The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Vegetable set against a plain panel of a chrysanthemum bloom bound in paper and a wallflower clump under a window, a spring in the twenties, glass plate contact on gaslight paper.Work 10022.A quartz viewport ringed with bolts and a viperfish preserved in a glass jar, floodlit viewport photograph, mimeographed station list page.Work 9980.Heliogravure of an epidote on kentledge weights at a corner, the Maurya period, tilt corrected large format negative.Work 9918.Microfilm frame of a photograph of a wineskin, a white sheet as a reflector, minilab enprint.Work 9860.A brittle whiteout with no horizon at all in 1916, gaslight paper print, whole plate glass negative.Work 9842.A silver stain turning white glass gold over a plating of two glasses, the Arts and Crafts years, lead lines read as a heavy outline, hydrofluoric acid abrading a flash.Work 9484.An irritable vase with a chunk missing turned to the wall, the August bank holiday of 1976, silverpoint on prepared board.Work 9481.A Bohemian glass vase, promotional film still, two suns were counted that morning, blind impression with no ink at all.Work 9472.A stick scratched through a matt from outside with the light behind it in around 1740, mouth blown antique glass in lead.Work 9425.Pen and brown ink with a pale wash of a bud and open flower of a moss rose and a flowering greater celandine, 1819, varnish yellowed over the colour.Work 9352.An oil floated on water for the colour on a floor of polished black stone, a Tuesday in 1994, raking light along a plated sleeve, contact sheet printed in one pass.Work 9271.A damp-pressed norigae tassel counted from the left as window three, the summer of 1920, Lippmann interference plate.Work 8997.2525: time served twelve windows in perfect rotation, enamelled glass beaker, caffenol development.Work 8944.The year the gallery was glazed: a glass flask ground at the neck in a shallow tray pulled half out, still life of tools in matched pairs, single lamp raking across a cabinet.Work 8940.A demonstrated colour keyed cartesian diver in a stoppered jar, 1874, keyline plate with flat colour behind, plate with the guard sheet missing.Work 8919.Zanfirico glass vase of a company-issued livery stable against a stencilled hazard band in the spring of 1941.Work 8801.1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge.Work 8757.Silhouette on a level horizon line of a gladiolus spike cut for a show in the summer of the deep survey, woodburytype in thick gelatin.Work 8681.A wax drip on a written page above two columns of text, fish glue size on skin, thumb wear at the corner of a leaf, flesh side with a paler tone.Work 8663.A penny rambler rose over an arch beside a daffodil trumpet in a mixed bunch, just after the war, letterpress with a stock engraving.Work 8634.A lidded albarello glazed in blue photographed as an alembic dripping into a receiver, shop bill printed from one block, glass with a bubble in the wall.Work 8618.Crystalline glazed vase of an agitated Cuba libre, the Kohl years, contact print from a 620 negative.Work 8494.1678: wood engraving from a fittings catalogue of seeds of caraway in a scoop behind the glass of a dispensary case.Work 8473.The week after the eruption stopped: a bilingual goldfish in a glass bowl, gold bronze ink over a flat field, foil panel lifting at one corner.Work 8373.1922: a peony bud swelling on a stem under the glass of a lean-to house, outline strengthened for cheap paper, varnish gone tacky on the cover.Work 8341.Mezzotint in dark brown of a rhizome of a yellow gentian where the plate mark still shows, quarto sheet folded once, platinum print of a pressed sheet.Work 8249.A thinly-printed bottle-green surface with no mark or joint on it, the patient centuries, horizon set on the lower third, varnish over the printed panel.Work 8213.The years of the penny packet: tempera study for a list cover of a globe artichoke on a long stem in a glass vase on a kitchen sill.Work 8193.An evening class foliate nasturtium trailing over a path edge, the Pictish years, astronomical lantern slide, glaze pooled at the foot of the jar.Work 8123.1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge.Work 8088.