On [:] Telescope | Josh Billings, 1874
Ōta Chōu, Women Watching Stars, 1936 “Love looks through a telescope;envy, through a microscope.” Josh Billings, Everybody's Friend, Or Josh...
1870s
Days [ ) Pray | Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1879
John Dumont, Listening to the Birds, 1892 “My brother asked the birds to forgive him; that sounds senseless, but it...
Alphabetarion # Myth | Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray, 1871
Chrysa Romanou, Map – Labyrinth, 1997 (decollage) “He who tells the people false revolutionary myths, he who amuses them with...
Lyrical landscapes | Paintings by Aleksey Savrasov, 1830-1897
Aleksey Savrasov, Winter Landscape, 1890 Aleksey Savrasov, Landscape the village of Volyn, 1887 Aleksey Savrasov, A Moonlit Night on the...
On [:] Search | Émile Zola, 1871
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Stolen Kiss, 1787 “When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching,feeling for one...
Days [ ) Each | Leo Tolstoy, 1873
Masahisa Fukase, Family Portrait, 1972 “All happy families are alike; each unhappyfamily is unhappy in its own way.” Leo Tolstoy,...
On [:] Continent | Jules Verne, 1870
Chesley Bonestell, A molten, prehistoric Earth, 1978 “The earth does not need new continents, but new men.” Jules Verne, Twenty...
On [:] Poetry | Emily Dickinson to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1870
Carl Larsson, Portrait of Dora Lamm, 1900 “If I read a book it makes my whole body so cold no...
On [:] The Living Infinite | Jules Verne, 1870
Srihadi Soedarsono, Blue Horizon, 1978 . "The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath...
Alphabetarion # Seek | Vincent van Gogh, 1875
Vincent van Gogh, Wheat Field with a Lark, 1887 . "Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself...