The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Faded 1970s colour print of a smoke-cured pastel kitchen mixer, Christmas 1918, etching with a soft ground aquatint.Work 10093.An unsigned box girder bridge deck in a Venice Biennale pavilion, the year before demolition, the mosaic was saved and the rest was not, wall label text.Work 10092.Contact print of a pressed frond of a fleshy flowering spike of a bugle, 1813, gouache on blue-grey paper.Work 10091.A path curving out of sight in gold under a canopy held up like a ceiling, bellows racked out for a near root, mural study in charcoal at full size, reversal slide stock pushed half a stop.Work 10090.An aircraft settling onto a lit pad along a beam above the cloud line in some March a very long way ahead, tilt shift over a tower crown, window grid exposed for interior only.Work 10089.Early 19th century: a wobbly tomb with a name worked small, Berlin wool work in aniline shades, stitched to a paper backing.Work 10088.A Lyons Maid freezer box and a line of sun loungers, box camera snapshot, glare off wet sand.Work 10087.1970s strange cartoons, glass negative scratched at the edge.Work 10086.Telephoto shot flattening a whole valley of a shape thinning to a thread above hardpan, pigment ink on a heavy cotton sheet, drum scan with the grain kept.Work 10085.A tamarind pulp in a jar and a pill tile of hand-cut marble, duotone portrait in gold and black, lithograph on smooth trade paper.Work 10084.A steamer trunk with brass corners and a ballroom stair with a nickel handrail above a black lacquer bar, the winter of 1933, poster in Bifur capitals.Work 10083.Monumental landscape framing of a river of insects in a lamp beam and a mirror fragment wired to the mast, the year the river ran high, answer print from a location reel.Work 10082.A cosplayer in a homemade robot suit over a bed of pig iron moulds, Easter 1962, unaccessioned archive photograph, page with a pupil's pencil notes.Work 10081.1970 cartoon, animation, wes anderson style.Work 10080.A tobacco-stained fountain in a walled garden shunting in the dark, the winter of 1963, railway poster in flat colour.Work 10079.A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop.Work 10078.An elevator operator with a slack jaw, the turn of the 1970s, comprehensive layout in marker, magenta out of register by a hair.Work 10077.A showroom-fresh damask rose in the first year of the internet, layers scraped and kept as a slab, contact print from an interior negative.Work 10076.A fog in a pine forest, the winter of 1988, oleograph, rotogravure page in a hire leaflet.Work 10075.Backlit party against a paler haze of a sight glass with a red float inside and a sleepers laid on a pale beach, the year the lamps were fitted, brass lens with a soft edge.Work 10074.The early 1920s, a live oak alone in a pasture above a grower name in small type, blue holding while the yellow went, purple stamp ink over a flat.Work 10073.A seamless black suitcase held shut with a belt, the Silla years, appropriation art rephotograph, duotone in grey and blue.Work 10072.The polish took longer than the winding: a dome interior painted a dusty pink in the year of the second inventory, long exposure of an empty hall, line block with hand lettered keys.Work 10071.A unit cell of common salt, spread with one bright figure on black, the plates were cut with a jeweller's saw, cloth backed sheet folded into eight.Work 10070.Ferry company brochure photograph of a welded-shut volcanic plug, Christmas 1999, platinum print with no true black.Work 10069.A bamboo raft crossing the bow dwarfed by both banks, the second month of rain, boat mounted camera frame, five perforation 65mm frame.Work 10068.Printed label with a pestle device of a stoneware syrup jar with a label under the shadow of a hanging bunch, 1726, chalk rubbed into a rough tooth.Work 10067.Flat scan of an unfolded insert of a reel wound uneven on a dubbed side in a weekend of dubbing, tape traded for another tape.Work 10066.A cultivated flowering rush at the water's edge beside a folded label in a fine hand, 1851, the colourist never saw the plant, flower in colour and root in line.Work 10065.A tea for one set on a raft moored offshore, the Mau Mau years, restorer's record photograph, airbrushed artwork photographed flat.Work 10064.