Our top pick of those whose works on 1st January 2019 enter the public domain in many countries around the world, including Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, Sergei Eisenstein and Martin Luther King Jr.
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Our top pick of those whose works on 1st January 2019 enter the public domain in many countries around the world, including Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, Sergei Eisenstein and Martin Luther King Jr.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/class-of-2019
Born of the temperance movement, this poem dramatises the ills of drinking schnapps, through one man’s bloody battle with thousands of intoxicated demons.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/schneider-von-groot-s-christmas-dream-1885
In the footsteps of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Philipp Moritz — from the peace of Lake Biel to the rugged Peaks — Seán Williams considers the connection between walking and writing.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/rambling-reflections-on-summers-in-switzerland-and-sheffield
Hokusai's five ghoulish prints for the series Hyaku Monogatari [One Hundred Ghost Stories].
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hokusai-s-ghost-stories-ca-1830
James Nasymth's images of intricate models of the lunar surface.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/photographs-of-models-of-the-moon-1874
Proto science fiction fantasy romance of an English castaway and a remote race of flying humans.
Meiji era copies (ca. 1900) of original designs by Itō Jakuchū (1716–1800), a Japanese painter of the mid-Edo period notable for his striking modern aesthetic.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/polychrome-woodblocks-of-ito-jakuchu-birds
Book featuring a hundred real or real-ish tales of ingenious, loyal or otherwise extraordinary animals.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/anecdotes-of-animals-1905
Benjamin Franklin, magnetic trees, and erotically-charged séances — Urte Laukaityte on how a craze for sessions of "animal magnetism" in late 18th-century Paris led to the randomised placebo-controlled and double-blind clinical trials we know and love today.
Poems from the Victorian era and before which anticipated 21st-century textspeak.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/nineteenth-century-textspeak