Winter Dancers

Group of Winter Dancers – Qagyuhl, Edward S. Curtis, c1914

The Real Moon

The Next Moon

The First Moon

Hawk Made a Light By Striking the Flints Together, and Set Fire to the Ball

Hawk made a light by striking the flints together, and set fire to the ball, Charles Livingston Bull, c. 1918

A House for North Wind

Away up on the top of a mountain, he made a house for North Wind, Charles Livingston Bull, c. 1918



"Then Raven made North Wind also. He wouldn't tell how he did that, either. But away up on the top of a mountain, he made a house for North Wind.
It had ice all over the roof, and icicles hanging down from the eaves. There was snow everywhere.

Then Raven went into North Wind's house and said, 'Your house is all white.' And that is why high mountains are white with snow, even to this day."

From Raven and the Winds in Old Crow and His Friends - Animal Adventures Based Upon Indian Myths Katharine B. Judson, 1918

Three Little Indians

Three Little Indians (Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada), Charles W. Cushman, Sep. 1938

Two Little Indians

Two Little Indians (Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada), Charles W. Cushman, Sep. 1938

Canadian Lynx

Canadian Lynx, John James Audubon, 1860

Black American Wolf

Black American Wolf, John James Audubon, 1845-48

Black Vulture

Black Vulture or Carrion Crow, John James Audubon, 1831

Hooping Crane

Hooping Crane, John James Audubon, 1836

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron, John James Audubon, 1836

Roseate Spoonbill

Roseate Spoonbill, John James Audubon, 1836

Blue Heron

Blue Crane or Heron, John James Audubon, 1836

Scarlet Ibis

Scarlett Ibis, R. Havell, 1837, after John James Audubon

American Flamingo

The Birds of America: American Flamingo, John James Audubon, 1838

Family Grave

A Family Grave Scaffold, Richard Throssel, Crow Agency, Montana, 1905

Burial Platform

A Burial Platform – Apsaroke (The grave of Hairy Wolfs wife), Edward S. Curtis, 1908

Moving

Moving – Apsaroke, Edward S. Curtis, 1908

Apsaroke Woman Carrying Firewood

Going to Camp, Edward S. Curtis, 1908

Apsaroke Woman Carrying Firewood

Winter – Apsaroke, Edward S. Curtis, 1908

Apsaroke Scout

The Scout in Winter – Apsaroke, Edward S. Curtis, 1908

For a Winter Campaign

For a Winter Campaign - Apsaroke, Edward S. Curtis, 1908 (man on left identified as Hunts to Die)

I Like America and America Likes Me V

I Like America and America Likes Me, Josep Beuys, 1974. Photograph by Caroline Tisdall

I Like America and America Likes Me – American Beuys

American Beuys: I Like America & America Likes Me
Essay from 1990 by David Levi Strauss from his book between dog & wolf, Essays on Art and Politics



.../ Upon arrival in the room with the coyote, Beuys began an orchestrated sequence of actions to be repeated over and over in the next three days.
A triangle is struck three times to begin the sequence. This triangle that Beuys wears pendant around his neck is the alchemical sign for fire (dry,
fiery, choleric warmth), which ancient glacial Eurasian shamans sorely needed. It is also a sign for the feminine element (earthy & mercurial)
and for the creative intellect, and it is the Pythagorean symbol for wisdom. Striking its three sides three times, Beuys calls himself, Coyote, and
the Audience to order.

After the triangle is struck, a recording of loud turbine engine noise is played outside the enclosure, signifying "indetermined energy" and calling
up a chaotic vitality. At this point, Beuys pulls on his gloves, reminiscent of the traditional bear-claw gloves worn by "master of animals" shamans
such as those depicted on the walls of Trois Freres, and gets into his fur pelt/felt, wrapping it around himself so that he disappears into it with the
flashlight. He then extends the crook of his staff out from the opening at the top of the felt wrap, as an energy conductor and receptor, antenna or
lightning rod.

Beuys bends at the waist and follows the movements of the coyote around the room, keeping the receptor/staff pointed in the coyote's direction
at all times.

When the beam of the flashlight is glimpsed from beneath the felt, we recognize the figure of the Hermit from the Tarot – an old man with a staff,
holding a lighted lamp half-hidden by the great mantle which envelopes him./...


Full text here.

I Like America and America Likes Me IV

I Like America and America Likes Me, Joseph Beuys, 1974. Photograph by Caroline Tisdall.

I Like America and America Likes Me III

I Like America and America Likes Me, Joseph Beuys, 1974. Photograph by Caroline Tisdall.

I Like America and America Likes Me II

I Like America and America Likes Me, Joseph Beuys, 1974. Photograph by Caroline Tisdall.

I Like America and America Likes Me

I Like America and America Likes Me, Joseph Beuys, 1974 (felt blanket, flashlight, shepherd's staff, copies of the Wall Street Journal - delivered daily, live coyote)
Photographs by Caroline Tisdall.

I Saw Myself as a Donkey

Warning! Enter at your own risk. Do not touch, do not feed, no smoking, no photographs, no dogs, thank you., Maurizio Cattelan, 1994.
(donkey, crystal chandelier, dimensions variable)

'My first idea was too expensive. My second idea was not possible to realize. So I saw myself as a donkey.'

Love Lasts Forever

Love Lasts Forever, Maurizio Cattelan, 1999. (image from here)

The first, they said, should be sweet like love; the second bitter, like life; and the third soft, like death.

The first, they said, should be sweet like love; the second bitter, like life; and the third soft, like death, Maurizio Cattelan, 1998

Untitled (On the Sixth Day)

Untitled, from On the Sixth Day, Alessandra Sanguinetti, 1996-2004

A Little Death

A Little Death, Sam Taylor-Wood, 2002

Dead Hare

Still Life with Dead Hare and Partridges, Dirk Valkenburg, 1717

Wombat and Watermelon

Wombat and Watermelon, Marian Drew, 2006

Still Life (On the Sixth Day)

Still Life, from the series On the Sixth Day, Alessandra Sanguinetti, 2006

Still Life with Dead Birds

Still Life with Dead Birds, Christoffel van den Berghe, 1624

The Dog and the Wolf

Untitled #24 (From the series: The Dog and the Wolf), Laura Letinsky, 2009

Vanitas Still Life

Vanitas Still Life, Gerrit van Vught, c. 1658-97 (oil on panel, 9,3 x 12 cm)