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Mousse Magazine - issue 37 - February - March 2013

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Wolfgang Tillman’s, The State We’re In, A, 2015.

Unframed inkjet print, 273 x 410 cm.

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Folklig Idrott

Danilo Nubioli,

Arte di Toscanini

1966

robert smithson asphalt rundown.

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Fernsehgalerie Berlin Gerry Schum, Land Art.

Sendung 15. April

Charles and Ray Eames sitting on their LA CHAISE with various staff members, circa 1950, in advance of MOMA's Low Cost Furniture competition.

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English Mechanic 1870. Engraved woodcut from The English Mechanic & Mirror of Science 1870. An English weekly illustrated magazine for amateur and professional mechanics, and for those with an interest in engineering and science. Published from the office at Tavistock Street, London. Half leather bound annual collection 625 pages 33cm x 22cm.

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Piero Golia, The painter (2016)

Motion control robot, paint, canvas.

Head of a Man Wearing a Cap or Helmet, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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anish kapoor

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Made nearly two million years ago, stone tools such as this are the first known technological invention. This one is the oldest objects in the British Museum.

It comes from an early human campsite in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. This and other tools are scientifically dated to about 1.8 million years ago.

Using another hard stone as a hammer, the maker has knocked flakes off both sides of a basalt (volcanic lava) pebble so that they intersect to form a sharp edge. This could be used to chop branches from trees, cut meat from large animals or smash bones for marrow fat – an essential part of the early human diet. The flakes could also have been used as small knives for light-duty tasks.

To some people this artefact might appear crude; how can we even be certain that it is humanly made and not just bashed in rock falls or by trampling animals?

A close look reveals that the edge is formed by a deliberate sequence of skilfully placed blows of more or less uniform force. Many objects of the same type, made in the same way, occur in groups called assemblages which are occasionally associated with early human remains. By contrast, natural forces strike randomly and with variable force; no pattern, purpose or uniformity can be seen in the modifications they cause.

Chopping tools and flakes from the earliest African sites were referred to as Oldowan by the archaeologist Louis Leakey. He found this example on his first expedition to Olduvai in 1931, when he was sponsored by the British Museum.

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