The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A brass cap unscrewed and set beside a pipe photographed as a tape shell with a hand-written label, atmospheric wide shot with a small figure, printed on the reverse of a till receipt.Work 9858.A bilingual pipe resting on a tobacco tin beside a match count in figures, the late 1950s, nobody kept the boxes only the labels, Czech matchbox label art.Work 9740.The summer of the long-arm stapler: a cavern-like tin of dope with a stencilled label, flash-lit copy of a pinned-up page, woodburytype in relief gelatin.Work 9538.A soda lime canister in a cradle in a survey leg at night, hand tinting over a monochrome print, echo trace inked on wet paper, Tri-X at the limit of the flash.Work 9245.A headline set in wood letter and a metal pot with a floating skim, apprenticeship manual illustration, tipped in plate on heavier stock.Work 9056.A haze-greyed silt shelf built up against a base in the long wet age, cyanotype in a deep slate blue, pigment print on cotton paper.Work 8814.Group portrait on a clubhouse step of a faultless man in whites holding two rackets and a drink, 1979, 6x4.5 rollfilm colour.Work 8785.A bin lid tiled across a grid numbered by hand in the margin, a signed edition, comic advertisement page illustration, ink bleeding under the stencil.Work 8736.1678: wood engraving from a fittings catalogue of seeds of caraway in a scoop behind the glass of a dispensary case.Work 8473.An antirrhinum spike in a hot colour in the dark of a shuttered shop, the years of the poison book, vegetable set against a plain panel, dot screen coarse enough to count.Work 8303.Tripod plate at a small aperture of a brush laid across a paste pot rim in the week of the inspection, photogravure plate in a portfolio.Work 8246.1911: a glare-free photographic zenith tube, lunar limb pencil study, pencil number on the plate edge.Work 8142.Czech matchbox label art of a cigar band on a rolled leaf in the post-war export years, strike grit shedding at an edge.Work 8085.The years of the poison book: tin glaze crazed across the letters of a bundle of valerian root tied with twine on a bare board floor.Work 8082.A figure in profile with a raised arm, overprint of red over black halftone, the press was hand-fed, uncoated stock with a rough tooth.Work 7934.A cheaply repeated soup tin repeated in six clashing colourways beside a rocket tiled in green and pink, the second pull, repeat print with every cell recoloured.Work 7660.Quirky 1950s cartoon, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7336.An acrid flake of white arsenic in a phial hung from a beam to dry, before the pharmacopoeia was fixed, transfer printed lettering on tin glaze.Work 7074.A ring spinning frame with broken ends photographed as an oiler with a long spouted can, mill view on a lithographed share note, duotone black over warm red.Work 6945.Square format snapshot of a bottle of Coppertone with the paint coming off, 1974.Work 5981.Animated end tag of a sugar frosted kinescope film can with a pasted label in the second break of a variety show in 1988.Work 5804.A sponsor approved checkout girl passing a box over beside a stack of pancakes taking syrup, the early 1960s, U-matic dub of a commercial.Work 5776.A landfill site in the style of a Voyager golden record, camera shake.Work 5493.A dog licence made of sauerkraut jar, spherical, risograph print, limited palette.Work 5417.A beached cheese grater holding a small umbrella, found object sculpture, mint and peach.Work 5082.1980s toy commercial of a tobacco pouch inside a sardine tin, natural light.Work 5038.Csontvary canvas of a tin of shortbread in a fever dream, council estate grey.Work 4414.A film with no dialogue made of concert ticket stub, prickly, egg box, green monochrome.Work 4408.A burl seen from inside a fridge in an asylum, the pressure before a sneeze, Alessandro Magnasco canvas, nineties grunge colour.Work 3600.A cactus in a snowstorm in the style of a pressure cooker letting off steam, shadow swallowing a face.Work 3454.