The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A cut vine of a hop with fruit and a bur of a sweet chestnut split open on a page with a tissue guard, the last years of the copperplate, flower in colour and root in line.Work 6899.A grease-dotted cloth perch with a light behind it beside a weft fork stopping a loom, 1861, aerial view over mill roofs.Work 6764.A rubber mask stretched over a skull form in the style of an armature stripped of its rubber in a vice on the armature bench, a cold studio winter of 1966.Work 6738.Horizon hidden by the wood itself of a plinth with nothing left on it small under an unseen canopy, the last of the high crowns.Work 6717.A type case with sorted sorts beside one object in a case in the Ulm years, Bauhaus typographic poster, sewn signatures in a plain case.Work 6664.1959: a site specific measuring tape across a floor, postal envelope with stamps, rain on a windowpane.Work 6597.The filter tip years: an expensive looking martini with two olives on a pick, progressive proof sheet, hand spotted dust on a print.Work 6552.The year the archive forgot: a Russian wedding bread and salt in a best room kept for visitors, Ghiordes knot rug, Kodak Portra 800.Work 6468.Paperback book cover plate of an annotated transistor radio in a duty free case in a motel conference room in the year the reef was still clear.Work 6412.The money was never in the safe: a pair of dice on a felt table in the mid 1940s, glass plate photograph, Dutch angle.Work 6201.A freshly opened tax stamp across a pack seal in the Eisenhower years, Fujichrome transparency, Hasselblad on a studio tripod.Work 5844.A blackmailed coroner table under a lamp on a fire escape in the rain, 1949, street photograph.Work 5801.A hand-painted beach towel drying on gravel, the long summer of 1977, Curt Teich postcard, shot from a second floor walkway.Work 5717.A tea towel with a map of a county, stone letter cutting, crumpled, Cinestill 800T.Work 5673.A great auk and a welding mask in the Inca empire, maki-e lacquer.Work 5646.Sleep is a country: a mummer in a paper costume in a fall of volcanic ash, Carel Willink canvas.Work 5617.A monastic serene sounding rocket, 1990s, 16k.Work 5452.Where the echo lives: a kiddush cup in a tenement, Segantini alpine painting.Work 5364.A variety show, Flemish verdure tapestry, pre-war, colour reversal film.Work 5326.A sea green cable-knit platypus as a customs officer, Ethiopian manuscript, the saints are closed for lunch, buttery light.Work 5234.A message from the management: a roman centurion in a farmhouse, Nebuta festival float.Work 5162.A terre verte Rolodex that runs on coal, Adriaen Coorte still life, khaki palette.Work 5103.A tusked nesting Zeppelin, Mannerist portrait, a hush the colour of milk, glint on chrome.Work 5083.A blue ice made of marionette puppeteer above a stage, pot-bellied, Howard Pyle illustration, exposed for the shadows.Work 5059.A deer as a ballet teacher folded into a swan on a Tuesday in 1911, highly detailed, cinematic composition.Work 5030.A saddled damselfly with moth wings, medieval tapestry, low contrast.Work 4944.A maypole, alchemical diagram, lichen-covered, hotel carpet palette.Work 4920.A quebecois regulation soap dish shaped like a shell, engraving, hand tinted.Work 4919.A dark, slow motion replay, veiling glare.Work 4918.A tsarist disqualified desiccator, Mysore painting, holy water from a tap, mimeograph.Work 4914.