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| George Krause Metamorphosis I 1982 gelatin silver print Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Giovanni Andrea Maglioli Sea Monster ca. 1600-1610 engraving Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel |
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| Douglas Sandhage Brontosaurus, San Bernardino, California 1975 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Centaur with Satyrs ca. 1780-1800 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| John Baldessari Umbrella (Orange): with Figure and Ball (Blue, Green) 2004 acrylic paint on mounted photograph Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Hazel Larsen Archer Betty Jennerjahn and Robert Rauschenberg ca. 1948 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Giacomo Brogi Statue of St Bartholomew by Marco d'Agrate in the Duomo, Milan (the saint is draped in his own flayed skin) before 1881 albumen silver print National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Russell Dever Egos and Bacon ca. 1975 oil on canvas Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia |
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| El Lissitzky The Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic 1937 photomontage Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Francis Frith Turkish Summer Costume 1857 albumen print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Audrey Flack Rolls Royce Lady 1981 C-print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Martin Johnson Heade Orchid and Hummingbird near a Mountain Waterfall 1902 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Jan van Hemessen- Allegory of Vanity (with skull in mirror facing viewer) ca. 1535-40 oil on panel Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
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| François-Raoul Larche Table Lamp in the form of Loïe Fuller ca. 1900 gilt bronze Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Jürgen Klauke Physiognomien (5) ca. 1972-73 C-print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Friedrich Goldscheider Ornamental Head of Woman ca. 1930 glazed terracotta Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Rachel Harrison Claude Levi-Strauss 2007 assemblage of mixed materials Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| William Eggleston Jackson, Mississippi 1973 dye transfer print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Koya Abe After Young Man Beside the Sea by Hippolyte Flandrin and Ding Desun and a Snake by Utagawa Kuniyoshi 2008 digital print British Museum |
The Charioteer of Delphi
Where are the horses of the sun?
Their master's green bronze hand, empty of all
But a tangle of reins, seems less to call
His horses back than to wait out their run.
To cool that havoc and restore
The temperance we had loved them for
I have implored him, child, at your behest.
Watch now, the flutings of his dress hang down
From the brave patina of breast.
His gentle eyes glass brown
Neither attend us nor the latest one
Blistered and stammering who comes to cry
Village in flames and river dry,
None to control the chariot
And to call back the killing horses none
Now that their master, eyes ashine, will not.
For watch, his eyes in the still air alone
Look shining and nowhere
Unless indeed into our own
Who are reflected there
Littler than dolls wound up by a child's fear
How tight, their postures only know.
And loosely, watch now, the reins overflow
His fist, as if once more the unsubdued
Beasts shivering and docile stood
Like us before him. Do you remember how
A small brown pony would
Nuzzle the cube of sugar from your hand?
Broken from his mild reprimand
In fire and fury hard upon the taste
Of a sweet license, even these have raced
Uncurbed in us, where fires are fanned.
– James Merrill (1959)