Monthly Archives: April 2012
Insane Children’s Book Art Ruins Bedtime
What you’re looking at here are Heiri Strub’s illustrations from the 1956 Swiss edition of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Tinderbox, a fairly deranged 1835 children’s yarn about a trio of magic dogs with eyes the sizes of teacups, mill-wheels, and windmills, respectively.
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The Book Art of Cara Barer
Texas based photographer Cara Barer uses old phone books, computer manuals, maps, and comic books to create hypnotic sculptures, which she then photographs.
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Amazing Astronomy: Victorian-Era Illustrations of the Heavens
A chromolithograph of the planet Jupiter, observed Nov. 1, 1880, at 9:30 p.m. The piece of art reveals Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, akin to a hurricane on Earth, which has been raging on the planet for hundreds of years.
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Skeletal Pin-ups by Sylvia Ji
Themes of beauty and death merge in the work of Sylvia Ji, whose skull-faced femme fatales are adorned with nightshade and black widows. Her macabre images are both provocative and alluring, a reflections of life’s binaries; beauty and decay, love and lust and danger and desire.
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