On [:] Happiness | William Lyon Phelps, 1927 / Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967
Jamie Wyeth, Bathtub, 1965 “The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use...
1920s
David the Dreamer : His Book of Dreams | Illustrations by Tom Seidmann-Freud, 1922
Ralph Bergengren / Tom Seidmann-Freud, David the Dreamer: His Book of Dreams, 1922 After Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of...
Instant Views [o.] People of Palestine | Photos by Frank Scholten, 1921-23
Frank Scholten, Palestine, 1921-23 Frank Scholten (1881–1942), a Dutch photographer and author, documented Palestine between 1921 and 1923 with a...
On [:] The Metaphysics of Chocolates | Alvaro de Campos, 1928
Sigmar Polke “Eat your chocolates, little girl,Eat your chocolates!Believe me, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolates,And all religions put...
My dear Angel / Letters to Genica Athanasiou | Antonin Artaud, 1921-40
Man Ray, Antonin Artaud, 1926 / Man Ray, Genica Athanasiou, 1925 "Wonderful night of twinkling stars staring at me from...
Stereosc2pe + Loplop Paradise | Marie-Berthe / Max Ernst, 1929-31
Lee Miller, Marie-Berthe Aurenche and Max Ernst, Paris, 1929 Marie-Berthe Aurenche, Loplop Paradise, 1931 Also:A Week of Kindness / Une...
On [:] Death Ritual | Mikhail Bakhtin, 1963
Federico Beltrán Masses, Carnival, 1925 “Deeply ambivalent also is the image of fire in carnival. It is a fire that...
Alphabetarion # Blame | Hermann Ungar, 1927
Wassily Kandinsky, Free Curve to the Point, 1925 "What was so terrible was not that one brought about one’s own...
Abstract Sculptures by John Storrs, 1919-1935
John Storrs, Abstraction, 1919 John Storrs, Auto Tower, 1922 John Storrs, Forms in Space #1, 1924 John Storrs, Forms in...
On [:] Want | F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920
Happy New year postcard, 1913 “I’m not sure what I’ll do, but — well, I want to go places and...