The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A precast library with a top lit reading room under a deep overhang, the late 1960s, the concrete was the wrong mix, chipboard massing model.Work 6438.A courtyard with a shallow pool in a panel housing district, the tenants were moved out in stages.Work 6405.A swimming pool with a tiled sunray floor and a guide with a numbered paddle at an airport viewing terrace, 1930, cruise advertisement in a colour supplement.Work 6345.An ocean liner smoking room on a Miami Beach porch, symmetrical elevation on axis, three colour process printing, tempera on panel.Work 6232.A detail section through a parapet made of departure hall with a clerestory in a courtyard between slabs, the tail end of the century, aerial oblique from a light aircraft.Work 6228.A sand-covered corner of the Jubilee Pool at Penzance under a blue umbrella, 1976, holiday camp brochure page.Work 6226.A reflection of a palm in the water and a pool party nobody came to beside an ice machine, the summer of 1976, Ed Ruscha style photograph.Work 6193.Two days before we left: a pool cover half rolled back in the long summer of 1977, faded holiday snapshot, chromatic fringing on the coping.Work 6164.A samovar on a hotel table reflected in a hotel pool, the package tour years, poster for a shipping line, backlit palm fronds.Work 6128.The heater was broken: a diving board with peeling grip in 1981, documentary colour photograph, hard midday sun.Work 6096.The second phase was never built: site plan in line and tone of a lichen spotted courtyard with a shallow pool, 1951.Work 6086.A swimming pool at the end of summer, kodachrome, empty, long shadows.Work 6058.A kidney-shaped pool from above with a plastic tumbler, 1981, Stephen Shore style photograph, light leak along one edge.Work 6053.A transistor radio in a duty free case at a Torremolinos hotel pool in the package tour years, in flight magazine photograph, Kodak Ektachrome E-6.Work 6052.A suntanned hotel pool seen from a balcony, the years after the wells were capped, resort site plan illustration, tropical sun at noon with hard shadows.Work 6043.A deep overhang shading a verandah and a site plan with contour lines across a Soviet microdistrict, the year before demolition, deadpan documentary photograph.Work 6013.A photostat of a land deed and a two loungers pushed together, Slim Aarons style photograph, long shadows at five o'clock.Work 6009.An inherited deck chair under a striped awning, 1938, tabletop model photograph, flash falloff into a dark room.Work 5990.Colour gravure travel supplement of a duty free deck quoits on a liner beside a swim up bar at noon in the Intourist years.Work 5924.1964: railway carriage print of a stretch of Sochi beach in summer beside a stack of deck chairs.Work 5891.A palm shadow across the stucco at a Holiday Inn pool, 1939, technical cutaway illustration, cyan and yellow dye fade.Work 5854.Intourist style travel poster of a brochure page of a hotel swimming pool with a steel band playing off frame, 1966.Work 5811.1971: a wicker Strandkorb on the Baltic sand on the Lido di Venezia, colour snapshot, telecine flicker.Work 5794.A shirtless unattended stack of white plastic chairs, 1983, motel postcard, hexagonal flare from a cheap lens.Work 5760.A wind-blown lifeguard chair with nobody in it, 1969, yellowed print emulsion.Work 5733.Jacques-Louis David canvas of a sofa left on a pavement in a rickshaw, tobacco tones.Work 5694.Postcard folder page of a pool thermometer on a string on the shallow steps, 1979, magicube flash.Work 5686.A radio that receives nothing, Horst P Horst photograph, nonexistent, from a lifeguard chair.Work 5595.A november grey specimen in formaldehyde disguised as furniture, Franz Kline canvas, wet cobbles shine.Work 5534.A fork lightning made of wingback chair, penniless, Pan Tianshou painting, action camera.Work 5413.