Suástica

Basketball team

Chilocco Indian Agricultural School 

1909

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Revolta de Haymarket

May 1, 1886	Industrial workers across the U.S. go on strike, demanding an 8-hour workday.
May 3, 1886	During a strike at McCormick Reaper Works in Chicago, demonstrators clash with police, and several of the strikers are wounded or killed.
May 4, 1886	A bomb is detonated after police break up a meeting of labor activists near Haymarket Square in Chicago. One police officer is killed by the blast, and several men, both strikers and police officers, die or are wounded in the ensuing violence.
May 27, 1886	Thirty-one men are indicted and 8 men—Albert Parsons, August Spies, Oscar Neebe, Louis Lingg, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden—are arrested and charged as accessories to murder.
July 16, 1886	The eight men go to trial. On August 19th, the men are found guilty, and seven are sentenced to death by hanging. The eighth man, Oscar Neebe is given a lighter sentence of 15 years in the penitentiary.
September 14, 1887	After an appeal is filed, the Illinois Supreme Court upholds the lower court’s ruling. An appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in November is denied.
November 10, 1887	Louis Lingg commits suicide in prison.
November 11, 1887	Parsons, Spies, Engel, and Fischer are executed. Their funeral is witnessed by over 150,000 people.
June 26, 1893	Illinois governor John Peter Altgeld pardons Neebe, Fielden, and Schwab.

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• "Illinois - The anarchist-labor troubles in Chicago The police charging the murderous rioters in old Haymarket Square on the night of May 4th"
• Two page spread showing police charging rioters on May 4th in Haymarket Square, Chicago
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Doença dos legionários

"Legionnaire disease, form of pneumonia caused by the bacillus Legionella pneumophila. The name of the disease (and of the bacterium) derives from a 1976 state convention of the American Legion, a U.S. military veterans’ organization, at a Philadelphia hotel where 182 Legionnaires contracted the disease, 29 of them fatally." daqui

Gangrene of the lung

drawn by Frederick Richard Say

1827

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Manuscritos

Carta de Massamá de Luiz Pacheco para Laureano Barros, 16/02/74

    “(...) Eu não sei se o Laureano Barros terá tido por aí conhecimento: chegou agora a Portugal, por via talvez da desvalorização da moeda e de haver muito dinheiro em poucas mãos, que já nem sabem como o hão-de empregar mais rendosamente, o culto pelo Autor, isto é, as coisinhas que os escribas deixam. Viu-se isso há pouco, foi um teste decisivo e para muitos inesperado (forte surpresa! era prática centenária no Lá Fora; ainda li há dias, que o [D. H.] Lawrence obtivera uma quinta solarenga no Novo México em troca do manuscrito de um dos seus romances e fez isso mais vezes), no leilão a favor da Associação de Escritores Portugueses. Convidado a dar, não respondi; insistido, disse que sim e faltei. Aquilo meteu-me raiva, embora por dentro me rejubilasse: é que vi (soube pelos jornais) fazerem-se manuscritos de propósito para o leilão. O que me cheira a jactância. Seremos na verdade assim tão importantes?”

Pacheco, Luiz, O Grilo na Varanda – Luiz Pacheco para Laureano Barros (Correspondência, 1966-2001), transcrição, introdução e notas de João Pedro George, Lisboa, Tinta-da-China, 2017, p. 137.

Auto da morte: manuscrito/fragmento

Fernando Pessoa

Lisboa

19--

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Bonnie and Clyde

"Bonnie and Clyde, in full Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, (respectively, born October 1, 1910, Rowena, Texas, U.S.—died May 23, 1934, near Sailes, Bienville Parish, Louisiana; born March 24, 1909, Telico, Texas, U.S.—died May 23, 1934, near Sailes, Bienville Parish, Louisiana), robbery team that became notorious in the United States through their flamboyant encounters with police and the sensationalization of their exploits by the country’s newspapers." daqui

Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker

Dallas Police Department Collection

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Miss Breme Jones

Miss Breme Jones

John Rose

probably 1785-1787

 Colonial Williamsburg

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SIDA e racismo

     “Assim, como ilustração do clássico cenário da peste, pensa-se que a sida partiu do «continente negro», espalhando-se depois para o Haiti, seguidamente para os Estados Unidos e para a Europa e depois… É vista como uma doença tropical: mais uma infestação do chamado «Terceiro Mundo», que no fundo é onde vive a maior parte da população mundial, assim como uma praga dos tristes tropiques. Os africanos que detectam estereótipos racistas num grande número de especulações sobre as origens geográficas da sida não se enganam. (Assim como não se enganam ao pensarem que a apresentação da África como berço da sida alimenta os preconceitos anti-africanos na Europa e na Ásia.) A conotação subconsciente com ideias de um passado primitivo e as inúmeras hipóteses formuladas acerca da possível transmissão por animais (uma doença dos macacos verdes? A febre suína africana?) mais não fazem que activar uma série de estereótipos bem conhecidos sobre a animalidade, a licenciosidade sexual, e os negros.”

Sontag, Susan, A Doença como Metáfora e A Sida e as Suas Metáforas, Lisboa, Quetzal Editores, 1998, p. 145.

Fight AIDS. Verso: ACT UP

ACT UP New York

1992 - 1995

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Nenúfar

"Gigantic lily leaf (Victoria Regia), used as a raft - in charming Como Park, St. Paul, Minn."

[1903]

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Basquiat

 

Untitled

Jean-Michel Basquiat

1981

"Many of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s paintings are in some way autobiographical, and Untitled may be considered a form of self-portraiture. The skull here exists somewhere between life and death. The eyes are listless, the face is sunken in, and the head looks lobotomized and subdued. Yet there are wild colors and spirited marks that suggest a surfeit of internal activity. Developing his own personal iconography, in this early work Basquiat both alludes to modernist appropriation of African masks and employs the mask as a means of exploring identity. Basquiat labored over this painting for months — evident in the worked surface and imagery — while most of his pieces were completed with bursts of energy over just a few days. The intensity of the painting, which was presented at his debut solo gallery exhibition in New York City, may also represent Basquiat’s anxieties surrounding the pressures of becoming a commercially successful artist" daqui

Cigarro

Young Woman Holding a Cigarette (Jeune femme tenant une cigarette)

Pablo Picasso

1901

"Picasso painted this picture of a sickly looking prostitute during a trip to Paris in the fall of 1901. It is typical of his Blue Period, during when he often depicted subjects from the margins of society. One clue to this woman's social status is the cigarette; in Paris of 1901, proper French women were not seen smoking in public. Picasso emphasizes his subject's weariness with subtle dabs of red beneath her eyes. This was one of the first paintings in Dr. Barnes's collection." daqui

Mary Sabina

Mary Sabina

1740-1745

Colonial Williamsburg

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"The true Picture of Mary-Sabina, who was born octr 12 1736, at Matuna, a Plantation belonging to ye Jesuit's in ye City of Cartagena in America of two Negroe Slaves Named Martiniano & Patrona"

Bibliofilia

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"A bibliophile seated in his library at a book-covered table, poring over a tome propped on an easel, bookshelves behind him and a chair with a stack of books to the right, a large window beyond"

"J.W. Boulton Bookseller and Importer 706 Broadway New York" 

"Designed & Etched by George Cruikshank in September 1871 who was born on the 27th Septr 1792"

Mulher a ler

Springtime

Monet

1872

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"Monet moved to Argenteuil, a suburban town on the right bank of the Seine River northwest of Paris, in late December 1871. Many of the types of scenes that he and the other Impressionists favored could be found in this small town, conveniently connected by rail to nearby Paris. In this painting, Monet was less interested in capturing a likeness than in studying how unblended dabs of color could suggest the effect of brilliant sunlight filtered through leaves. During the early 1870s, Monet frequently depicted views of his backyard garden that included his wife, Camille, and their son, Jean. However, when exhibited at the Second Impressionist Exhibition in 1876, this painting was titled more generically, "Woman Reading."

