Francis Picabia (French,1879 - 1953)
Pavonia, 1929
Ancient Maya stucco portrait head, bearing the headband of the maize deity. Artist unknown; ca. 550-850 CE (Late Classic). Now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.
Nihilism's fine, but belief in the irrepressible spirit of human freedom and solidarity is a lot more fun.
Hideka @ Issey Miyake Fall/Winter, 1984 Ready-to-Wear
It genuinely bemuses me that the historical fluidity of truth and self, a point old Heraclitus got in the 6th century BC, still either eludes or terrifies people.
Concentration before shooting the arrow, 1932 - by Friedrich Seidenstücker (1882 - 1966), German
It is undoubtedly the task of our age to move toward an affirmation that is entirely other. A difficult task, essentially risky. It is to this task that communism recalls us with a rigor that it itself often shirks, and it is also to this task that ‘artistic experience’ recalls us in the realm that is proper to it. A remarkable coincidence.
Maurice Blanchot, Friendship (1997)
Document Box (Ryōshibako) with Hydrangeas and Butterflies, by Nagata Yūji, early 18th century
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I didn't realise until recently that Taylor Swift was actually real. I always assumed they were just a lame meme constructed by pale Americans, like Supernatural or John Calvin.
October 18, 1977 | Gerhard Richter | 1988 | From a series of fifteen paintings based on photographs of moments in the lives and deaths of four members of the Red Army Faction, a West German revolutionary group
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“El espíritu de la colmena” (1973) by Víctor Erice