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Long before Rauchenberg, Cage, or Malevich, Allais anticipated many of the innovations and experiments that would occupy 20th-century artists.
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An attempt to parallel every possible case of amputation, allowing individuals to find a case identical to their own.
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At once a reference manual to inspire artists and artisans, and a series of proto-modernist photographic montages anticipating the work of Joseph Cornell.
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Why do helical seashells resemble spiralling galaxies and the human heart? Kevin Dann leads us into the gyre of James Bell Pettigrew’s Design in Nature (1908), a provocative and forgotten exploration of the world’s archetypal whorl.
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In this affecting photo-essay, Federica Soletta invites us to sit with her awhile on the American porch.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/porch-memories
Transcending the earthly concerns of betting and regal motifs, this pack of cards focuses exclusively on the heavens.
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Millican's memoir of travels and exploits in the budding flower industry.
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What can visual art teach us about scent, stench, and the mysterious substance known as ambergris? Lizzie Marx follows a “whale-trail” across history to discover the olfactory paradoxes of the Dutch Golden Age.
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American-born Copley made a splash at London’s Royal Academy with this depiction of Brook Watson’s dramatic rescue from Havana harbour in 1749.
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These complex geometrical figures and perspective drawings are preserved in a little-known manuscript at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel
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