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Souls, Inc.
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This poster was created for Komar and Melamid’s We Buy and Sell Souls, a conceptual art project the Soviet artists launched soon after their emigration to the United States. They formed a corporation…

Contributor:

Vitaly Komar, Vitaly Komar

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Date:

1979

Subjects:

Art, Afterlife, Politics, Satire

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Performing Arts
Poster of giant apple with worm hovering over two twin skyscrapers and smaller skyscrapers and English text on the left reading, "We Buy and Sell Souls."
Ivory Cloisonné Relief with the Egyptian God Horus
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This leaf-shaped ivory relief from Samaria depicts Horus as a child sitting on a lotus flower. The lotus was a symbol of regeneration, and because, in Egyptian belief, each pharaoh was considered an…

Places:

Samaria, Land of Israel (Samaria, Israel)

Date:

Iron Age IIA–IIB, 9th–8th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Monarchy, Ecology, Afterlife, Angels, demons & deities

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Decorative Arts
Carved leaf-shaped ivory relief of child sitting on a lotus flower.