900.
Graphic City: Sao Paulo.
John Heartfield: One Man's War Against Hitler.
An amazing tale, and fab anti-Nazi photomontages.
Thanks to
Monkey Media
Report.
A synopsis of Heartfield's life, with links
to his work, also at
Monkey Media Report.
Marionettes. Via
MeFi.
Hendrick Goltzius.
Via
iconomy,
mysterium.
Dickens' London Map.
Via
iconomy.
Marcus Bloch's Natural History of Fish.
Via
Neurastenia.
Pony Express Route.
Via
iconomy.
Peapod Design.
Via
Neurastenia.
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia.
Thanks to
Monkey Media
Report.
Without Sanctuary: Photographs and Postcards of
Lynching in America.
'Searching through America's past for the last 25 years, collector
James Allen uncovered an extraordinary visual legacy: photographs
and postcards taken as souvenirs at lynchings throughout America.
With essays by Hilton Als, Leon Litwack, Congressman John Lewis
and James Allen, these photographs have been published as a book
– "Without Sanctuary" by Twin Palms Publishers . Please be aware
before entering the site that much of the material is very disturbing. '
Via
Fiendish Is the Word.
Voyage, Voyage.
'In 1953 Roy Jenkin, a 21 year-old student from Exeter, cycled
around France, Switzerland and Germany with his schoolfriend
Gordon Newbery. They covered 2,286 miles, slept in potting sheds,
hay barns, and even a railway marshalling yard, and the whole trip cost
them £24 15s. His diary and this website, describes the long-gone
Europe of horse carts, cobbles and old fashioned hospitality, a
continent which was still recovering from six years of war ... '
Via
MeFi.
Popular Mechanics Covers Gallery.
Via
Sugar &
Spicy.
Flamerite. Via
Sugar &
Spicy.
Allison Lefcort. Pop art portraits.
Via
Fiendish Is the Word.
Tel Aviv Pride Parade 2003. Gallery.
Via
Sugar &
Spicy.
Elvis Paintings 2002.
Via
Sugar &
Spicy.
The Group of Seven. Canadian artists.
Group of Seven gallery.
Via
MeFi.
Night Firework Photos.
Via
MeFi.
Canadian Social Progress Gallery.
'Social progress is the weight of laws designed to
alleviate human suffering. Canada, while slow to
start passing national legislation in this regard,
rapidly addressed its social needs from the 1940s
onwards ... '
US Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection,
'a series of more than 2,200 photographs of the Gary
Works steel mill and the corporate town of Gary,
Indiana held by the Calumet Regional Archives at
Indiana University Northwest. In images of compelling
diversity, historians and the general public can view
all aspects of this planned industrial community: the
steel mill, the city, and the citizens who lived and
worked there.'
Arts of the Silk Road. Superb.
Cell Door.
Magazine about prison life.
Prison Friends.
Earliest Memories.
Eco-Artware. Arts and crafts from natural and
reused materials.
'Earth-friendly designs'.
Asian Traditions in Clay.
'From a seven-thousand-year-old Iranian vessel to
animal-shaped pots from the Khmer Empire of Southeast
Asia to colorful, exuberant tiles and serving ware
from the Islamic world, the objects that appear in
this exhibition are superb examples of the potter's
craft. Representing three major yet very different
ceramic traditions in Asia, they belong to three
groups of ceramics generously given to the Arthur M.
Sackler Gallery by Osborne and Gratia Hauge and
Victor and Takako Hauge. In the course of many years
of residence and travel abroad, the two brothers and
their wives were able to pursue their interest in
the arts-both ancient and contemporary-of Asia ... '
Gallery of Aurorae.
Erotic Print
Society. Not suitable for work.
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