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Pregnancy Dolls of Edo: Curiosity, Education, and Spectacle
In the bustling streets of Edo (present-day Tokyo) during the 18th and 19th centuries, entertainment took many forms, from kabuki theatre...


Danzig Baldaev and the Art of Russian Criminal Tattoos
Danzig Baldaev, born in 1925 in Ulan-Ude, Buryatiya, Russia, led a life immersed in the dark complexities of Soviet repression and the underworld of criminal prisons. His journey into the world of Russian criminal tattoos began in a most unlikely way. As the son of a so-called "enemy of the people," Baldaev's early years were marked by displacement, orphanages, and the deep scars left by Stalin ’s purges. Yet, after World War II , fate directed him into the cold, harsh envi


Ernst Haeckel’s Sublime Drawings of Flora and Fauna: A Meeting of Art and Science
If you’ve ever come across the tension between scientists and philosophers , you might be forgiven for assuming the two fields have...
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