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Neil Young, “Heart of Gold” live in 1971.

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There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness, and truth are absent.

Tolstoy, War and Peace

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National Geographic January 1976

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Set design by Margherita Palli

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Rose Castle

Joseph Cornell, 1945 

(on view at the Whitney Museum)

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Still from The Grand Budapest Hotel

dir. Wes Anderson, 2014

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Gladys Deacon

Giovanni Boldini, 1901

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Design for the People’s Commisariat for Construction and Heavy Industry, Red Square, Moscow

Ivan Leonidov, 1934

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#0866

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We know the danger inherent in schools. As long as the designer deals only with a sheet of paper, his main driving force will be diligence, competition, and the record performance for which he fights with his school colleagues. This alone can only lead to a new academicism, isolated from life.

El Lissitzky, “Schools of Architecture,” 1929.

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Faces

Pavel Filonov, 1940

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Flowers of the Universal Flowering

Pavel Filonov, 1916

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The planned city of La Plata, the capital city of the Province of Buenos Aires, is characterized by its strict grid pattern. At the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris, the new city was awarded two gold medals for the “City of the Future” and “Better performance built.”

La Plata Buenos, Aires, Argentina 34°55′16″S 57°57′16″W www.dailyoverview.nyc

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Gustave Courbet, After the Storm 1872

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Composition with Three Male Figures (Self Portrait)

Egon Schiele, 1911

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Chrysler Building

William Van Alen, 1930

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Normandie poster

Cassandre, 1935

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Pat Steir The Wave-From the Sea-After Leonardo, Hokusai, and Courbet, 1985 Color aquatint with soft ground and hard ground etching, drypoint and soap ground aquatint Image Size:36x45" Paper Size:43x54" Edition Size: 50 Publisher: Crown Point Press Printer: Hidekatsu Takada