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| Alec Soth Cape Girardeau, Missouri 2002 C-print North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Alec Soth Cemetery, Fountain City, Wisconsin 2002 C-print North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Alec Soth Charles Lindbergh's Boyhood Bed, Little Falls, Minnesota 2004 C-print North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Alec Soth Immaculate Conception Church, Kaskaskia, Illinois 2002 C-print North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Paris Bordone Portrait of a Man ca. 1520-30 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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| Paris Bordone Portrait of a Man 1533 oil on canvas Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| Paris Bordone Portrait of a Man in Armour ca. 1535-40 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Paris Bordone Portrait of Nikolaus Körbler 1532 oil on canvas Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| Anders Zorn Fisherman at Saint Ives 1891 etching Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Anders Zorn Frida 1914 etching and drypoint National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Anders Zorn Max Liebermann 1891 etching Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Anders Zorn Study for Portrait of Isabella Gardner 1894 drawing Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
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| Joos de Momper the Younger Mountain Landscape ca. 1620 oil on canvas Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| Joos de Momper the Younger Mountain Landscape with Pilgrims and other Travelers ca. 1620-30 oil on canvas Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe |
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| Joos de Momper the Younger (landscape) and Sebastian Vrancx (figures) Alpine Landscape ca. 1620-25 oil on panel Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Joos de Momper the Younger (landscape) and Jan Brueghel the Elder (figures) Pilgrims at a Chapel in a Grotto ca. 1600-1610 oil on panel Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
from Part One of The Age of Anxiety
They fell silent and immediately became conscious again of the radio, now blandly inexorably bringing to all John Doakes and G.I. Joes tidings of great joy and saying
Definitely different. Has that democratic
Extra elegance. Easy to clean.
Will gladden grand-dad and your girl friend.
Lasts a lifetime. Leaves no odor.
American made. A modern product
Of nerve and know-how with a new thrill.
Patriotic to own. Is on its way
In a patent package. Pays to investigate.
Serves through science. Has something added
By skilled Scotchmen. Exclusively used
By upper classmen and Uncle Sam.
Tops in tests by teenagers.
Just ask for it always.
Matter and manner set their teeth on edge, especially Malin's who felt like talking. So he ordered a round of drinks, then said:
Here we sit
Our bodies bound to these bar-room lights,
The night's odors, the noise of the El on
Third Avenue, but our thoughts are free . . .
Where shall they wander? To the wild past
When, beaten back, banished to their cirques
The horse-shoe glaciers curled up and died,
And cold-blooded through conifers slouched
Fumbling amphibians; forward into
Tidy utopias of eternal spring,
Vitamins, villas, visas for dogs
And art for all; or up and down through
Those hidden worlds of alien sizes
Which lenses elicit?
But Emble objected:
Muster no monsters, I'll meeken my own.
So did Rosetta:
You may wish till you waste, I'll want here.
So did Quant:
Too blank the blink of these blind heavens.
– W.H. Auden (1944-46)