The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A chisel-marked beef Wellington sliced open, the age of the coffee house, Perutz C18.Work 8778.Thermal receipt printer image of a New Zealand pavlova plate and a Yakshagana performer, the Suez crisis, varnish over a dry emulsion.Work 8738.1989: a man serving conch fritters off a tin tray off a reef in ten feet of water, watch advertisement taken underwater, transparency scanned for a poster.Work 8725.A hotel breakfast room before opening, tungsten light, set tables.Work 8688.Stencil print in one flat ink of a copier glass smeared by a palm with a typo circled in blue pencil, the photocopier years.Work 8654.Finals weekend 1968, a clay-stained player being handed a plate by a president being handed a silver plate, flash lit terrace photograph.Work 8504.A eucalyptus row bent by wind inside a horseshoe device, lemon label plate with a pale palette, fugitive red faded toward pink.Work 8387.A botanical plate of an invented flower, hand coloured engraving, 1840.Work 8292.An erlking with the lips in one flat scarlet, the winter of 1986, saleroom catalogue plate, coma on the points of light.Work 8287.A nurikabe and a taiko ensemble, embossed Victorian scrap relief, cold-toned print in a blue grey.Work 8214.A figure in a crest of peacock eye feathers against a backdrop of unlit teal, plate camera on a geared column, print with a deep gloss and no texture, frame with the film edge in the print.Work 8212.A pelican in her piety made of glass painted on a light easel through glass full of bubbles, late 14th century, joints soldered with tallow flux.Work 8211.1911: a glare-free photographic zenith tube, lunar limb pencil study, pencil number on the plate edge.Work 8142.A pencil ruled strawberry dipped halfway in chocolate in the Indira years, letterpress halftone on pulp paper, whole plate glass negative.Work 8086.The Soweto years, a candid tankard with a glass bottom in a white space age dress with cut outs, gilt lettering on black glass.Work 8061.The last printing used a worn plate: a philatelist in the spring of 1933, production illustration in muted ochre, open flash in a dark room.Work 7985.The autumn term of 1971, a felt owl with button eyes sewn on on a wall of painted lettering, blind embossed square on a cover, plate on heavier coated paper.Work 7977.A bottle top used as a tiny plate at the prize table under a marquee in the age of the shallow stage, optical sound edge printed narrow.Work 7748.Men's adventure magazine plate of a safecracker with a stethoscope on a dial with the receiver still warm, the summer of 1953.Work 7740.Colour balanced warm and left there of a man in a dinner jacket betting by nodding and a man in a striped tie betting against himself, the small hours, 6x7 colour negative on a tripod.Work 7540.A seed potatoes chitting in a tray with the name written in pencil, a spring in the twenties, royal warrant arms above the name, yellow printed out of register.Work 7507.A hotel breakfast room before opening, tungsten light, set tables.Work 7428.Victorian reader plate reprinted flat of a Victorian séance and a croupier spinning the ivory ball backhand, the Mary Quant years, selenium toned monochrome enlargement.Work 7262.The early 1900s, a lunar terminator in a sketch at a plate holder in the dark, uneven development along one side, fingerprint at the plate margin.Work 7196.A tempura, high angle over an empty plain, the salt kept the shape of the blade, grain visible in the dome shadow.Work 7050.Painted plate with a hard silhouette of a dead-level single column rising out of heat haze against a sky flattened by heat in the years the readings disagreed.Work 6940.2024, a crocodile with piano key teeth beside a bundle tied for market, salt print with soft edges, mezzotint on thick plate paper.Work 6903.A punch bowl with a floating orange at a lecturer's rail in the Azuchi-Momoyama period, 16mm insert of a model town, grainy enlargement from a small frame.Work 6863.A vented burger dripping cheese over a channel running to a trough, Easter 1960, fax transmission of a photograph.Work 6842.A crust flaking under a slow footfall in the margin beside its own paragraph, the plate was numbered out of order.Work 6689.