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A collection of images has been carefully selected by a team of philosophers who have identified visuals that can be used to spark class discussions or form the basis of a research paper. Images address issues such as the nature of aesthetic judgement, the status of art, and the place of arts within society.


Aaliyah In Concert

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Aboriginal Art Gallery

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Aerial view of river

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Alabama Tenant Farmer Wife (1936) by Walker Evans

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Alexandre-François Desportes, Still Life with Dressed Game, Meat, and Fruit (1734)

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Alexei Lubimov

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Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe — Neck (1921)

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Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe's Hands, 1917

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Alisha Wormsley, There Are Black People in the Future (2018)

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Amanda Gorman at President Biden's 2021 inauguration

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The Amityville Horror (1977)

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Andres Serrano's Piss Christ

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Approved Bechdel Test

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Artist Hiding Behind Aquarelle of a Dachshund

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Arturo Di Modica, Charging Bull

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Bath number of the weekly newspaper Het Leven. Photomontage. 1932.

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Batman dances the 'Batusi'

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Being John Malkovich

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Bela Lugosi as Dracula

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The Belvedere Hermes (aka the Antinous Belvedere)

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Benedict Cumberbatch and Robert Downey Jr.

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The Birth of a Nation (1913)

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Blue and Brown Patterned Navaho Pottery

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Bronze bust, Crowned Ooni (traditional ruler) of the Ife Kingdom (700-900 CE), present-day Nigeria

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Bronze horse, Greece. c. 470 BCE? 100-10 BCE? Modern forgery?

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Bruce Lee in The Green Hornet

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Cadillac Ranch

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Cadillac Ranch (1974)

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Can opener

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Carlos Mencia during Comedy Central's Last Laugh '05

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CBGBs in 1983.

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CFP National Championship

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Chadwick Boseman at the Black Panther European Premiere

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Chanel, patent leather bag (21st century)

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Chiapas tote bag

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Chinese fish head soup, Shaanxi Province, China

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Christmas Sweater Man

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Clay idol of Ganesh on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi

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Corie Mattie's Be More Like Betty

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Daily Life In Dublin

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David Malangi Daymirringu,first nations artist painting the Milmildjark dreaming on a bark, Northern Territories

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Denis Leary - Rescue Me Comedy Tour 2 opening night

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Diego Velásquez, The Waterseller of Seville, c. 1620, oil on canvas, 106.7 x 81 cm

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The Dinner Party (1979) by Judy Chicago

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Dioskourides of Samos, Strolling Masked Musicians, 2nd century BC, limestone and marble tesserae, 41.5 x 43.5 cm

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Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)

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Edgar Degas, The Little Dancer Aged Fourteen (1978-1881)

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El marxismo dara la salud a los enfermos (Marxism Will Give Health to the Sick) (1954) by Frida Kahlo

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Elvis Presley's 'Jungle Room'

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Emma Stone in Aloha (2015)

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Ere ibeji figures.

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Evian Water Advertisement

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The Exorcist (1973)

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Exterior Glenora Inn & Distillery in Cape Breton

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Fahrenheit 451

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A far-off impossible triangle

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Fearless Girl faces Charging Bull

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A femail artist in her studio

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Female bodybuilding contestant, Walter's Open Dutch Championship Bodybuilding and Fitness (October 2014)

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Fifteenth L.H. District (1898)

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Film still from Dersu Uzula (1975)

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Fire Hydrant Manhole Cover in Tokyo

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First Nations Totem Poles, Stanley Park, Vancouver

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Flamingo Man

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Fountain by Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), 1917

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Frances Flora Bond Palmer, “Rounding a Bend” on the Mississippi – The Parting Salute (1866)

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Frank Stella, Mas o Menos (1964)

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The Gardens of Versailles

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Ghost in the Shell (2017)

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Gilbert and George exhibition, White Cube gallery, Bermondsey Street, London, England (2017)

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The Golden Spiral

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The Good Earth (1937)

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Gourmet Burger

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Grand Theft Auto IV

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Great Dixter garden and house

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Greater adjutant stork at Assam State Zoo

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Guerilla Knitting Street Art

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Guitar Hero

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Guo Xi's Early Spring (1072)

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Hang Zhiying (1900-1947) poster, 1930s-1940s Shanghai

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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Heavy Metal Teenage Boy

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Highlights From Sothebys Contemporary Art Sale

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Hope

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Horror Movies

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Hugo Boss, men’s fashion suits (1980s)

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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

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Imported Dutch wax print fabric used for local African-style clothes, Lome, Togo

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Impossible Truncated Pyramid

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Impression, Soleil Levant (1872) by Claude Monet

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Interior, Apple computer store, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (early 21st century)

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Interior, Shah's Mosque (aka Imam Mosque), Tehran, Iran (completed 1809)

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Interior, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, England (est. 1813)

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Interior, St. Johann Nepomuk Church (aka the Asam Church), Munich, Upper Bavaria, Germany (1733-1746)

