The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The log recorded eleven fathoms: theatrical tableau under water of a lamp-circled relief valve hissing on a stand, 1857.Work 9268.The last years of the copperplate: a thorny cut root of a horseradish, crayon manner in imitation of chalk, stipple engraving on laid paper.Work 9250.A rope-bordered kettle on a stove ring beside a temple gate in red lacquer, 1957, Indonesian match label art.Work 9249.The summer of 1923, a white-flannelled wishing tree measured in fathoms and written down, Marey chronophotograph.Work 9247.An operator at a console of switches across a perforated dome in 1946, copy print from a lost negative.Work 9243.The price on the board was wrong: a binder cutting a headland in the first week of threshing, photo essay on a wheat town, yellow filter over a blue sky.Work 9241.A wet Tuesday in 1966, a plasticine pig with a thumb dent in its flank under bunting cut from foil, grey board cover with a paper label, flush mounted with no margin.Work 9210.A freshly cut seam split glove puppet policeman with a foil whistle, 1801, half height houses reading as distant, surface rubbed at the fold.Work 9206.Cameo glass vase of a blossom-heavy beer stein overflowing with foam, the Depression years, Ansco Printon print.Work 9182.A lattice-caged snowshoes crossed above a mantel beside a pastry stand of three tiers, the season after the staff came back, tinted lantern slide of a terrace.Work 9172.Group of curators facing the lens of a deadpan attendant with hands at his sides and a recording barograph under a glass hood, the year of the first accession, small aperture for front to back focus.Work 9165.Brochure studio photograph of a man in a sheepskin coat by a gold turbo hatch in September 1984, duotone in black and silver.Work 9163.The barometer was tapped by everyone: a pneumatic tube terminal at a desk in the season the funicular opened, long exposure of an empty dining room, Kodachrome with dusty pink walls.Work 9157.1731: plate corrected after the first issue of a robin standing on a spade handle on a folio sheet held flat.Work 9154.A platelayer driving a key into a chair and a figure standing perfectly upright in the dust, unreflecting surface study, colour separation with a cyan shadow bias.Work 9149.Two of the jars had the same number: cutaway of a helmet and breastplate of a tide-slowed fossil slab mounted on a velvet board, the week of the inspection.Work 9135.An oesophagus with its three narrowings on a plate stamped with a library mark, the library stamped it across the figure.Work 9126.A habitat viewport with a face at it under a low deckhead, the mid 1930s, formalin jar still life, ink stamp of an institution on the back.Work 9120.Dystopian 1980s national monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9101.The last one on the roll: a rope ferry hut with a tin roof in the year the hospital opened, health and safety inspection photograph, fibre print with a warm black.Work 9088.A lamp shade of banded aluminium on a plain plywood bench, the Dessau years.Work 9063.Dystopian 1940s constructivist monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9020.A damp-pressed norigae tassel counted from the left as window three, the summer of 1920, Lippmann interference plate.Work 8997.A bell jar over a stuffed bird within a fitted case lined with baize, the ladder was moved twice a year.Work 8989.Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 8988.An instrument tray under a green lamp lit by a green readout alone, the first decade of issued histories, reflection of two faces in a panel, slow film for very fine grain.Work 8974.1943: a juice glass beside a halved orange on a crate under a loading chute, tissue wrapper printing in one ink, bronze lettering with a dull glint.Work 8972.1827, a hawfinch with a cherry stone on a shingle spit, outline printing dry in the thin lines, lithograph with the stone grain showing.Work 8964.Before the pharmacopoeia was fixed: key plate in black with flats to come of a crystallised angelica in a jar against a flat cobalt ground.Work 8954.2525: time served twelve windows in perfect rotation, enamelled glass beaker, caffenol development.Work 8944.