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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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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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‘A Fantasy Documentary’: Derek Jarman’s Punk Rock Movie ‘Jubilee’

I was first introduced to Derek Jarman through a porn mag. It was one of the few my older brother hid in a Subbuteo box in the front bedroom cupboard. ...

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Hannah Höch, The Artist Who Wanted ‘to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it’

Hannah Höch was a woman and she knew how to change the world. But few of the Dadaists were listening ...

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Satirical Illustrations From The Comic Natural History of the Human Race – 1851

A lively collection of lithographs lampooning men and women of the gilded age ...

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Too pinko for Dan or How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove

Kubrick had optioned Peter George’s book Red Alert and was working on a screenplay with George when he realised the impossibility of making a melodrama out such an horrific subject and thought the only rational response was to make “a nightmare comedy." ...

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