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Pavel Tchelitchew : Psychedelic Skulls, Spiritual Heads & Interior Landscapes

Pavel Tchelitchew : Psychedelic Skulls, Spiritual Heads & Interior Landscapes

Pavel Tchelitchew (1898, Moscow - 1957, Rome) was a set designer, costume designer, one-time ballerina and artist who reduced the material to the spiritual and then injected it with divine energy. ...
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Buy Prints 31 Visions of Hell, Satan, Demons And Cabbalistic Signs From A 1775 Compendium Of Horrors

31 Visions of Hell, Satan, Demons And Cabbalistic Signs From A 1775 Compendium Of Horrors

Visions of Hell, Satan and Demons according to the Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros, 1775 ...
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Buy Prints Calaveras: José Posada’s Skeletons Celebrate Life, Mock The Elite And Hail Mexico’s Day Of the Dead (1880 – 1913)

Calaveras: José Posada’s Skeletons Celebrate Life, Mock The Elite And Hail Mexico’s Day Of the Dead (1880 – 1913)

Mexican illustrator José Guadalupe Posada gave us calaveras, representations of the human skeleton seen in Mexico's Day of the Dead ...
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Life In Tallahassee, Florida in The 1950s – Black, White and Red All Over

Life In Tallahassee, Florida in The 1950s – Black, White and Red All Over

Benjamin L. 'Red' Kerce's photographic record of a Florida city show us a city in turmoil ...
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Vintage Ventriloquists And Their Dummy Pals

Vintage Ventriloquists And Their Dummy Pals

vintage snapshots, publicity photos and actual ventriloquist dummies from the collection of Jim Linderman ...
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Buy Prints Gustave Doré Illustrations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – 1877

Gustave Doré Illustrations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – 1877

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the ...
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s Brilliant Reply To Nazis in 1930s Germany – ‘I Regret I Am No Gifted Jew’

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Brilliant Reply To Nazis in 1930s Germany – ‘I Regret I Am No Gifted Jew’

In 1938 German publishers wanted to translate J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit into German. The author's reply is damning ...
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How Medieval Artists Saw Elephants: Claws, Hooves, Trunks Like Trumpets, and Castles on Their Backs

How Medieval Artists Saw Elephants: Claws, Hooves, Trunks Like Trumpets, and Castles on Their Backs

The artists had apparently never seen elephants, but they featured prominently in bestiaries ...
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Aubrey Beardsley’s Illustrations for Oscar Wilde’s ‘Salome’

Aubrey Beardsley’s Illustrations for Oscar Wilde’s ‘Salome’

Aubrey Beardsley's artistic career began with schoolboy doodles in the margins of text books and ended in near poverty drawing erotica for private collectors. ...
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Sleeping With the Devil – Medieval Illuminations of Demonic Sex

Sleeping With the Devil – Medieval Illuminations of Demonic Sex

A weird and wonderful collection of bedroom hijinks with creatures from Hell ...
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Extraordinary Portraits of Bedouins By The American Colony Photo Department in 1898

Extraordinary Portraits of Bedouins By The American Colony Photo Department in 1898

At the very end of the 19th century the American Colony Photo Department, (later the Matson Photo Service), took these pictures of Bedouins in Egypt, the Sinai, Palestine and Jerusalem. ...
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Hilma af Klint’s Cosmic Art Of The Invisible

Hilma af Klint’s Cosmic Art Of The Invisible

“I had no idea what they were supposed to depict… I worked swiftly and surely, without changing a single brush stroke.” ...
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