Monthly Archives: January 2007

Betcha didn’t see this at MLA. . .

Posted on January 9, 2007 by cicada

Out of reach Dave Rau www.redlabor.com Just as I began to fear that no topic could comfortably follow a post invoking medievalism and cephalopodmania, Phantasmaphile pointed me to the artwork of Dave Rau. Grungy engravings, fonts, textures, collaged and screened … Continue reading →

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Deliver us from MLA

Posted on January 7, 2007 by cicada

Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog reminds me why I didn’t do my PhD in medieval lit: So it befel in dede that a volvo did pulle up and a voys from it seyd, ‘You going to Philadelphia?’ And thys creatur … Continue reading →

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Wombs, Waxes and Wonder Cabinets

Posted on January 5, 2007 by cicada

This essay has been reposted at the new bioephemera, Feb 19, 08. Anatomical Teaching Model of a Pregnant Woman Stephan Zick, 1639-1715 Wood and ivory Kunstkammer Georg Laue is a Munich antique/art gallery informed by the sensibility of the “wonder … Continue reading →

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So true

Posted on January 4, 2007 by cicada

Go on, name one work by Donatello. Admit it, you’re not even sure if he sculpted or painted! All right, all right, here’s his wikipedia entry. From the immortal, beloved xkcd.

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Gross Clinic Stays Put

Posted on January 3, 2007 by cicada

The Gross Clinic Thomas Eakins, 1875 oil on canvas ‘The Gross Clinic’ will stay in Philadelphia – International Herald Tribune Apparently the Wal-Mart heiress’ plan to buy the painting by Philadelphia native Thomas Eakins and transplant it to Bentonville, Arkansas … Continue reading →

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Fashionable nature

Posted on January 1, 2007 by cicada

Still life: Photography by Guido Mocafico Guido Mocafico has worked as a fashion photographer, but his interests range from landscape to still life to nature to architecture. His website is a true cabinet of curiosities, including collections of jellyfish, snakes, … Continue reading →

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