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fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

May 18-27, 1980 - Kwangju uprising against Chun Doo-hwan’s military coup in South Korea
Artwork by Hong Sung-dam

Don Clotario Blest y Ernesto “Che” Guevara, 1950.

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magrittee:

Adolf Hering - Death and the Maiden

magrittee:

George Clark Stanton - Death and the Maiden

laplaisanterie:

Yukio Mishima 1925-1970
Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, and film director. Mishima is considered one of the most important Japanese authors of the 20th century; His avant-garde work displayed a blending of modern and traditional aesthetics that broke cultural boundaries, with a focus on sexuality, death, and political change. He commited ritual suicide by seppuku in 1970.
Works: Confessions of a Mask, Thirst for Love, Forbidden Colors, The Sound of Waves, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
“Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.”
― Yukio Mishima, Runaway Horses
“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”
― Yukio Mishima

Johan Christian Dahl, Eruption of the Volcano Vesuvius (detail), 1821 (x)

vikingonstilts:

Behind the scenes shot of 2001: Space Odyssey (1968, dir: Stanley Kubrick)

todaysdocument:

“‘Overseer Artayou Carrier whipped me. I was two months in bed sore from the whipping. My master come after I was whipped; he discharged the overseer.’
The very words of poor Peter, taken as he sat for his picture.”
Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 4/2/1863
This 1863 photograph of “Peter,” a former slave displaying scars from his overseer’s whippings, was widely reproduced as evidence of slavery’s cruelty. The image was sometimes paired with a photo or drawing of “Peter” after his enlistment in the U.S. Army. “Peter” was sometimes identified as “Gordon.”
via DocsTeach