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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
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6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack
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Three years late, but historians are always late
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert...
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“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert Mallet-Stevens In 1924, French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) published La Gazette Des 7 Arts magazine and founded the Club des amis du...
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
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“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is” – Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 –...
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Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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Global Inequality...
Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
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The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
6 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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Classical Wisdom
Philosophy and Children
Event: THIS Saturday
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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Classical Wisdom
Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
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“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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Classical Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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Trying to Understand...
No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
a year ago
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
a month ago
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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Classical Wisdom
Women of Ancient Rome
The First Roman Empress and More...
10 months ago
The First Roman Empress and More...
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
11 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
2 months ago
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
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Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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The Prostitutes’ Gaze: The Integrity of Mid-Century Sex Workers (NSFW)
“I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures...
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“I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures in his native Belgium. From 1935 to 1975, he produced 40,000 negatives, almost as many contact sheets and a number of prints. His focus was on artist, chiefly Surrealists – René...
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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JamesHoare
Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
7 months ago
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
a year ago
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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Trying to Understand...
Getting Used To Being Weak.
It's worse than you probably imagine.
a year ago
It's worse than you probably imagine.
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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Classical Wisdom
Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
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What is needed to stop violent cycles?
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
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The Original Femme Fatales?
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The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
2 months ago
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
7 months ago
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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African History...
a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
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“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
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How French Was Medieval England?
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
a year ago
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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Trying to Understand...
The Threat of Back to Normal
Global power has always been distributed.
a year ago
Global power has always been distributed.
African History...
Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
a year ago
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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Trying to Understand...
A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
a year ago
They are quite serious, actually.
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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