The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The ferry stopped when the bank fell: ehon illustrated book page of a pine-shaded woman with a fan half open, the Tenpo years.Work 10167.A salt-stiffened indigo-dyed signboard bleached past reading, the middle of a hundred year drought, architectural scale applied to a person, acrylic on a primed panel.Work 9608.Still from a resort advertising film of a man in aviators asleep with a book on his face and a man in a yellow shirt hailing a water taxi, the summer nobody went home.Work 9552.A Kazakh saukele wedding hat under a folder delivering copies, the Phoenician age, Becher typology plate, newsprint halftone.Work 9276.Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, monsters and heros, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy.Work 8715.A lichen-ringed cool-shaded frieze of figures under green haze, the month of the flower offerings, 70mm temple sequence still, warm filter on grey stone.Work 8625.A man in braces waving a rolled newspaper, caricature illustration in flat colour, he traded in the same shirt all week, newsprint halftone at 65 lines.Work 8470.Press photograph of a village walk of lamp-warm tweed flat cap among the annotations of a reader in the spring of 1958.Work 8222.A spark-bright struck match with a yellow flame in a fiftieth anniversary year, embossed brand word in the paper, flat colour with no screen at all.Work 7684.Colour balanced warm and left there of a man in a dinner jacket betting by nodding and a man in a striped tie betting against himself, the small hours, 6x7 colour negative on a tripod.Work 7540.Photomontage with cut halftone of a caliper measuring a steel shaft in the newspaper kiosk years, ink starved at the top of a run.Work 7451.The cover was finished in one afternoon: a list of thank-yous running down a margin in the twelfth issue, high contrast line conversion, photocopy on pink copier paper.Work 7343.Four-colour newsprint comic panel of a forkful of spaghetti in red dots with a pink hotel sign overhead, the year the marina filled up.Work 6708.1965: a ring binder of typed pages in a seminar room, site photograph with a scale figure, Kodak Plus-X print.Work 6296.Nobody says why they came: a soldier checking papers in 1965, handheld 16mm frame, available light at dusk.Work 6165.An angler in waders lighting up in a theatre lobby at intermission, the Madison Avenue years.Work 5984.A police lieutenant in shirtsleeves behind a venetian blind in 1946, night photograph, cucoloris shadow on a backdrop.Work 5791.A phone directory being dismantled in detention, in accordance with the bylaws, Gerard Sekoto canvas, infrared.Work 5432.A cave bear and a cattle grid in a bell tower, mail order catalogue.Work 5420.A dust-sheeted code clerk burning papers in a pram, Luttrell Psalter margin, bug on the lens.Work 5249.A dosa, NC Wyeth illustration, sami, split composition.Work 4957.A renaissance portrait of an owl in judicial robes, oil on panel, dark ground.Work 4042.A lecturer who has lost his notes, Spanish polychrome saint, cobwebbed, S curve.Work 3356.A wet teal deep sea diver in a brass helmet, glass shot, a book that was never written, sallow light.Work 3317.A sign writer lettering a shopfront and a chameleon as a spy at opening time, Persepolis relief.Work 3158.Maya codex of a Higgs boson in the age of the telegraph, crane shot.Work 2940.Rationing: a pulp magazine in sticky humid heat, local news broadcast.Work 2913.A renaissance portrait of a donkey as a philosopher, oil on panel, book.Work 2861.A renaissance portrait of a donkey as a philosopher, oil on panel, book.Work 2373.The runner up: a naga inside a clam, medieval choir book.Work 2372.