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The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love, to be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity of the life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.

Arundhati Roy (via paintgod)

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Zdzisław Beksiński (Polish ,1929 - 2005)

Untitled ,1979

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Walter Ruttmann, Opus Films,  1921-1924

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Ana Mendieta - “Silueta” Series

The “Siluetas” comprise more than 200 earth-body works that saw the artist burn, carve, and mold her silhouette into the landscapes of Iowa and Mexico. The sculptures made tangible Mendieta’s belief of the earth as goddess, rooted in Afro-Cuban Santería and the indigenous Taíno practices of her homeland.

“It is a way of reclaiming my roots and becoming one with nature.”

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yaşamak, yeraltına doğru, örtünme biçimleri ve ölüm, aşamalar.

ben zank, adrew wyeth, alessandro scioldr, frida kahlo, mats tusenfot

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Aertgen Claesz van Leyden (attributed to), The Raising of Lazarus (detail), 1530 - 1535. Oil on panel, 69.7 × 28cm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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Photography: Aleppo, Syria, 2010 Photographer:  Nicholas Johnson

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Stephen Conroy (b. 1964) 

Man on Stairs,  1993

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Church Interior with Woman at Prayer, before a Rococo Iron Grille, Adolph von Menzel

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all saints

Hours of Louis de Laval, France ca. 1480

BnF, Latin 920, fols. 180r, 181r, 182r

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Mona Hatoum - The Negotiating Table (2012)

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Marbrisa House. Overlooking Acapulco Bay, Mexico 1978. Arch. John Lautner.

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people who aren’t in the humanities: *that joke about how a non-physicist making shit up would get caught out within 5 minutes & a non-literature student just making shit up would be able to carry on the ruse indefinitely, or something*

meanwhile, literary theory in English: *expects you to be familiar with a broad variety of works in multiple languages written across multiple periods, a much larger corpus of works written in ‘your’ chosen period, the broad strokes of what’s been written about these works across the history of the field of literary studies, specifics about different approaches to literature and history popular throughout the history of the field (more or less, the historiography of the field), the specifics of competing scientific, political, philosophical, popular religious, and academic theological views current in your chosen period & the broad strokes of those immediately before and after, a whole bunch of allusions to ancient/classical literature regardless of what period you’re studying, Continental philosophy + 20th-century and modern philosophy, sociology, critical theory, & gender & race theory regardless of what period you’re studying, oh & you’ll probably also need a working knowledge of French, Italian, German, Latin, & at least a little bit of Greek*

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„Żywe szachy” na dziedzińcu wawelskim w Krakowie (lata 20-30).