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a mystery box holds all of this weeks topic, which is of course . . .

     

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a fountain at the 1970 World's Fair in Japan
     

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a housing concept by Herbert Bayer

     

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"please notice"       an advertising graphic from 1873       see full size

    

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an Art Sussman book cover illustration, 1956       see full size

     

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a Josef Hoffmann chair, 1910 ... many cubes are arranged into an

almost-cube,  supported on a flattened cube  (or 'sheet'

as the squares say)       see full size

     

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a 1945 clear-gaze transparent look-&-pick easy-glance quick-see full-view peek-a-boo lucite cube
     

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a Yayoi Kusama art installation       see full size

       

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a Rupert Spira mozaic, 1990s
           

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"Stories From The Future"  an Eppo Doeve book cover illustration, 1960

     

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a 1908 'cuboid'   (irregular cube)

      

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this 1970 Sony radio closed into a cube

       

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"Garbage Pail Kids - Trish Squish"   parents disapproved, but kids loved them
      

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a yellow cube house in  Japan,  1973?       see full size
      

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an inexpensive box camera, 1915?  it used very large film,  but the lens was low-budget ... pull tabs set the shutter speed and aperture ... little frosted viewfinder windows looked like

tiny moving television screens
      

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"Square and Cube Root Blocks"      an 1879 teaching aid
     

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this 'anamorphosis' photograph is real ... in person we would

see the same effect       see full size
     

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a Robert Williams painting       see full size
        

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1968 architecture
     

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brutalist architecture ... or smelly trash cube?
     

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Montreal's brutalist style 1967 'Habitat'       see full size
     

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part of the French pavilion at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair 

see full size
      

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an 1899 electric kitchen oven
           

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a Herbert Leupin 1942 poster       see full size
     

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a Charles Rennie Mackintosh clock, 1910?
     

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Rik Smits art       see full size
          

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in 1958,  many homes regarded television as a modern vulgarity,

to be concealed when not in use 
          

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a Tower Snappy camera, 1965 ... the plastic camera had no settings and could only photograph and advance the film roll ... the plastic viewfinder was not aligned,  and the plastic lens itself was distorted ... yet the photographs were magic to a child

       

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a Josef Jeggle design for a store interior, 1904     see full size
    

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a Goro Shimaoka 1983 realism painting