Xu Bing

Exhibited: Xu Bing Tobacco Project: Shanghai (2004)
Shanghai Gallery of Art, China

Materials: Tobacco, found objects

A site-specific continuation of the Tobacco Project series which Xu Bing first began at Duke University in 1999.

Tobacco Project par Xu Bing

shots

(Source : benjaminmontaudrp.blogspot.com)

yajifun:

Body of a courtesan in nine stages of decomposition / Kobayashi Eitaku

九相図　小林永濯　1870年代

“九相図の場面は作品ごとに異なり、九相観を説いている経典でも一定ではない。” wiki-九相図

※図のタイトルはこちらを参考にした。

colinquinn:

Paint a picture of a penis in front of your house to ward off evil bitches.

(Source : )

Muramasa : The Demon Blade

朧村正

(Source : Wikipedia)

yajifun:

eitaku manga / Kobayashi Eitaku

永濯漫画第2集 石山寺（紫式部）　小林永濯　1890年

alfred roller + tanaka kikuo?

(Source : lotusgreenfotos.blogspot.com)

onwardthroughtheramparts:

Sculptural Group (Table Support) of Two Griffins Attacking a Fallen Doe, about 325 - 300 BCE (formerly in the Getty Museum, Malibu—in 2007 it was repatriated to Italy)

(Source : forthememoryofepicurus, via therealmlw)

Thrasher- Leslie  (American- 1889-1936

“Escapade” by Gilbert Bundy From April 30, 1949

The Bauhaus Textiles of Gunta Stölzl & Anni Albers

(Source : rabbit-rock.blogspot.com)

yama-bato:

DOISNEAU - 2178 - La harpe de laine - PARIS 1945

(via therealmlw)

‘Peacock Garden’ wallpaper design by Walter Crane, produced in 1889.

(Source : Flickr / dis-order-ed)

Henrik Krogh. The Spruce Coppice, tapestry, c1913.

(Source : thetextileblog.blogspot.com)

‘The Demon’ wallpaper design by C F A Voysey, produced in 1889. The Textile Blog article relating to this illustration can be found here