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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Art and the World's First Novel
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A portrait of Murakasi Shikibu by Tosa Mitsuoki, painted in Yamato-e, the classical Japanese style, 12th century. What is generally ack...
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
The Golden Age of Illustration - Maxfield Parrish
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Dinky Bird , 1904, from Eugene Field's Poems of Childhood . When I was 19, a friend gave me a poster of the above work by Maxfield P...
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Thursday, February 2, 2012
Borobudur: The Architecture of Buddhist Cosmology
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Image courtesy of UNESCO (see link below). Borobudur is a temple located in central Java. It is a shrine to the Buddha, and a pilgrimag...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary
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The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, illustration from Lee, H., 1887. The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: a Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant, to W...
Monday, January 30, 2012
Cheers to Bravo!
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Study of Tamayo's Hands ; 1931; silver gelatin print. I love black and white photography. Without the dimension of color I can rea...
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