Vinciane

Nina Leen.

Captain W.W. Hooper & Surgeon G. Western, ‘A Sikh’, 1860-70. Albumen print. Museum no. 0932:5 from V&A

Great portfolio from fresh graduate Owen Gent on Tumblr.

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Parler court peut faire penser long?

Elias Canetti, The Secret Heart of the Clock

Hieronymus Bosch, Detail from Cutting the Stone, 1494-1516 (via imagediver)

Vicky Slater (via mpdrolet)

Reading-stand ( via nevver)

Jan Lauschmann, Castle Staircase, 1927 (via undr)

Pop culture references abound in the new teaser trailer for The LEGO Movie directed by the creative team of Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Clone High TV series, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, 21 Jump Street). Warner Bros. will release the film in the U.S. on February 7, 2014. The highlight in this teaser is the animation, which has the chunky staccato rhythms one might expect of LEGOs animated in stop motion though it is actually achieved through computer animation.

Synonyms for home: heimat, a roof, a memory that once was.

[Image:  © Rachel Phillips]

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Photo by Toni Frissell

1947

Pittsburgh, photo by W. Eugene Smith, 50’s.

Covers and endpapers from a series of Japanese textbooks, 小学生全集 ("Complete Works for Elementary School Students") via the National Diet Library 1929 (cover used for both "Little Lord Fauntleroy" and "Marshal Togo and General Nogi") I stumbled upon this book series while rooting around again in the massive NDL. I featured a handful of these covers back in 2009 in some posts of Japanese book covers, though at the time I knew nothing about them (not that I know much more now). I also featured Takeo Takei's illustrations for the H. C. Andersen volume. I think the series ran to 80+ books—the NDL has digitized 37 volumes published between 1927 and 1929. The books covered many topics—Western classics, Japanese history, fairy tales, science, religion—as you'll see from the rough Google translations given below each image. Many volumes were edited, translated, or written by Kan Kikuchi (菊池 寛). It's hard to determine the illustrators and designers responsible for most of these. (One problem is that often different artists are responsible for the covers and interior illustrations, but the NDL usually catalogs only the interior illustrator. Another is that I don't read Japanese!) If you like this post, don't miss the "Takeo Takei" filter. 1929, "Story of Astronomy and Minerals" 1928, illustration by Seiko for The Blue Bird 1927, Alice in Wonderland (appears to have been translated by the mighty Akutagawa) 1927, "Interesting Library" 1928, "Physical Chemistry," illustration signed "BIN" 1928, "Children's Industrial Story" 1928, "Story of Insects," illus. signed "SA" 1927, "Meiji Emperor" 1927, "Robinson Crusoe" 1928, "Story of an Airplane," illus. signed "Sen" 1928, "Religious Fairy Tale Collection" 1929, "Animal Botany for Children" 1929, "Engineering for Children" 1929, "To the mountain to the sea" 1928, "Japanese Tale of Heroism" 1929, "Boy's Encyclopedia" 1929, "Foreign History" 1929, "Story of the Army and Land Battles" 1928, "Taiheiki Story" 1928, "Chushingura Story, Soga Story" 1929, "Way to the World" 1929, endpapers, "Story of Astronomy and Minerals" 1928, endpapers, "Chushingura Story, Soga Story" 1928, endpapers, "Story of an Airplane" 1928, endpapers, "Physical Chemistry" 1928, endpapers, "Story of Insects" 1928, endpapers, "Children's Physiology and Hygiene" 1929, endpapers, "Way to the World" 1929, title page, "Story of Astronomy and Minerals" 1928, title page, "Story of Insects" 1928, cover by Takeo Takei I've featured this before but NOW I KNOW IT'S FOR THE JUNGLE BOOK! Previous posts on Japan This post first appeared on , June 18, 2013 on 50 Watts

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The Vancouver School of Art, 1964

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“Letter and drawing from Mary Anning announcing the discovery of a fossil animal now known as Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus, 26 December 1823”

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Ant Pushing A Water Droplet

By Rakesh Rocky

A retrospective on the life and work of Le Corbusier opens today at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. This selection of drawings and paintings by the architect documents the various stages of his career, as presented in the exhibition. (more...)

The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, by Rudolf Erich Raspe [and others]; illustrated by Alfred Crowquill. London: Trubner & Co., 1859. (via johnglassie)

ANA, Paris. Photo by Michelangelo Durazzo. 

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Digital illustration of the 50 state birds, ordered by their state’s admittance into the Union.

18” x 24”

Heavy duty 14 pt. stock

Dull UV coating

Open edition, and each one is signed.

