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"Seeing is like hunting and like dreaming, and even like falling in love. Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism. It alters the thing that is seen and transforms the seer." - James Elkins

[cupofmeat]

Khmer lime pot in the shape of a cat.

[anamon-book]

おとなぴあ 2000年6月号 ぴあ株式会社 Cover illustration＝山本容子「エリック・サティ」 特集「大人のロック図鑑」

[cupofmeat]

Untitled, Nicolas Burrows. Linocut.

[cma-korean-art]

Mask of an Elder, 1600s, Cleveland Museum of Art: Korean Art

Size: Mask: 20.3 x 6.1 cm (8 x 2 3/8 in.) Medium: wood with horsehair

https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.103

[cma-chinese-art]

Gong, 1644-1911, Cleveland Museum of Art: Chinese Art

Size: Overall: 25.4 cm (10 in.) Medium: jade

https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1197

[met-asian]

Finial in the Form of an Apsara, ca. 12th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Asian Art

Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Ex Coll.: Columbia University, Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Uzi Zucker Gift and Rogers Fund, 1987 Size: H. 4 15/16 in. (12.5 cm) Medium: Bronze

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/37429

[cma-japanese-art]

Koma-inu: Guardian Lion-Dog, 1185-1333, Cleveland Museum of Art: Japanese Art

Placed at the entrance to shrines and temples in Japan, lion-like guardian figures warded off evil spirits. These lion-dogs are distinguishable by their faces: one looks fierce, mouth closed, while the other seems mid-roar, mouth agape. The idea of guardian-lions likely came to Japan from China via Korea, giving rise to the name koma-inu meaning “Korean dog.” Size: Overall: 49.6 cm (19 ½ in.) Medium: wood with traces of polychromy

https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.351.2

[bm-asian-art]

Beauty, Gion Seitoku, early 19th century, Brooklyn Museum: Asian Art

Size: Image: 22 3/8 x 15 7/8 in. (56.8 x 40.3 cm) Mount: 53 ¼ x 20 7/8 in. (135.3 x 53 cm) Width with scroll end: 22 7/8 in. (58.1 cm) Medium: Hanging scroll, ink, color, gofun, and mica on paper

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/167194

[cupofmeat]

[cma-japanese-art]

Haniwa in the Form of a Shield, c. 500, Cleveland Museum of Art: Japanese Art

Haniwa (clay cylinders) topped with the form of a shield, or with a shield and quiver of arrows, appear on some tomb mounds called kofun (old mounds). There are also warriors holding a shield, their heads peeping out over the tops, or diagonally across their bodies. There are even some haniwa with a warrior’s helmet sitting at the top of the cylinder above the shield. This unusual object has a shield and quiver on the front, and the face of a warrior wearing a helmet on the reverse. Size: Overall: 120 x 48.7 x 18 cm (47 ¼ x 19 3/16 x 7 1/16 in.) Medium: Earthenware with applied, cut, and incised designs and red slip

https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.170

[harvard-art-museums-photography]

Untitled (government telephones with many buttons), Jack Gould, c. 1950, Harvard Art Museums: Photographs

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, American Professional Photographers Collection Size: 6 x 6 cm (2 3/8 x 2 3/8 in.)

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/319787

[bm-islamic-art]

View of Petra, 19th century, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of the Islamic World

Size: 9 3/8 x 7 5/16 in. (23.8 x 18.6 cm) Medium: Albumen silver photograph

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/114686

[met-egyptian-art]

Female Musicians, Charles K. Wilkinson, A.D. 1921–1922; original ca. 1400–1390 B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Egyptian Art

Rogers Fund, 1930 Size: facsimile: H. 41 16 1/8 in.); W. 64.8 cm (25 ½ in.), scale 1:1 framed: 42.9 (16 7/8 in.); W. 66.7 cm (26 ¼ in.) Medium: Tempera on paper

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/557727

[mia-asian-art]

Pair of Theatrical Boots, 19th century, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Chinese, South and Southeast Asian Art

Boots, pair, of pale lavendar silk, uppers and blue silk vamp satin, embroidered with dragons, bats and clouds in couched silver threads. Brass studs, animals have staring green glass eyes. Built up leather platform soles painted white on edges. to accompany costume 42.8.107. Size: 28 5/8 x 22 ¾ (length of sole) in. (72.7 x 57.8 cm) Medium: Silk,leather,metal thread,brass,glass

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/16864/

[met-european-sculpture]

Teapot, Whieldon type, 1750–65, Metropolitan Museum of Art: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Rogers Fund, 1914 Size: Overall: 5 1/8 × 7 in. (13 × 17.8 cm) Medium: Agateware (glazed earthenware)

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/192908

[met-africa-oceania]

Nose Ornament, 2nd–6th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Jan Mitchell and Sons Collection, Gift of Jan Mitchell, 1991 Size: H. 3 3/8 × W. 4 3/8 × D. ¼ in. (8.6 × 11.1 × 0.6 cm) Medium: Gold

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/316419

[moma-photography]

Almstadtstrasse 43, Berlin (1930), Shimon Attie, 1991, MoMA: Photography

The Family of Man Fund Size: 17 15/16 × 22 3/16" (45.6 × 56.4 cm) Medium: Chromogenic color print

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/44686