Abecedarian : posts tagged evolution

Found 66 posts tagged ‘evolution’

Restoring the Lost Sense – July 10, 2016

Elections haven't evolved, as Fun magazine reminds us in 1885.

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]

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#vintage illustration #evolution #darwinism #politics #elections #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – July 1, 2016

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"Tommy's cousins," from St. Nicholas magazine, 1877.

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#vintage illustration #sea life #sea cousins #evolution #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – May 6, 2016

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"Descended from eagles," from This Simian World by Clarence Day, 1920.

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#vintage illustration #eagle #evolution #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – May 4, 2016

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From Songs of a Pleb by James Buchanan Siders, 1883.

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#vintage illustration #physiognomy #evolution #darwin #illustration #people who look like animals #art

Restoring the Lost Sense – December 19, 2015

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"Tommy's stocking and its astonishing evolution," from St. Nicholas magazine, 1908. This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

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#vintage illustration #christmas #santa #evolution #stocking #illustration #art

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – June 16, 2008

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"In the psychological development of the child, there is a step-by-step progression from the primal smile to the smile of embarrassment, joyful laughter, laughter at a comic situation, laughter in a group, aggressive laughter at an outsider, and finally (a somewhat depressing climax) the laugher of Schadenfreude. ... [A]t each step laughter signifies an experience of relief (Entlastung), both physically and psychologically."
—Peter Berger, Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience (1997)

The evolution of the smile and laugh, from Frans de Waal's "Darwin's Legacy and the Study of Primate Visual Communication" (PDF), via Cystalpunk.

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