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Arild Kristo Preacher in Times Square 1962 gelatin silver print Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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Herbert Andrew Paus Save Food and Defeat Frightfulness 1917 lithograph (poster) Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
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Anonymous British Designer The Kitchen is the Key to Victory Eat Less Bread ca. 1916 lithograph (poster) Museum Folkwang, Essen |
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Eric Gill For Advertising on this Railway apply to W.H. Smith & Son ca. 1909 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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Albert Klingner Van Munster's Dutch Bitters ca. 1900-1902 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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Albert Besnard Souscrivez pour hâter La Paix par La Victoire 1917 lithograph (poster) Milwaukee Art Museum |
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Juozas Galkus Alcoholism (Lithuanian public-health poster) 1969 lithograph Wellcome Collection, London |
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Rolf Lagerson Wash Hands before Eating 1955 lithograph (poster) Röhsska Museet, Göteborg |
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John Melin and Anders Österlin Test Your Tires Here - Free!!! 1964 lithograph (poster) Röhsska Museet, Göteborg |
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Asger Jorn Aid os Etudiants - Quil Puise Etudier e Aprandre en Liberté (phonetic French) 1968 lithograph Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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Henri Cueco Demonstration ca. 1968 engraving Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau |
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Peter Staronosov Success to Stalin's Five-Year Plan! 1933 wood-engraving Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Lev Vyazmensky Solidarity between the Prisoners of Capital and the Champions of World Socialism ca. 1930 lithograph (poster) Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Alexander Rodchenko Workers of the World Unite! (Red Square Military Parade) 1936 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Gustav Klucis Increasing the Pace of Industrialization 1931 photomontage Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Anonymous Russian Designer Cleanliness to defeat Typhus 1921 lithograph (poster) Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
In the morning we put to sea with a gentle wind. About midday, when the island was out of sight, a whirlwind suddenly arose, whirling our ship around and raising it some forty miles into the air. But it did not deposit us back on the sea, for when we were hanging in midair, a wind struck, billowed our sails, and carried us along. For seven days and as many nights we sailed through the air, and on the eighth saw a large tract of land suspended in the atmosphere like an island; it was bright and spherical, and bathed in a strong light. We put in to it, anchored, and went ashore. On exploring the land, we found it to be inhabited and cultivated. We could see nothing from it during the daytime, but when night fell many other islands became visible near to it, some larger, some smaller, the color of fire. There was also another land below us, with cities, rivers, seas, forests, and mountains; this we supposed to be our earth.
. . . The king inspected us and, guessing from the look of us and from our dress that we were Greeks, asked us, when we said we were, how we had managed to cover all that distance in the air to get where we were. We told him the whole story, whereupon he launched into a complete account of himself. It appeared that he too was a man, called Endymion; he had been snatched form our earth one day while he was asleep and conveyed to where he now was, and on his arrival had become king of the country. The land was, he said, what appeared as the moon from earth.
– Lucian, from A True Story (2nd century AD), translated from Greek by B.P. Reardon (1989)