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Restoring the Lost Sense – March 31, 2015

[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 #minotaur #greek mythology #illustration #half man #half bull

Restoring the Lost Sense – December 26, 2014

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An illustration from an 1888 issue of Punch magazine.

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#vintage illustration #owl #anthropomorphism #harpy #human faced #bird man #illustration

Book of Whispers – December 20, 2014

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"I could not distinguish what he said," from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells, 1896.

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#vintage illustration #pig man #illustration #h. g. wells #doctor moreau #vivisection #pig language

Restoring the Lost Sense – December 15, 2014

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"A human tarantula," from Our Sister Republic by Albert S. Evans, 1870.

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#vintage illustration #hybrid #tarantula #illustration #human spider

This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea – November 16, 2014

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"The sough of the ocean," from Southerly Busters by Ironbark, 1878.

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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News

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#vintage illustration #sea monster #hybrid #sea pig #illustration #pig fish

Restoring the Lost Sense – October 13, 2014

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The lady with a pig's head, from The Book of Days by Robert Chambers, 1864.

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#vintage illustration #animal headed #pig headed #illustration #pig woman #pig's head #oink

Restoring the Lost Sense – July 22, 2014

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"The Sparking Fluid": an illustration from Ask Mama by Robert Smith Surtees (1892).

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#vintage illustration #peacock #champagne #1890s #illustration #sparkling fluid #peacock man

Restoring the Lost Sense – April 1, 2014

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An illustration from a 1903 issue of The Lady's Realm magazine. The caption reads: "'I have come,' it said, 'and I was once great.'"

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#pan #old gods #forest deity #half goat

Restoring the Lost Sense – October 27, 2013

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If it's the last dance, let it be with a goat. From an 1870 issue of London Society Illustrated magazine.

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#demon #devil #satan #death #love #goat man #vintage #goat #great beast #dance #lucifer #1870s #illustration #masque #mummer #olde worlde #great god pan #horned god

Strange Dreams – October 15, 2013

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Here are two strange incarnations of tamed cockatrice-like animals, each partially equine. The first appears in a child's nightmare (Punch, 1865). The second is ridden by a knife-wielding adult in broad daylight (Punch, 1858).