I N V E R T E D . . . objects in art

a 1960 illustration of washed and inverted drinking glasses

     

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a Joost Swarte illustration,  2018
        

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from an 1873 printing supply catalog,  metal typesetting characters

     

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an inverted layout in a 1957 home bathroom

     

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a photograph from the 1937 Paris Expo Internationale ... scary-looking technology

     

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an 1839 library chair       see full size

     

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a Harrison Cady illustration

     

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a Tullio Crali painting,  1920s?

     

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Georges Redon
     

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"Magic Motorways"  the 1939 cover of Norman Bel Geddes' image book about

future urban planning

     

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Oscar Niemeyer architecture       see full size

     

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inverted views of the 1963 Chrysler Turbine ... 55 of them were built

     

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an inverted view of a running dog by photographer Eadweard Muybridge

... and to our delight,  the old book that this came from had the

image accidentally reversed       see full size

     

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 a Bernie Fuchs illustration

     

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"Premium and Discount"    a George Cruikshank cartoon, 1842

     

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the Canada pavilion at Expo in 1967 Montreal was an inverted pyramid

... Moot Point was up there in '67

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a 1930 streamline-style love seat by designer Warren McArthur

     

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"Certainly. What kind of favor?"  a 1962 cartoon from an art school publication

... one of the common comedy formulas is understatement

     

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1922 wallpaper,  Germany

     

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a René Magritte painting

     

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"Reverse Censorship Comics!"  a National Lampoon 

magazine cartoon, 1972       see full size

    

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1970s PEZ candies

     

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an F.P. Glasemann 1903 paper cut       see full size

     

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Joe Kubert comic book cover art, 1969

     

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"Things we have never seen - An opulent artist discovering an obscure and

neglected art critic"   a George Morrow cartoon, 1911       see full size 

       

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 1972

     

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a Frank Paton cartoon, 1883       see full size

     

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1951 linoleum

     

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upside down sign  "I am blind"       a Roy Delgado cartoon

     

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Harvey Comics,  Little Dot

     

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MAD Magazine,  1956       see full size

            

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 a Rorschach inkblot ... what do you see in this psychological test? 

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Public TRANSIT in art . . .

a Franz Masereel print

       

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  "Sightsee London"    an Abram Games poster,  1968       
       

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early railway passengers in 1831       see full size

"Liverpool and Manchester Railway - first class, 1830"
"Liverpool and Manchester Railway - second and third class, 1831"
      
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an Edward Penfield illustration, 1890       see full size
        
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an L. Raven Hill illustration
           
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a print by Anders Zorn ... the interior of a city omnibus,  1892
    
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an Edward Leon Cortes painting,  1910?       see full size
         
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Franz Wacik       after the carnival
         
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a print by Otto Heinrich Strohmeyer,  1925       see full size
       
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1935       see full size

     

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a John Lockwood Kipling illustration       see full size
     
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 the 1904 New York subway,  under construction       see full size
         
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a 1920s subway escalator
         
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a 1924 British subway poster by Austin Cooper
"It is cooler down below.  Travel in comfort by Underground"
           
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1912 Germany  
             
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 this 1913 German public transit existed       see full size
     
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a 1917 Frederick Henry Townsend cartoon    "Please move back a little more!"
     
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a 1927 train station by E.A. Verpilleux       see full size
        
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a 1928 cartoon
     
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a 1930 print by Martin Lewis ... 'Subway steps'
 
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a 1934 print by Cyril Power ... 'The Sunshine Roof'       see full size

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an Antonio Petruccelli illustration       see full size
 
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 this 1870 pneumatic passenger car with 22 seats existed and operated in New York
  
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1954 London subway seat fabric
      
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 an 1864 cartoon       see full size
"It's not the getting in . . . but it's the getting out"
      
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a 'Greyhound Escorter' illustrated by Bob Peak ...
these were used at the 1964 NY World's fair       see full size
  
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a 1980s cartoon    "the bus"
    
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a 1987 Nick Hardcastle illustrated ad for the London subway
 
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a Drew Friedman comic about wrestler Tor Johnson  "Time for Tor to go on subway"    "Tor having fun on subway"