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Venice in Bloom A new book of photographs by Marco Valmarana takes readers inside the Floating City’s secret gardens
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Roots of Evil
One morning, around the year 1900, the Austrian artist Alfred Kubin sat down at his desk in Munich and pondered what to draw that day. Picking up his pen and a small piece of paper roughly five by seven inches, he sketched the figure of a naked, emaciated man, his hands tied behind his back. The man is suspended horizontally like a hammock, with his feet tied to the top of a pole while his head is held aloft by a stake through his mouth. A fire burns beneath him, scorching his belly black. Satisfied, Kubin titled the picture Torture. READ ON
The Large Head, by Alfred Kubin, 1899.
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