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| Mariette Pathy Allen Malinda with others at the Spring Fling Party Days Provincetown, Massachusetts 1980 inkjet print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Robert Barnes Calais Coach 1980 oil on panel Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin |
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| Bill Brandt Bridget Riley 1980 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Jo Ann Callis Goldfish and Stringbeans (#99) 1980 inkjet print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| James Casebere Courtroom 1980 gelatin silver print Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Lynne Cohen Computer School, Pittsburgh 1980 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Susan Crile Deflected Light 1980 oil and gesso on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Bruce Davidson Subway 1980 dye imbibition print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Lee Friedlander Canton, Ohio 1980 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Gilbert and George Crusade 1980 hand-colored photomontage Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Jörg Immendorff 4 Muses 1980 acrylic on canvas Saint Louis Art Museum |
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| Robert Mapplethorpe Katherine Cebrian 1980 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| George Murphy Back of Atheneum II 1980 watercolor on paper Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC |
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| Julian Schnabel Insane Authority - Portrait of Dr Caligari 1980 oil and cowhide on velvet Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Deborah Turbeville Dust-Sheeted Apartments of Madame du Barry at Versailles 1980 inkjet print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Jerome Witkin Pose-Study for Portrait of Claudia Glass 1980 drawing Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Francesca Woodman Untitled 1980 inkjet print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
The Secrets of the Earth
The eternal gates' terrific porter lifted the northern bar:
Thel entered in and saw the secrets of the land unknown.
She saw the couches of the dead, and where the fibrous roots
Of every heart on earth infixes deep its restless twists:
A land of sorrows and of tears where never smile was seen.
She wandered in the land of clouds through valleys dark, listening to
Dolours and lamentations; waiting oft beside a dewy grave
She stood in silence, listening to the voices of the ground,
Till to her own grave plot she came, and there she sat down,
And heard this voice of sorrow breathed from the hollow pit.
'Why cannot the Ear be closed to its own destruction?
Or the glistening Eye to the poison of a smile?
Why are Eyelids stored with arrows ready drawn,
Where a thousand fighting men in ambush lie?
Or an Eye of gifts and graces showering fruits and coined gold?
Why a Tongue impressed with honey from every wind?
Why an Ear, a whirlpool fierce to draw creations in?
Why a Nostril wide inhaling terror, trembling, and affright?
Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy?
Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?'
– William Blake, from The Book of Thel (1789)