“Knees are calloused from the worship of other gods.” Gods including gold, fashion, ambition and self, but mainly gold.
The devil of to-day. 1906.
“Knees are calloused from the worship of other gods.” Gods including gold, fashion, ambition and self, but mainly gold.
The devil of to-day. 1906.
Foreign Correspondent. 1964. Boris Artzybasheff. Scientific American. November 1993.
On another world, as WW I grinds on, a reporter interviews an expert on humans - “In your opinion, Professor Rxrrmt…which will prevail on earth, people or fire?” La Baionnette. November 7, 1918. In the issue titled, “The war seen from other planets.”
Dancing couple. La Lune. March 1867. Satiric magazine cover.
Winter. After an old Italian engraving. Histoire de la caricature sous la réforme et la ligue-Louis XIII à Louis XVI. 1880.
Sauna. Vanity Fair. May 2007. Anita Kunz, artist.
The gods of war issue. La bayonnette. January 3, 1918.
A demon pounds a wedge into a man’s skull while its companions practice similar forms of torture. George Cruikshank. The Headache. 1819. Hand-colored etching, detail.
“Bolshevik carnival in Spain.” A Nazi cartoon during the Spanish Civil War mocks a Russian soldier for dancing with a figure of death, portrayed as a Spanish woman dressed in red for Mardi Gras.
Das Narrenschiff. February 6-12, 1937. Gallica.
Foreign Correspondent. 1964. Boris Artzybasheff. Scientific American. November 1993.
A pair of scissors transforms into a ballet dancer. One of a series satirizing Darwinism. Evolution of household articles, animals etc. 187-?
A man with with mustache sprouts from a potted palm. Wasp. October 11, 1890.
“Capone for President.” Americana. July 1932.
“The most famous products of the United States are Mark Twain and skyscrapers.” The Simple jography, or, How to know the earth and why it spins. 1908.
A moon being comes up with an explanation for the flames consuming the earth. “It is for me, great fires lit by the earthlings to delay the cooling of their planet.”
La Baionnette. November 7, 1918. From an issue devoted to the view of WW I from other planets.