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| Robin Schwartz Amelia and Ricky 2002 C-print Brooklyn Museum |
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| Tom Young Leaning Bales 2002 inkjet print Denver Art Museum |
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| Jeff Wall Boys cutting through a Hedge 2003 transparency in lightbox Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
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| Cherine Fahd The Chosen, Yellowlady, Paris 2003 C-print National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Gillian Wearing Self Portrait at 17 years old 2003 C-print Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
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| Gillian Wearing Self Portrait as my father Brian Wearing 2003 gelatin silver print Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
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| Candida Höfer Teylers Museum, Haarlem II 2003 C-print National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Stephen Shore Matrices for casting Italic Capitals 2004 C-print Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Jessica Backhaus Janusz 2004 C-print Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Jason Florio Suit-Seller, Medina, Tripoli 2004 C-print Yale Center for British Art |
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| Henry Horenstein Untitled (Ear) 2004 gelatin silver print Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| John Pfahl Jewell Weed Riverbank, Hoopers Valley, NY (series, Luminous River) 2004 C-print Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
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| Robert Burley Art Photo Studio Closed Due To Retirement, Toronto, Ontario 2005 inkjet print Yale University Art Gallery |
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| David Levinthal Untitled (series, Passion) 2005 Polaroid dye diffusion transfer color print Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
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| Robert Weingarten Palette Series, Robert Kushner #1 (Floor) 2005 inkjet print Denver Art Museum |
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| James Mollison The Disciples, Marilyn Manson Concert, Italy 2005 C-print Brooklyn Museum |
But Venus, as a mother, takes alarm –
and not in vain – noting the harsh uprising
and threats of the Laurentians. And she turns
to Vulcan in their golden wedding chamber,
breathing celestial love into her words:
"While Argive kings were ravaging doomed Troy
and towers fell before the fires of hate,
I did not ask your help for my sad Trojans,
or weapons made by your own art and power.
I did not trouble you, my dearest husband,
or make you work in vain, however much
I owed to Priam's sons, however often
I wept at the hard trials of Aeneas.
But now, by Jove's command, he has landed on
the coasts of the Rutulians; therefore,
I, who before asked nothing of you, come
as suppliant, a mother for her son,
to beg arms of the god whom I adore."
– Venus induces Vulcan to fashion arms for Aeneas, from Book VIII of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)