New T-Shirts (Now in 100% Organic Cotton) and New Mugs in Our Shop! — The Public Domain Review
The Public Domain Review is registered in the UK as a Community Interest Company (#11386184), a category of company which exists primarily to benefit a community or with a view…
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Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967)
A past vision of the future. Domestic utopia? Or sanitised hell? Source link
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Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting — The Public Domain Review
Both quasi-encyclopedic and essentially aesthetic, early collector’s cabinets maintained no real line between the natural and the unnatural, the secular and the religious. Insofar as an organizing principle existed, it…
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“Quaint Dessert Dishes” in *American Homes and Gardens* (1911) — The Public Domain Review
Although “Quaint Dessert Dishes” is among several articles that are explicitly directed at a female reader, American Homes and Gardens’ writers and readers were mostly male. At the turn of…
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Henri Rivière’s *Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower* (1888–1902) — The Public Domain Review
Henri Rivière (1864–1951), a Paris-born artist who spent his time between the French capital and the coast of Brittany, shared this enthusiasm, but was unique among his peers in that…
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The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser!
Our End-of-Year Fundraiser is launched, and the new postcards theme will be Attention. Source link
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Luke Howard’s *Essay on the Modification of Clouds* (1865) — The Public Domain Review
At first light, the project of classifying the clouds might seem a bit uninspired, if useful. Not so for Luke Howard (1772–1864), industrial chemist by trade and amateur meteorologist by…
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Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237)
Illustrations of Abū Zayd and his adventures in double meaning. Source link
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Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s)
Still lifes by the artist who seemed to bridge expressionism with the baroque. Source link
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A Thousand and One Nights in Italy: The Moorish Fantasias of Cesare Mattei and Ferdinando Panciatichi — The Public Domain Review
As Carlo Menicatti rightly observes, Panciatichi never visited the East nor even Spain or Portugal, which are home to Europe’s Moorish substrate. His travels centred largely around France, Belgium, Germany,…
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