Niños que Viven

Fenomenos extraordinarios de la naturaleza

Niños que Viven

1787

"Este juego particular se ve en una Niña negra y blanca ó color Pio, y un Niño Mulato, ambos de la edad de 6 años nacidos / en la California que el dia 3 de Marzo de 1787 fueron presentados á la Familia Rl. de Francia por el Sr. CURTIUS y despues espuestos al Publico. / Esta estampa es sacada de un Dibujo del Natural que ha remitido desde paris un Español que ha visto ambos Niños" Daqui

Palácio das Cortes em Lisboa

Augusto Xavier Moreira

1865-1868

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Histeria

Arch of Hysteria

Louise Bourgeois

1993

    "Jerry Gorovoy: I’m Jerry Gorovoy. This hanging bronze figure is called the Arch of Hysteria.

Louise had actually been in psychoanalysis from 1951 all the way up until the 1980s. At the beginning of psychoanalysis with Freud there was a lot of interest in the hysterical woman who would have these contortions where the body would arch up in the air. Men did it too. But Louise always thought the psychoanalysts liked to see the women.

(...)

The hanging arch figure is actually a cast of my body. Louise had me lie down on a curved mound to get this shape, and then the body was in a plaster mold, which she then cut up to make this curve.

To Louise the state of hanging was this idea of fragility, because it meant that the body could turn, it could pivot, it could spin, so it wasn't a stable kind of thing. Louise wanted this figure to have a high polish so that the viewer’s face is caught inside the body of this contorted figure. So it brings the viewer into the picture." Daqui

Portugal - two women riding donkey on road with umbrella

Portugal, two women riding donkey on road with umbrella

Eugene V. Harris

between 1937 and 1969

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Dia da Marmota

    "A popular tradition in the United States, Groundhog Day is also a legend that traverses centuries, its origins clouded in the mists of time with ethnic cultures and animals awakening on specific dates. Myths such as this tie our present to the distant past when nature did, indeed, influence our lives. It is the day that the Groundhog comes out of his hole after a long winter sleep to look for his shadow.

    If he sees it, he regards it as an omen of six more weeks of bad weather and returns to his hole.

    If the day is cloudy and, hence, shadowless, he takes it as a sign of spring and stays above ground.

    The groundhog tradition stems from similar beliefs associated with Candlemas Day and the days of early Christians in Europe, and for centuries the custom was to have the clergy bless candles and distribute them to the people. Even then, it marked a milestone in the winter and the weather that day was important." Daqui

Jacques de Sève

La Marmotte

1752

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    "The Christian religious holiday of Candlemas Day has become most commonly associated with the current celebration, but it's roots are older than that. The celebration started in Christianity as the day, (February 2nd), when Christians would take their candles to the church to have them blessed. This, they felt, would bring blessings to their household for the remaining winter.

    As time rolled on the day evolved into another form. The following English folk song highlights the transition to weather prognostication.

If Candlemas be fair and bright,

Come, Winter, have another flight;

If Candlemas brings clouds and rain,

Go Winter, and come not again.

    This “interpretation” of Candlemas Day became the norm for most of Europe. As you can read, there is no mention of an animal of any kind in the preceding song. It wasn't until this traditional belief was introduced to Germany that an animal was introduced into the lore, hence another evolution of February 2nd. If, according to German lore, the hedgehog saw his shadow on Candlemas Day there would be a “Second Winter” or 6 more weeks of bad weather. As German settlers came to what is now the United States, so too came their traditions and folklore. With the absence of hedgehogs in the United States, a similar hibernating animal was chosen. This leads us to yet another evolution in the legend and to present day Punxsutawney." Daqui

William Harrison Hays - Motion Picture Production Code (Hays Code)

 "In 1922, after the occurrence of a number of scandals involving Hollywood personalities, the leaders of the motion-picture industry formed the self-regulating MPPDA to counteract the threat of government censorship of films and to create favourable publicity for the industry. Hays was offered a position as president. As a respected national politician and dignified elder in the Presbyterian Church, Hays brought prestige to the organization. He initiated a moral blacklist in Hollywood, inserted morals clauses in actors’ contracts, and in 1930 was one of the authors of the Production Code, a detailed enumeration of what was morally acceptable on the screen, which was not supplanted until 1966." Daqui

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Robert Mapplethorpe - Poppy

Robert Mapplethorpe, Poppy, 1988

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    "Throughout the 1980s, Mapplethorpe produced images that simultaneously challenge and adhere to classical aesthetic standards: stylized compositions of male and female nudes, delicate flower still lifes, and studio portraits of artists and celebrities, to name a few of his preferred genres." Daqui