Caroline McCarthy, ‘Souvenirs (Blue) & Golden Wonder’ (1998)
Cut-Out Swimming Pools from Holiday Brochures, Crisps, Shelving, Wire
Composition
Nail houses
A nail house is a Chinese neologism for homes belonging to people (sometimes called “stubborn nails”) who refuse to make room for real estate development. The term, a pun coined by developers, refers to nails that are stuck in wood, and cannot be pounded down with a hammer.
Saul Steinberg
‘View of the world from 9th Ave.’, the March 29, 1976 cover for The New Yorker, by Saul Steinberg.
Sir Edward James
Sir Edward James‘s surrealist garden in Las Pozas, a mountainous village in North-East Mexican, lost in the jungle of Xilitla, in the state of San Luis Potósi.
Joseph Gandy
Joseph Gandy, ‘Buildings of Sir John Soane’ (1818)
Watercolour of an imaginary room filled with the architect John Soane‘s models.
Alfred Joseph Frueh
Letter from cartoonist Alfred Joseph Frueh to his wife Giuliette Fanciulli, sent on Jan. 10th, 1913.
The letter opens up to form a model of a gallery hung with paintings. Frueh made this model to inform his wife about the details of a specific art gallery before her visit.
Collection of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.