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Robert Doisneau, The fisherman, Paris, 1951,  (via mimbeau)

E.G. Lutz, What to draw and how to draw it, 1913

Illustrations from the 1930s Chinese magazine Modern Sketch Modern Sketch issue #9 Chen Juanyin, “China’s Characters Who Count” (#1, Chiang Kai-shek...) For the full background on this remarkable publication read John A Crespi's essay "China's Modern Sketch: The Golden Era of Cartoon Art, 1934-1937" at MIT Visualizing Cultures. Every issue can be seen in high resolution at Colgate Digital Collections -- they made the scans. From MIT Visualizing Cultures: Modern Sketch stands out among the nearly 20 illustrated humor and satire magazines that proliferated in mid-1930s Shanghai. One can point to the remarkable openness and eclecticism of its content, and its inclusion of work by young artists who went on to become leaders in China’s 20th-century cultural establishment. Most intriguing, however, is the kaleidoscopic window onto the past that Modern Sketch provides. Without doubt the illustrations populating its pages lend blunt visual force to the major crises and contradictions that define China’s 20th century as a quintessentially modern era. I included artist's names and translations when possible. Hu Kao, “Swimsuits of 1934” (issue 7, July 1934)Crespi: "Designed to define Modern Sketch in the eyes of readers, the magazine’s full-color front covers offer a convenient point of entry into its diverse subjects and styles. What strikes the viewer’s eye now, as it surely did in the 1930s, is a consistent theme of eroticism. Nude or semi-nude figures were undoubtedly displayed to titillate the potential buyer. Yet during the first decades of the Republican period nudity could also project positive symbolic values, such as freedom, liberation, and physical health—all tropes aimed at counteracting representations of China as the tradition-bound, feeble, 'Sick Man of Asia.'" Sheng Gongmu (Te Wei), “The Borderlands”Crespi: "Many streams of artistic influence fed the imagery of Modern Sketch. Where representations of the 'modern girl' and 'modern boy' drew mainly from stylish American jazz-age magazine illustration, other cartoonists picked and chose from among modern-art movements like cubism, surrealism, fauvism, and dada. Few rules applied to the young, almost totally uninstitutionalized art of Chinese cartooning, and the results could be fascinatingly grotesque." Ye Qianyu, “Supply Exceeds Demand, Demand Exceeds Supply” Some of these can be viewed larger by clicking: Fullscreen Yan Zhexi, “Nothing of the Sort!” Weng Xingqing, “A World of Lines” Shang Ban Yu, “Bacteria from the ‘Sick Man of Asia’ at 2000x Magnification” “Lineup of the World’s Dictators: Saint Fascista and His Disciples”Crespi: "...Modern Sketch did much more than react to big national and global events. Due to the vision of its editor, Lu Shaofei, the collective pictorial imagination of Modern Sketch probed all corners of the modern era, beyond and below the big stories of politics, economics, Shanghai, and even China." Hu Kao, “The Perfect Life of Leisure!” (clockwise from top left) — Ain’t no time for learning in the gusty old fall, Woo woo...chee chee...a shoo shoo shoo... — Ain’t no time for books in the warm and breezy spring, Pa pa...doo doo...a go go go — Ain’t no time for homework in the scorching summer, Wah wah...lah lah...a yeah yeah yeah — Ain’t no time to study on those chilly winter nights, Dah dah...bom bom...a lah lah lah... Huang Weiqiang, “The Internationalized Hong Kong Meat Market” Chinese opera character drawn by a child (Chen Keyan) for this 1935 cover cover by Huang Yao featuring his signature character Crespi: "Zhang Guangyu’s cheerful January 1935 contribution commemorated the Republican government’s Year of Children..." Pang Xunqin, “Aquatic Life” "World Peace News Service: 'Portrait of the Chief of the Economic Survey Team, Kodama Kenji, during His Visit to China'” Chen Paixi, “Official Malfeasance among the Cantonese Gentry” “Compassion for the World” [The Pope:] The Lord Shall Provide Ye Qianyu, “The Second-class Rail Carriage” Many of the illustrations have a strong Grosz influence Ye Qianyu, cover of the second issue Yu Yongpeng, “Competing Vehicles” Yu Yongpeng, “Repairing a Rich Man’s Head” Instructions: The face is painted green to facilitate malingering. The scalp is lubricated to slip out of tight situations. The eyes are different colors for sizing up different sorts of characters. The ears are nailed shut to help shirk responsibility. The teeth are sharp and the tongue coated with honey as an aid to persuasion. But little does the rich man know how the small-timers leech off of him! Cover of the first issueCrespi: "Equal parts comic and gallant, this strange horseman heralded the arrival of the longest running and most influential humor and satire magazine in China during the first half of the 20th century: Shidai manhua, or by its English name, Modern Sketch. Published monthly for 39 issues from 1934 through June 1937, Modern Sketch was recognized then, and still is now, as the centerpiece of China’s golden era of cartoon art." A sequel to this post is in the works. See all posts tagged "China"

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but does it float

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Tammam Azzam, Freedom graffiti

‘Kiss by Klimt’ painted on the remains of a building hit by bombs and bullets.

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