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Interior, Terminal Three, Beijing Capital Airport (completed 2008)

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Interior, The Temple of Heaven (Qi Nian Dian), Beijing (completed 1420)

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Interior, Whitefield Chapel, Bethesda School for Boys, Savannah, Georgia, USA (1918-1925)

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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

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Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin, Countess Mordvinov's Forest (1981)

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Jackson Pollock, Reflection on the Big Dipper (1947)

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Japanese Kintsugi bowl

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Japanese woman in traditional clothes with umbrella, hand-tinted photograph (late nineteenth century)

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Jazz pianist Thelonious Monk performs in 1970.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat, Notary (1983)

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Jena Sterbak, Vanitas: Flesh dress for anorexic albinos

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Johannes Vermeer, Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window (1657-9), after restoration.

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John Frederick Kensett, Lake George (1869)

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Jon Hamm as Don Draper in Mad Men

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Jumping on the bed

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Kabuki actors play the role of 47 Ronin (Seichū gishi den)

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Kasimir Malevich's Black Square (1915)

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Katharina Grosse, It Wasn't Us

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Katharina Grosse, It Wasn't Us

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Kew Gardens, Richmond-upon-Thames, UK. William Chambers, ten-storey octagonal Pagoda (1761)

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Kristen Visbal, Fearless Girl

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Kurt Wenner, Dies Irae

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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (c. 1558) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

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Learning To Dance Through Labanotation

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Leni Riefenstahl directing Triumph of the Will

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Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa (1503) at the Louvre Museum

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Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi (c. 1500)

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Lesser Adjutant

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Liberian African tribal mask from Dan people. National Anthropology Museum

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Liberian mask

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Line for Star Wars: Episode I

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Little Sparta, Pentland Hills, Scotland. Ian Hamilton Finlay and Sue Finlay, garden (1966-ongoing)

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Local Landmarks

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Luis Barragán's equestrian estate and fountain

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MAD Architects, Exterior view, Chaoyang Park Plaza, Beijing, China (completed 2017)

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The Male Spotted Bowerbird Attracts a Female to his Bower

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Mamma Mia!

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Manhole cover at Tokyo University campus (the characters read “Tokyo University” and “electricity”)

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Marcel Duchamp, Fountain (1917), replica Tate Modern, London, UK

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Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456) (ca. 1470) by Hans Memling

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Masterpiece Cakeshop’s Non-Wedding Cakes

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Masterpiece Cakeshop’s Wedding Cakes

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Michael Jackson

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Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

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Mirei Shigemori, Tofukuji Temple garden, Kyoto (1939)

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Mississippi River and Soldier's Home, St. Paul, Minn. (1898)

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Mr Blobby

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The Müller-Lyer Lines

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Native American, Hopi Kachina Doll on Red Wooden Board

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Natsupoi and AZM compete at World Wonder Ring Stardom. Tokyo, Japan, 2021

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The Necker Cube

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Neon signs, Busan, South Korea (early 21st century)

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Nickelback performs at the iHeartRadio Theater

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Nippon Budokan, venue for World Wonder Ring Stardom at Nippon Budokan

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Norman Akers, Okesa II

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Open Casket (2016) by Dana Schutz

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Oscar Reutersvärd, Brown Impossible Stairs

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Oscar Reutersvärd, OPUS 1

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Pablo Picasso, Bust of a Woman or Sailor - study for the Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)

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Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar in an Armchair, 1939

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Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles D'Avignon(1907)

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Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselle D'Avignon (1907)

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Paintings by Han van Meegeren

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Park Bench

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Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece (432 BCE)

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Paul Cézanne, Landscape at Auvers (1873)

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Paul Cézanne, Woman with a Coffee Pot, c. 1895, oil on canvas, 130.5 x 96.5 cm

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Performance of Samuel Beckett's Endgame at the Duchess Theatre in London, England

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Peter Paul Rubens, Disembarkation at Marseilles (1622-1625), detail

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Philip Johnson, Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building and public plaza, New York City, US (completed 1958)

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Photomontage of politicians

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Piero Manzoni, Artist's Shit, edition of 90 (1961)

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Pieter de Hooch, A Woman Peeling Apples, c. 1663, oil on canvas, 71 x 54 cm

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Pork sausages, new potatoes, cabbage, marrow and onion gravy

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The Portland Vase, cameo glass, Roman (c. 1-25 CE)

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Portrait of Kangxi Emperor by anonymous court artists

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Portrait of Marcel Duchamp (1930)

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Portrait of person playing with games console

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Poster for Get Out(2017)

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Poster for The Conjuring (2013)

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Prada Marfa (2005) by Elmgreen and Dragset

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Prawn cocktail

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Pro wrestlers in action at BODYSLAM! Pro-Wrestling

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Pro wrestlers in action at BODYSLAM! Pro-Wrestling. Copenhagen, Denmark, 2018

