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The Art of Making Debts: Accounting for an Obsession in 19th-Century France
Being in debt was once an artful promenade — the process of eluding creditors through disguise and deceit. Erika Vause explores a forgotten financial history: the pervasive humor that once accompanied the literature and visual culture of debt. more
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Regarded as one of the greatest American painters of the 19th century, Homer utilized both oil paint and watercolor in depicting 19th century American Sea and landscapes and the daily lives of those who inhabited it.
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Reijer Johan Antonie Stolk (1896–1945) was a Javanese-born Dutch painter, sculptor, graphic artist, inventor and Batik artist.
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Food Pasts, Food Futures: The Culinary History of COVID-19
A criti-fictional course-syllabus from the year 2070 — a bibliographical meteor from the other side of a “Remote Revolution”. more
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