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August 2005
08/30/2005
The Contrarian of a Generation, Revisited
This is the NY Times review of Martin Scorsese's No Direction Home
documentary and soundtrack on Bob Dylan coming up in September.
Dylan in 1963
Fernanda Cohen
(Bibi's)
Honor Thy Shoes
UFOPOP...Flying Saucers
In Popular Culture
(PCL)
Zenda From Outer Space (1964)
08/29/2005
Frida Kahlo At
The Tate Modern Museum
This is a great online exhibit of the ever enchanting Frida Kahlo.
Frida Kahlo in 1926
Portrait of Alicia Galant (1927)
Charles Dwyer
This guy is good, real good. There are a few more scans of his work
here.
Christine
Wolfgang's Vault
This site has great collection rock and roll ephemera, posters, postcards,
etc.
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana
and Pearl Jam Poster (1991)
Lenny Bruce and
The Mothers of Invention Postcard (1966)
Yoshitoshi
Excellent Ukiyoe!
Looking Cool (1888)
Jim Flora Gallery (Neurastenia)
Louis Armstrong's Hot 5
Steve Taylor
I searched on Google. but I could not find a larger collection of his work.
Archæoligirl — Science Hero #2
Vintage Indian
Advertisements (Plep)
Picture Postcard
North American Mammals (Scout)
Click on the map to find the mammals in your state.
Mephitis mephitis (Striped skunk)
08/23/2005
The Allure of Japanese Art
This art Flash is from this Wapo's review
of the same name. "Two new books 'Japonisme' and 'The Origins of
L'Art Nouveau' examine how van Gogh, Manet, Whislter and art dealer
Siegfried Bing were seduced by Japanese art."
Portrait of Pere Tanguy by Vincent van Gogh
08/22/2005
Matthew Clay-Robison
There is a real to not making social/political art preachy. I'm still
cracking up over the
Bible Belt Bachelor.
The Religious Right Is Neither (2003)
Canadian War Posters
There are a few gems in the
recruiting poster section.
Madeleine de Verchères
WWII Recruiting Poster
In Prison
I loved the postcard below and the translated poem from
A Garment Worker's
Legacy: The Joe Fishtein Collection of Yiddish Poetry.
"Postcard depicting a defiant young woman in prison. She may represent women
who were prominent in revolutionary movements at the beginning of the 20th
century, such as Rosa Luxemburg and Vera Figner."
In Prison
Radioactive Future
There is a lot interesting artwork on this site. The silkscreen below
is by Goatskull.
WMDS
Strictly Limited Serigraphs
Season 4 by
Shloma Katz
La-Gendarme by
David Schneuer
Gallery of Ukiyoe Prints
A collection from a karate school.
Morokoshi by Koishikawatei Eiri
Tim McCormick Art
"Soon They'll See"
Katie Nice
Squirt
08/15/2005
George Barbier
Un Peu... (1913)
The
Pauline Johnson Archive
"Emily Pauline Johnson was one of Canada's most popular and successful
entertainers at the turn-of-the-century. The daughter of a Mohawk
Native-Canadian father and an English mother, Pauline Johnson used the
Mohawk name 'Tekahionwake'."
Pauline Johnson
The Tobacco and Salt Museum
Japanese Tobacco Ad/Poster
John "The
Duke" Wayne Posters
Blue Steel With Gabby Hayes (1934)
Mimi Kersting (Neurastenia)
Sophisticats Poster
Night Vision: Photographs of William Gedney and Lynn Saville
William Gedney's photographs are almost eerie in their remarkable
simplicity. It's like you have been suddenly teleported to the 1960s.
Butte, MT (1966)
Fulanita
Choco Hotties
Stephen Hall
Desire
My Best Shot
LA Times readers share their best vacation photos.
Positano, Italy - Wow!
08/10/2005
Ling Lung
Magazine
(Bibi's box)
"Ling Lung Women’s Magazine was published in the 1930s in Shanghai, China at
a time when women’s role in society, at least in that sophisticated and
foreign-influenced metropolis, was in rapid transition."
Ling Lung Magazine Issue #1 (1931)
08/08/2005
Kitagawa Utamaro
56 original prints by the Japanese master painter and woodcut designer
Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806)
Three Beauties (1793)
Jacob Galm
Fun Fun Fun
Mystery of Marilyn: Her Own Words?
This is a LA Times special on the the anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's death.
It includes photos and old newspaper headlines about her.
Marilyn in 1952
The Tibetan &
Himalayan Digital Library
Tibetan Girls
The Adventures of Art Lad
TIG-A-SAUR-ONS!
Audrey Kawasaki (MF)
Audrey is very talented artist, as the sample below clear shows. There is
some nudity, but this is pretty tame stuff.
Rabbit
Paint By Numbers
A Smithsonian exhibit on the 50s paint by numbers phenomenon. You see
a lot of these 'paintings' at bad yard sales. Is that an oxymoron?
Paint-by-Number Poster
08/04/2005
All Along The Watchtower (MC)
Bob Dylan's lyrics illustrated.
There must be some kind of way autta here!
08/02/2005
Catherine Deneuve
In Luis Bunuel's Belle De Jour (1967)
08/01/2005
Publications
by Takejiro Hasegawa
Kobunsha's Japanese Fairy Tales (scroll down) is a great collection
of illustrated woodblock print books by Takejiro Hasegawa. You can
still read the stories from the scans of these wonderful books. Also,
check out the lithographs, etc.
from the
Perry Expedition on the same site.
Back Cover of Kohana San (1892)
Aya Takano
I had blogged
Aya's
work before, and I was reminded of her in the "The Arts of Japan's
Exploding Subculture" article below. Then, I found all these cool
watercolor paintings by her!
A cluster of firework, that girl, (2003)
Hakan Photography
There are lot's of pictures of pretty, mostly Asian, woman on this site
(some nudity).
Tanya Valiente
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le
Brun
"Vigée Le Brun (1755-1845) was one of the most in demand portrait artists of
her time. She completed over 900 paintings including 700 portraits. This
included many self portraits, 30 portraits of her friend Marie Antoinette
and 67 portraits while living in Russia for six years."
Mother and Daughter
Jaime Zollars (Sugar N' Spicy)
The Three C's
Children's Book Illustrations
(E-Mark)
Dreamer of Dreams
Shino
(Bibi's box)
Chicken: Seventeen Magazine
The Arts
of Japan’s Exploding Subculture (Plep)
Butcher Shop by Mahomi Kunikata
July 2005
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