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'The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up' by Robert Burton
Toulouse-Lautrec spent a lot of time through the 1890s painting the prostitutes, residents and visitors of a Parisian brothel on the rue d'Ambroise. The observational paintings are intimate, warm and compassionate towards the subjects..
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The Long Goodbye (1973) Dir Robert Altman
Original theatrical release poster...
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Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book by Terry Jones and Brian Froud is a collection of "pressed fairies" intended to satarise the famous Cottingley Fairies. The book contains Jone's whimsical humour and Froud's beautiful illustrations..
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Andrei Tarkovsky polaroids..
"The image is not a certain meaning, expressed by the director, but the entire world reflected in a drop of water"
- Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time.
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"Patients were provided with assembly kit photographs of sexual partners during intercourse. In each case Reagan's face was super imposed upon the original partner. Vaginal intercourse with "Reagan" proved uniformly disappointing, producing orgasm in 2% of subjects." -JG Ballard
Paintings by German artist Sascha Schneider (1870 – 1927)..
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Animated Phenakistiscope Disc 'Distorted Man', 1833.
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