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Selection of Polish artist Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz's drug experiments.

Self-Portrait, 1938.

Portrait of Nena Stachurska, 1929. Type “B + d” portrait (a magnifying of character, retaining a prettiness exaggerated towards “demonism”). Caffeine, no alcohol.

Portrait of Maria Nawrocka, 1929. Beer + caffeine.

Portrait of Stefania Tuwimowa. Caffeine, no alcohol.

Portrait of Stefan Glass, 1930.  Smoking.

Self-Portrait, 1918. Type “D” portrait (executed with subjective characterisation, as if under the influence of drugs, but without “recourse to any artificial means.")

Portrait of Nena Stachurska, 1929. Type “C” portrait (under the influence of “narcotics of a superior grade”). Mescaline synthesised by Merck + cocaine + caffeine + cocaine + caffeine + cocaine)

Documenting Drugs: The Artful Intoxications of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

In pursuit of Pure Form, the Polish artist known as “Witkacy” would consume peyote, cocaine, and other intoxicants before creating pastel po

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"Ping-Pong" by Lina Kostenko. Translated by Ellen Poplavska.

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"stress" by yoan capote - made of bronze and concrete

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Yolo Theatre in Woodland, CA.

Built in 1936 and open until 1962, when a fire destroyed the Yolo Theatre. It was never rebuilt.

Source: https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/28649

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Orange Cap drinking set (pitcher and six shot glasses). Design inspired by red cap boletus mushroom. Made at Polonsky Factory of Artistic Ceramics (Polonne, Ukraine) in the 1960s.

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Vintage flapper fashion illustrations (1925-1932) from the Ukrainian women's magazine, Нова хата. Published in Lviv.

Source: Internet Archive.

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Pages from Віночок (vinok), illustrated primer for children on the Ukrainian language.

Author: O. Bilousenko

Published: Prague, 1926

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“Thro.out Greek Style”: a pillar-turned-trash-bin. I’d buy something like that. 

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Smaranda Brăescu, Romanian parachuting Pioneer, Former Multiple World Record Holder (1932)

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Saturn floats. Our Country and Its Resources. 1917.

“Saturn, the lightest of the planets in proportion to its size, would float in water (if there were an ocean big enough to hold it!)”

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Neither Dead nor Sleeping. 1921. Title page.

Internet Archive

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British fungi. 1886. Book cover.

Internet Archive

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Blake Carter. “1,439 of Us”

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“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit — all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.” Brian Eno — A Year With Swollen Appendices, Faber and Faber | 1996

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"Women's World" magazine cover designs by the Organization of Ukrainian Women of Canada. Covers here dating from 1953-1977. Source.