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El nacimiento de Moises
Frida Kahlo
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This clay bust from the Moche culture (~250 BCE to 750 CE), which occupied multiple river valleys in Ecuador and Peru. I was stunned when I realized how old this bust was; it looks like modern art! Which says something about both, I think.
Jan Steen, Self Portrait with a Lute, c. 1655
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Historical Nonfiction: Sometimes, knowing history is depressing. But it must be passed on, or...
Sometimes, knowing history is depressing. But it must be passed on, or it will be repeated. These are some known examples of wartime military conflicts, mutinies, and riots over racial tensions.
- 1917 Camp Logan, Houston, Texas: mutiny by 156 soldiers of the all-black 24th US Infantry’s 3rd…
Constantin Brancusi, Self Portrait in Studio, 1923
From the Metropolitan Museum:
The Rumanian artist Constantin Brancusi took up the camera as early as 1905 to interpret and present his sculptures as he alone saw them. His technique was not entirely professional, but his photographs are highly imaginative and are now recognized as characteristic examples of his visionary genius. The bizarre, spectral effect of this studio view is created by harsh light emanating from a floor fixture hidden in the foreground and from a gas jet seen in the upper right, peeking out from behind two of Brancusi’s completed works, Eve (oak, 1921) and Golden Bird (bronze, stone, 1919-22). Surrounded by pedestals and works in progress, Brancusi brandishes a heavy stone hammer and emerges from the darkness-a reborn Prometheus eager to challenge modern gods. Because the exact authorship of the photograph remains uncertain, the wall label also cites Man Ray as a possible picturemaker. Brancusi’s American friend taught the sculptor rudimentary photography and helped build his studio darkroom.
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Gotta Love U.S.
Civil Society – The realm of organized social life that is voluntary, self-generating, (largely) self-supporting, autonomous from the state, and bound by a legal order or set of shared rules.
San Francisco Mime Troupe comes to Seattle in 1969.
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This chart is survival rates on the Titanic, by how much a passenger paid, their gender, and their class.
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