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The Unfortunate Fate of Childhood Dolls
By Rainer Maria RilkeRilke wrote this essay after having viewed the dolls of Lotte Pritzel at a Munich exhibition in 1913. They were not designed for children. These elongated and emaciated dolls were mounted on small baroque stands and dressed for the most part in weir…
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Vincent Van Gogh -- The Big Picture
By John MulliganMid-July 1955, 889 years after the Battle of Hastings, the townspeople of Auvers, a one-steepled, overgrown tarry town near Paris, woke up to a spanking, hand lettered, red-white-and-blue poster festooned across the front of the cafe A Van Gogh.
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A Siren in a Paper Sleeve
By Christopher KingI am a record collector. The type of disc with which I am obsessed, the 78-rpm phonograph record, is made of slowly decaying organic materials, bound together and coated with synthetic compounds. John Blacking, a pioneering ethnomusicologist of the…
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Five Stories
By Lydia DavisIf we hadn’t stopped on our way to the ceremony to look at the pen of black pigs, we wouldn’t have seen the very large pig lunge at the smaller one, to force him away from the feeding trough.
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Fugitive Photographs
By Francesca WoodmanIn a photograph around 1977, Francesca Woodman perches in an armchair in her Providence, Rhode Island, studio. The shot is a long one, and Woodman, set in the background, almost disappears in the disarray of the room.
