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2026-01-07

Orang Ikan wants to be The Defiant Ones with a monster during WWII, and that’s exactly the problem. When history is already monstrous, allegory turns into evasion. Instant camaraderie, frictionless enemies, and a Godzilla-lite distraction flatten real atrocities into set dressing.
#OrangIkan #MonsterMovie #WWII #FilmCriticism #Allegory #HistoricalCinema #CreatureFeature #WarFilms #BMovie #Cinema
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/28/the-architecture-of-historical-absence-a-cinematic-and-historiographical-analysis-of-orang-ikan/

Uncle Sam's Dream of Conquest and Carnage - Caused by Reading the Jingo Newspapers (1895) by Udo Keppler, from Puck, v. 38, no. 975.

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/58628c60-e36a-4b47-b8ca-42c590706e52

#satire #caricatures #newspapers #cartoons #allegory #politics #war #art #publicdomain

#allegory

Hattie, Emmett, Georgia, and Hunter started planning their expedition. They had heard that the CEO of Aztec Sports offered a huge prize for anyone who could take a picture of the edge of the Earth and prove the world was flat.
What a no-brainer!
They wanted to be first. They wanted to win.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/innocence-and-the-flat-earth-society-b3ba54c83664

#LGBTQ #Transgender #FlatEarth #Allegory #Fiction #QueerFiction

Illustration by Wilhelm Dilich, from Historische Beschreibung der Kindtauf des Fräuleins Elisabeth zu Hessen (1598).

Source: @bsbmuenchen

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/015f1f04-8c84-45a0-a845-4f777cd756c6

#watercolours #royalty #costumes #severed-heads #botanical-art #giants #allegory #flowers #beheading #knights #plants #art #publicdomain

Illustration of the commemorative events held for Elisabeth of Hessen’s christening.

Illustration by Wilhelm Dilich, from Historische Beschreibung der Kindtauf des Fräuleins Elisabeth zu Hessen (1598).

Source: @bsbmuenchen

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/3570c3bc-f144-4539-8d1a-dfb3802dfa3d

#watercolours #royalty #costumes #botanical-art #processions #allegory #pageantry #parties #horses #flowers #knights #plants #art #publicdomain

So happy to share this new little publication! I've been thinking about #Spenser, #allegory, and #anime for a decade now, and trying to process altogether too much information, so it's nice to see a small part of that thinking out in the world. Huge thanks to the editors for their careful engagement with my argument and for their patience in helping me sort out the key terms.
https://www.spenserreview.org/article/id/210/

Illustration by Wilhelm Dilich, from Historische Beschreibung der Kindtauf des Fräuleins Elisabeth zu Hessen (1598).

Source: @bsbmuenchen

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/abf6c4e9-658b-45ed-b13f-edc82e9a2858

#watercolours #royalty #costumes #botanical-art #processions #allegory #pageantry #parties #horses #flowers #knights #chariots #plants #art #publicdomain

Frontispiece to Athanasius Kircher's *China Illustrata* (1667) by Athanasius Kircher, from China Illustrata
.

Source: Library of the University of Seville / Flickr: The Commons

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/0b92de90-0624-4114-b81a-c113fde74383

#buddha #crosses #orientalism #buddhism #allegory #shields #art #publicdomain

“Boredom and Mediocrity Engaged in Tiresome Discourse” • #Watercolor on board 12” x 10” ••• framed 13” x 11”

#mastoart #fediart #fineart #artist #art #artistsonmastodon #allegory #satire #humor #originalart #noai #darkhumor

“Boredom and Mediocrity Engaged in Tiresome Discourse” is a watercolor painting with two creatures apparently engaged in heated conversation while in the background a small figure observes from the balcony of an old building.

“Aspiration Grieving the Inevitable Path of Obsolescence” • #Watercolor on board 10” x 12” ••• framed 11” x 13”

#mastoart #fediart #fineart #artist #art #artistsonmastodon #allegory #satire #humor #originalart #noai #darkhumor

“Aspiration Grieving the Inevitable Path of Obsolescence” is a watercolor painting of a narrow pathway with a dinosaur looking back at a distressed figure.

Today's pick: An Allegory of the Old and New Testaments (c. 1532 - 1535) - Hans Holbein the Younger. #art #Holbein #Allegory

https://www.artbible.info/art/large/543.html

In the next issue of Schmalk magazine: Michaelina Wautier’s Triumph of Bacchus (1650) meets modern politics.

Our author Giorgio Vasari writes an allegorical poem connecting Bacchus—the god of intoxication and collective frenzy—to the spectacle of 2025’s world stage.

From divine ecstasy to political delirium, the procession continues.

#Schmalk #MichaelinaWautier #Bacchus #ArtHistory #Culture #Politics #Allegory #Philosophy #CulturalCritique #Postmodernism #VisualCulture