1 day ago by JP Mullaney

"American Gothic" has been reproduced and parodied so much that I feel I've never had a proper look at it. Taken it for Granted, so to speak. The title comes not from the physiognomies of the couple per se, but from the "Gothic Revival"–style windows of the house Grant Wood fancied and preserved in ...

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3 days ago by Steven

Just about everyone will recognize the painting in the photograph above as being American Gothic by Grant Wood that was painted in 1930, but not many will will probably recognize the two people standing beside the painting. So it was rather cool to see this post from Jason Kottke with the explanatio ...

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9 days ago by Mark

Note: The following is an essay originally written for Professor Nancy Easterlin after she took over the Short Story as a Genre class during the Fall 2010 semester at the University of New Orleans following the untimely death of the late Professor J.W. Cooke. Date of creation: December 26, 2010. If ...

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15 days ago by Simon Jones

This picture was something I shot kind of in passing. I’d just been looking at the driftwood sculptures on the beach of the small west coast town of Hokitika when as I left the beach I saw this window. The window belongs to a little house that looks out across beach road to the Tasmin Sea. A little ...

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15 days ago by Robert

The peculiarities of American gothic are inescapable in even a haphazard exploration of the Great Plains. But perhaps the most unusual creation to be found in the area is the brainchild of one Jim Reinders. Located near Alliance, Nebraska, Carhenge was built nearly 25 years ago by Reinders as a memo ...

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20 days ago by diarioelettorale

ovvero Della difficoltà di leggere “il forcone” e ciò che ci sta intorno. Metafora ed icona, della difficoltà di lettura, del siculo “movimento dei forconi”, è forse il celebre olio “American Gothic”, un dipinto del 1930, eseguito dall’artista statunitense Grant Wood, nato nell’ Iowa ma di formazion ...

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25 days ago by The Scoop

A real nice acquaintance I know from dining at the bar of the Library Alehouse in Santa Monica showed me this photo he shot and made into this Sign of the Times. The homeless couple, in Chicago if I'm not mistaken, posed for this photo. Click photo to view full size Don't let yourself go. Prevention ...

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27 days ago by Darren

More swampy goodness...

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32 days ago by THEWHELMING

David Eger’s personal project, 365 Days of Clones. Some of the iconic images from history played by Star War’s storm troopers. Here’s a few of my favorites. Galloping Trooper Eadweard Muybridge’s The Horse in Motion. 162/365 - B.F. (Boba Fett) E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial ( 1982) 226/365 - The Kiss V ...

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36 days ago by smiley

Cezanne new york city based Devorah Sperber’s starting working with spools of thread in 1999. her thread p ieces are all recreations of works by famous artists – monet, cezanne, picasso, da vinci, rembrandt, and van gogh to name a few… not only are the works re-made out of spools of thread, they are ...

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