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Man Ray - Femme Allongée avec torse de la Vénus de Médicis, 1935-1937

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“Still LIfe with Flowers and Fruit” by Suzanne Valadon, 1932. via bofransson

Suzanne Valadon (23 September 1865 – 7 April 1938) was a French painter born Marie-Clémentine Valadon at Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, France. In 1894, Valadon became the first woman painter admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. She was also the mother of painter Maurice Utrillo.

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Everett Shinn - Acrobat Falling (1930) via ahomeforbirds

Everett Shinn (November 6, 1876 – May 1, 1953) was an American realist painter and member of the Ashcan School, also known as ‘the Eight.’ He was the youngest member of the group of modernist painters who explored the depiction of real life. He is most famous for his numerous paintings of New York and the theater and of various aspects of luxury and modern life inspired by his home in New York City.

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“The watch on the high tower” From The floating prince and other fairy tales, by Frank R Stockton, 1930. Via bartleby-company, source: archive.org

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Karel Teige - Collage no. 127, 1939.

… from Karel Teige / 1900-1950: L’Enfant Terrible of the Czech Modernist Avant-Garde, Edited by Eric Dluhosch and Rostislav Svacha, MIT Press, 1999.

Aleksander Rodchenko: “War of the Future” 1930. Via alfiusdebux

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Uncredited WPA poster for a 1936 production of R.U.R. aka “Rossum’s Universal Robots” a 1920 sci-fi play that coined the word robot into English. via paul.malon & mudwerks

R.U.R. is a 1920 science fiction play in the Czech language by Karel Čapek. R.U.R. stands for Rossum’s Universal Robots, an English phrase used as the subtitle in the Czech original.^[1] It premiered in 1921 and introduced the word “robot” to the English language and to science fiction as a whole.^[2]

Adski_Kafeteri: Regina Relang - Shoes Walk around a Tree, Paris, 1936 via mudwerks

Photo of Argentinean surrealist Leonor Fini and a proximate manequin by Henri Cartier Bresson, 1932, via theremina

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Dorothy Parker: “Heterosexuality is not normal; it’s just common.” More of the lady’s wit and wisdom here.

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WPA poster for “Alien Corn by Sidney Howard” at LA’s Mayan Theatre, Federal Theatre Project production in 1938 via mudwerks & paul.malon

“The Model” photo by Man Ray (1933). More on Man Ray here. via inneroptics