Tag Archives: illustration


Jello Biafra

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Jello Biafra‘s cover illustration for Steven Kelman‘s ‘Push comes to Shove: The Escalation of Student Protest’ (1970)


Thoka Maer

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by Thoka Maer.


Wolfgang Beurer

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Wolfgang Beurer, ‘Stag hunting’ (late Gothic)


Saul Steinberg

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‘View of the world from 9th Ave.’, the March 29, 1976 cover for The New Yorker, by Saul Steinberg.


Alfred Joseph Frueh

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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.


Hans Haacke

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Hans Haacke at Museo Reina SofĂ­a, Madrid, in 2012.


E.J. Pace

A Fundamentalist cartoon portraying Modernism as the descent from Christianity to atheism, first published in 1922 and then used in Seven Questions in Dispute by William Jennings Bryan

‘The descent of the Modernists’ (1922) by E.J. Pace.

A Fundamentalist Christian cartoon portraying Modernism as the descent from Christianity to atheism, first published in 1922 and then used in the book ‘Seven Questions in Dispute’ by William Jennings Bryan.


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Ottoman miniature from the Surname-i Vehbi, showing the Column with the three serpent heads, in a celebration at the Hippodrome in 1582

Ottoman miniature from the Surname-i Vehbi (‘Book of Festival’, an album with illustrations depicting celebrations), showing the Column with the three serpent heads, in a celebration at the Hippodrome in 1582.


Thoka Maer

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by Thoka Maer


Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva

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Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva, ‘Homebodies’ (2008)