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Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, Kent. Derek Jarman, garden (1980s-ongoing)

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Pro-wrestling 'heel', Skye Smitson makes her entrance for “Wrestle Queendom 3”

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Public art on subway wall, St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia

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Rabbit-Duck (Kaninchen und Ente)

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The Railway Station (1862) by William Powell Frith

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Reclaimed Land from Coal Surface Mining at Black Thunder Mine

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Reconstruction of a segment of the west pediment of the Temple of Aphaia, (c. 500 BCE) showing the original polychromy

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Richard Prince's Untitled (2007)

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Robert Mapplethorpe self-portrait at the Corcoran Gallery of Art

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Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)

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Robin Williams on 'The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson'

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Rolleiflex Twin Lens Reflex Camera

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Roman Polanski in Krakow

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Ronald McDonald

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Rousham Gardens

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Sad Young Man in a Train by Marcel Duchamp

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Salmon and tuna sushi on black slate plate

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Sculptor Ignacio Villanueva Works On Huichol Art Amidst Coronavirus Pandemic

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Sculpture by Brian MacKay and Ahmad Abas in Perth, Western Australia

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Seafood meal, Spiseshuset Restaurant, Odense, Denmark

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Series I White & Blue Flower Shapes (1919) by Georgia O'Keeffe

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Silhouette of Winston Churchill

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Singer's mask, Ivory Coast, Africa (1st half of the 20th century)

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Smoked salted sheep's head, a traditional delicacy in Norway

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Smoking pipe

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SNL's Kenan Thompson Hosts The TripRewards Ultimate Hot Wing Eating Championship - May 21, 2007

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A square circle viewed from the side

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Stereo-daguerreotype of a young woman, c 1853.

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Still from Highlander 2: The Quickening

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Still life oil painting showing colorful flowers in the vase

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Stowe Landscape Gardens, Buckinghamshire, UK. James Gibb, Queen’s Temple (1742-48)

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Stranger than Fiction

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Street art in Birmingham, UK

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A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat

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Supercell thunderstorm at sunset near Lamar, Colorado

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Superman (1948)

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Surrealism

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Swedish Stamps

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Sylvain Helaine

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Taco Bell Beef Crunchy Taco.

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Tate's King Lear

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Tattoo artist David A. Statler tattoos Disney fan George C. Reiger

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Tattoo Artist Ngoc in Hanoi, Vietnam

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Tattoo by Ael Lim

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Tattoo by Thanks Aanderton

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Thomas Gainsborough, Mr. and Mrs. Andrews (1750)

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Tilda Swinton and Benedict Cumberbatch in Doctor Strange (2016)

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Tim, 2006 - 2008, tattooed skin, lifesize

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Tim, 2006 - 2008, tattooed skin, lifesize

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Titan attacks El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori during the New Japan Pro-Wrestling 'Road To Power Struggle'

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Tjungkara Ken, Kungkarangkalpa tjukurpa (Seven Sisters dreaming), a self-portrait

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Tlingit Wood Carver

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Tokyo University campus (the characters read “First High School” and “electricity”)

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Tony Smith, Free Ride (cardboard model)

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Traditional Japanese-style Tea House (constructed 1960s), Huntington Library, San Marino CA, USA

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Ugliest Dog Contest

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Ugly dog

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UK Daily Life 2021

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Under the Wave off Kanagawa (ca. 1830–32) by Katsushika Hokusai

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Untitled (Blue Placebo) (1991) by Felix Gonzales-Torres

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Untitled by Agnes Martin at Sotheby’s, London

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Valentine's Day

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Very colorful children's painting

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The Veteran in a New Field (1865)

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The Visual Cone

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Vivian Maier

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Waikato Swamp Lands, North Island, New Zealand

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Wang Yuanzhang, shan-shui (mountains and water) landscape painting, Qing Dynasty (19th century)

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Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851)

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Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer

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The Wedding of Charlie Craig and David Mullins

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Weird Al Yankovic

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White vintage bicycle

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William Powell Frith, The Railway Station (1862), detail. Engraving by Francis Holl (1868)

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Woman with itchy nose

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Women in local African-style clothes, Saint Louis, Senegal (2017)

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World Beard and Moustache Championships competitor, 2007

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World Wildlife Fund (WWF) logo

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Wristwatch shop, Fethiye Market, Turkey (21st century)

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Yarn bomb tree in Rotorua

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The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)

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Yinka Shonibare, The Townley Venus and Discobulus (after Naukydes), installation at the Royal Academy, London (2017)

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Young man wearing a Kimono and carrying an umbrella on Japan day, Düsseldorf (2009)

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Zen-Buddhist Garden, Tōfuku-ji Temple, Kyōto (15th Century)

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‘Studio 42’ Olivetti typewriter, designed by Alexander Schawinsky (1936)

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“Banana Lady Picture” axis, Qing Dynasty

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“Struggle to Increase the Mechanization of Agriculture.” Chinese poster, 1971

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