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This Little Book Contains Every Reason Why Women Should Not Vote – 1917

A humorous suffragist pamphlet in which all of the inside pages are blank ...

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Ridiculous Hair – 18th Century Skyscrapers

In the 18th Century hair got taller... and taller... and taller... ...

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The Masochists – A 1960 Study In Extreme Pain

In 1960, the brilliant Roland Topor illustrated a world of self-inflicted torture ...

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101 Best Picture Comparisons From Lilliput or Chamberlain and the Beautiful Llama – satire from 1940

In the 1930s a Prime Minister who looked like a llama was part of a new satirical magazine's passion for the power of telling stories through photographs ...

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Ukraine-born American Artist Boris Artzybasheff’s Anti-Nazi Illustrations

Boris Artzybasheff (25 May 1899 – 16 July 1965) created many of these abstract anti-Axis illustrations for America's Wickwire Spencer Steel Company (1901 - 1963) in World War 2. ...

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The English Dance of Death: Thomas Rowlandson’s Scathing Memento Mori 1814-1816

I love dispatch I strike at once The wit, the wise, the fool, the dunce; ...

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The Kat of Kazan : How Russian Lubki Inspired the Commoners and Lampooned the Tsar

A Lubok praised god, monstered the enemy and hailed Russian superiority ...

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‘The Rake’s Progress’ and William Hogarth’s Six Points Essential to Good Art

Brit Art didn't start in the 1990s with Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, and all that. It really began in the 1700s with William Hogarth, who was the Daddy of them all. ...

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Kawanabe Kyôsai – The Big Tail : Penis Contests, Riotous Sex And Japanese Satire (NSFW)

Kawanabe Kyôsai was Japanese art's enfant terrible ...

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Kawanabe Kyōsai’s Pictures of One Hundred Demons – 1890

Created by Japanese artist, satirist and political caricaturist Kawanabe Kyōsai (May 18, 1831 – April ...

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Farting Drums, Sex Gods And The Namazu Catfish Quakes Censored In Edo Japan

Banned in Japan: when giant catfish shook the country ...

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We Do Lockdown – Miriam Elia’s Brilliant 1950s Spoof Mocks Covid-19

So grab your face mask and satchel and join Mummy, John and Susan as they venture out in this fearful new world. ...

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